What is "massacres"

Usage examples of "massacres".

Seeing that these splendors fascinated him, but their inaccessibility saddened him, I thought it was good to convince him that his suffering was not the worst, to tell him of the torment of Andronicus with such details that they far surpassed what had been done to him, of the massacres of Crema, of prisoners with a hand, an ear, the nose cut off, I brought before his eyes images of indescribable maladies compared to which leprosy was the lesser evil, I told him how horrendously horrible were scrofula, erysipelas, St.

General, describes the reason of your measures and of the orders forbidding my army to enter Santiago for tear of massacres and revenge against the Spaniards.

Instead, T wanted to talk about the many massacres of nonwhite people in our history, which would not reinforce patriotic pride but remind us of the long legacy of racism in our country, still smoldering and needing attention.

Nowhere in my history education had 1 learned about the massacres of black people that took place again and again, amid the silence of a national government pledged, by the Constitution, to protect equal rights for all.

Neither acts of war, nor massacres, nor depredation had resulted from the numerous Messianic revivals.

The ancient Athenians had been extirpated by repeated wars and massacres and these were mere mongrels, degenerates and the descendants of slaves.

The massacres perpetrated by rats in London four years before had made companies such as this a growth industry.