What is "slaughtered"

Usage examples of "slaughtered".

Theophilus escaped, but the promiscuous crowd of monks and Egyptian mariners was slaughtered without pity in the streets of Constantinople.

Og and Mag, Cornelia, in our land he would have been slaughtered for what he did to you!

The Hissari mutineers had been ambushed in the square and slaughtered by the score.

The entire herd would be slaughtered at the River Vathar, for the lands beyond the forest would not sustain them.

Southward in the distance, in a blaze of afternoon sunshine, the three ruined smoldering hulks of the other carriers still floated in a line, listing crazily this way and that: slaughtered bulls, dumped outside the bullring- Gallaher hooked all the way around the fourth flattop, so as to attack out of the sinking sun.

The Moslem Turks slaughtered the Christian Armenians during the World War, but the Armenians were taking the part of the enemy, czarist Russia, and it happened in Asia Nfinor.

The Japanese army air squadrons had been slaughtered, and their bases razed.

Vortigern, being restored to the throne, accepted of a banquet from Hengist, at Stonehenge, where three hundred of his nobility were treacherously slaughtered, and himself detained captive.

Some of the unfortunate sufferers he ordered to be sewed up in the hides of slaughtered animals, others to be exposed to wild beasts, others again to be beaten to death with clubs.

We are assured that the valiant emperor threw himself into the River Hebrus, accompanied only by twelve horsemen, and that by the effort or terror of his invincible arm, he broke, slaughtered, and put to flight a host of a hundred and fifty thousand men.

Athens itself resembled the bleeding and empty skin of a slaughtered victim.

The last king of the Alemanni was slain in the field, and his people were slaughtered or pursued, till they threw down their arms, and yielded to the mercy of the conqueror.

Arian clergy, were slaughtered at the foot of their own altars by the defenders of the Catholic faith.

The measure of their grievances was full: they pronounced Maurice unworthy to reign, expelled or slaughtered his faithful adherents, and, under the command of Phocas, a simple centurion, returned by hasty marches to the neighborhood of Constantinople.

In this moment of hesitation and delay, the last of the Sassanian kings was overtaken and slaughtered by the Turkish cavalry, in the nineteenth year of his unhappy reign.