Noun : the hecatombs of modern wars. From Dictionary.com.
The downtown 'hecatomb' was millions over-budget and 8 months late; yet NYC architect wannabies had orgasms galore upon its opening. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: A $165 million homeless shelter] Reference
It would be a perfect hecatomb in the antique manner. From Wordnik.com. [Two Poets] Reference
Rogers -- would inevitably cost you a hecatomb of dinners. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841] Reference
The collection is an orderly mass grave, but it also a hecatomb. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
What a hecatomb of mouldering bones would bestrew those fields of ice!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Mount Pelion, put into it a hecatomb and with it also722 a tripod of bronze, and sailed round. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Herodotus] Reference
To say, in heroic tones, "nature demands this hecatomb of the weak; but I chooose not to supply it"?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
Start by recognizing that the hecatomb of the oil strike has had catastrophic results for the company. From Wordnik.com. [Playing PDVSA hide and seek in Venezuela] Reference
I believe, in different climes, I have already sacrificed an hecatomb to my Nemesis, in pursuance of this vow. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Fidel said many documents have been published regarding the events that put the world on the brink of a nuclear hecatomb. From Wordnik.com. [Castro Attends October Missile Crisis Conference] Reference
Polyglot iconoclasts under the aegis of heterogeneity and with a nostalgia for the exotic are making a hecatomb of our language. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Puddles Has Problems] Reference
The "Liberal Century" after having accumulated an infinity of Gordian knots, sought to cut them in the hecatomb of the World War. From Wordnik.com. [Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado] Reference
I've never quite gotten the point of the new central library, which seems more like a hecatomb to the idea of books than a practical way to make books available to the people. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: A $165 million homeless shelter] Reference
There were few families in Scotland which did not contribute to that hecatomb, whereof the memory is enshrined in the national song of lamentation, "The Flowers of the Forest". From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
Consumption had swept a hecatomb of victims from the family. From Wordnik.com. [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference
For Maupassant, Menton means a hecatomb of juvenile TB cases. From Wordnik.com. [Books, Inq. — The Epilogue] Reference
But Ulysses, meantime, came to Chrysa, bringing the sacred hecatomb. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
Make a hecatomb of the present Hamleys all at once, while you are about it. From Wordnik.com. [Wives and Daughters] Reference
They would first make a hecatomb of their hated foes, and then fall upon it. From Wordnik.com. [The Lone Ranche] Reference
He had seen the gradual upbuilding of the Hojo power on this hecatomb of victims. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
Health is to be had, say, for a calf; wealth, for a couple of yoke of oxen; a kingdom, for a hecatomb. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01] Reference
Browne climbed up on the highest rock with me a sort of flat slab, whereon you might immolate a hecatomb. From Wordnik.com. [Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales] Reference
You don't want to be part of a hecatomb because it is: a. a large-scale sacrifice or slaughter of some kind. From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
The hecatomb of the weak is enormous, but that matters little so long as the victors 'reward be effectual and certain. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Bee] Reference
Or it may be, the last entertainment is that hecatomb they call a wedding breakfast, which celebrates the triumph of a rival. From Wordnik.com. [Endymion] Reference
Baldassarre's consciousness, -- a dark deity in the inmost cell, who only seemed forgotten while his hecatomb was being prepared. From Wordnik.com. [Romola] Reference
Nestor first and to his sons vouchsafe renown, and thereafter grant to all the people of Pylos a gracious recompense for this splendid hecatomb. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
There he looked to receive his hecatomb of bulls and rams, there he made merry sitting at the feast, but the other gods were gathered in the halls of Olympian Zeus. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
Since this here front moved in yesterday, with wind and rain and once again chill air, most of the maple leaves have fallen in a hecatomb of xanthophyllic brilliance. From Wordnik.com. [Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com] Reference
Forgetful of this useless hecatomb at war's relentless shrine, America echoed the gratulations of the victors which fell with scathing power on the heart of the trembling Mary. From Wordnik.com. [Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest] Reference
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