Sentence examples for Great slaughter from inspiring English sources

Nothing more is heard of him until 508, when he defeated the Britons with great slaughter.

"Are physical and spiritual traces of the great slaughter still present in these places?," Huddleston asks.

In 1858 his brother Mirko, "the Sword of Montenegro," routed the Turks with great slaughter at Grahovo.

He overthrew them with great slaughter (they report above four thousand killed in the place), and then faced about against Machanidas, who was returning with his mercenaries from the pursuit.

In the morning, the 48th Indiana supported a fruitless attack that collapsed after "great slaughter," but in the midafternoon they received orders to shift to their left to assist troops under Maj.

And yet the diplomatic failures of that fateful summer led to the great slaughter of the trenches, the death of a substantial portion of the younger generation, and a virtual nervous breakdown of authority in politics and culture.

And one great Slaughter-house the warring world!

From Hunger's arm the shafts of Death are hurl' And one great Slaughter-house the warring world!

If you're somehow not familiar with the incident, on the morning of January 7, two Islamic extremists stormed the offices of a French satirical magazine and, while yelling God is Great, slaughtered 12 people targeting editors and cartoonists, but also killing a couple of police officers.

As yet, no one has been convicted of the single greatest slaughter of media workers in history.

If China tried to put ground troops across the Yalu River, MacArthur assured his commander in chief at their October 1950 meeting, there would be "the greatest slaughter".