Slasher-film fare

Usage examples of carnage.

Wings and buds of all the hues which aesthetic painters love to blend, crossed one another and intermixed in chastest harmony, while the sailors glided on into a phantasmagoria of loveliness and peace, yet bearing with them the horror of that awful carnage behind.

Rama scanned the sky and saw hundreds, perhaps thousands of the flying creatures flocking to the carnage, calling to each other exultantly in their protohuman speech.

In the midst of chaos and carnage, one of the fanciest houses had been readied for our arrival.

But mostly he was home, this man, home to living, home to Joys, home to hate, an easy, open man, not closed and mean unto the world - good, a reliable, large man, one who would at the littlest need of a carnage put his Stronghold on the ready footing of total war-all out!

Carlson rejoiced over the carnage that ensued, though a strict Malthusian might have considered it as a long-overdue pruning.

No one had ever attempted an ambush like it, and so no one had any kind of meterstick to estimate the carnage such an attack might wreak.

To attempt a portrayal of that era and that land, and leave out the blood and carnage, would be like portraying Mormondom and leaving out polygamy.

French artillery, and the general assault, in spite of its carnage, produced no greater gain for the Germans than a ravine on the edge of the Poivre hill.

The evening air sounded as if it were ripping as archers rained down a hail of arrows on cavalrymen struggling to escape the carnage.

Some men, seeing a chance to escape the carnage, helped the wounded towards the bandsmen and the surgeons.

The two guards in the rear had their guns up and, for a moment, it looked like carnage was going to spread all down the length of the bus. Vickers was on his feet and shouting, facing the rear guards and waving his arms.

Those who did were quickly relieved of them by a detachment of leather-armored women, who soon had all those men fortunate enough to escape the blazing carnage stripped of armor, wrist-bound, yoked in coffles of twenty head and jogging campward, spurred by judicious pricks of saber or wolf spear.

Toby and Flynn, standing alone in the sea of carnage and broken bodies.

Most of the gnomes eventually forgot all about the threat of imminent carnage, and they went off to play hide-and-go-teleport and other remarkably stupid gnome games.

The seventh of their number bore tattoos all over his torso, twisted animals amid scenes of battle and carnage, griffins eating deer, lions rending hapless men, and a belled rider mounted on an eight-legged horse riding over corpses.