Indiscriminate slaughter

Usage examples of bloodshed.

By the beginning of 1915 they had accumulated a sufficient mass of evidence from the belligerent countries to convince them that great masses of people in these countries were as amazed and as anxious to end the widening bloodshed and brutalization as the neutral onlookers.

World War broke down many of the inhibitions of violence and bloodshed that had been built up during the progressive years of the nineteenth century and an accumulating number of intelligent, restless unemployed men, in a new world of motor-cars, telephones, plate-glass shop windows, unbarred country houses and trustful social habits, found themselves faced with illegal opportunities far more attractive than any legal behaviour-system now afforded them.

There might be a great deal of bloodshed before it ended, but most of the blood would be Medusan, not Manticoran, and the most likely upshot would be a powerful, permanent military presence on Medusa in place of the lightly-armed NPA troopers now stationed there.

The inevitable, plunging fall into bloodshed came presaged by refigured horror, as the intertwined ribbons of conscious life shivered to the blast of a war horn, mustering men to take arms.

It was very distressed to learn that the bureaucracy it had served had become the tool of a dictatorship, and was completely in favor of overthrowing the Protector, provided that it could be done with very little bloodshed.

Nazi leader Ludendorff now proposed a plan of his own that might still bring them victory and yet avoid bloodshed.

If anyone tells you that the arrow of recision is just a trick to reduce bloodshed .

What law has sanctioned a warfor one life, when no bloodshed was sought at Etarra?

It was too far back to Aberdeen to expect to be able to ride for assistance, enough assistance that the raiders, girl and all, might be captured without bloodshed.

I sighed and rubbed my face, willing the vision of Akkadian bloodshed to dispel.

He too wishes a settlement could be reached- to put an end to the bloodshed.

To Bima the causeway people were not a last stand, but a place for a decisive stroke to end the bloodshed.

The nearest approach to a truly Socialist state is Bolshevist Russia, that strife-ridden land of crime and bloodshed.

Before a second fusillade from either side, strenuous efforts by both Wheat and the commander of the South Carolinian skirmishers prevented any more bloodshed.

Oh, it is one continual, awful period of bloodshed from the time we break the shell until we gladly embrace the bosom of the river of mystery, the dark and ancient Iss which carries us to an unknown, but at least no more frightful and terrible existence!