Not long after this butchery another party fell upon a defenseless family in the same neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819] Reference
Actually, Kosher and Halal butchery is worse. From Wordnik.com. [The history of whaling in Japan] Reference
Security Council and the United States in halting the "butchery" in. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Seriously, that kind of butchery of the English language is approaching Sandy Crux levels. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
He called police reaction to the students 'demonstration "butchery" and described the South African. From Wordnik.com. ['I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976] Reference
A number of reasons were cited, and those reasons turned out to be true, the kind of butchery that Saddam was practicing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2006] Reference
I only chose the word "butchery" because the other characters thought of/referred to him as a butcher for his past actions. From Wordnik.com. [Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books] Reference
Four men and a pig: a lesson in Italian butchery. From Wordnik.com. [Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Metropolitan mayor terms "butchery" dispossession of assets. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The terrible butchery which is being prepared has not even a pretext. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference
Phase one focused on team skills such as butchery of fish and chicken, vegetable cuts and basic pastry preparation. From Wordnik.com. Reference
This butchery lasted about seven years from 1524 to. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
Crockett speaks of a "most bloody butchery" at Fort Mimms. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
Within half an hour after it had begun, the butchery was over. From Wordnik.com. [Despoilers of the Golden Empire] Reference
All the martyrs were now brought to the place of their butchery. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
He is actually at work doing a bit of butchery on a small warbler. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
The land was filled with weeping, for the cruel butchery was worse than war. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
All other hunting is butchery compared to the scientific sweetness of this sport. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
The soldier becomes so accustomed to human butchery that it loses many, very many, of its horrors. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference
And more than that, the stroke that cut Caffie's throat was given by a hand accustomed to butchery. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The process of butchery was a bloody, even beastly job, and Shann was shaken before it was complete. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
They were absolutely hemmed in, and what had commenced as a skirmish seemed about to become a butchery. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
It was noticed afterwards that the death by butchery of the feudal lord was passed by without a comment. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
The butchery in Kigali has died down only because, says one relief official, "there's nobody left to kill.". From Wordnik.com. [Escape From Hell] Reference
Instead he proposes big, systemwide changes, starting with the butchery of some of health care's most sacred cows. From Wordnik.com. [Health Care Made Simple] Reference
I remember many handsome and intelligent faces of men who seemed to have been born for better things than butchery. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
There was a combat, or rather a butchery, in the sole street of the town, one of the last massacres of the campaign. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He finally succeeded in arresting the butchery, not forgetting, in the midst of all, to administer baptism to the dying. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
I like to see two well-trained men engage in a fair combat, but such butchery as you have in the Coliseum is detestable. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome] Reference
Few outside Missouri would recall the 1985 World Series if it weren't for the base-path butchery of umpire Don Denkinger. From Wordnik.com. [Hey! We Wuz Robbed!] Reference
Its soldiers were at times courageous but they also stood by virtually helpless as the butchery spread across the country. From Wordnik.com. [The Deadly Sin Of Staying Neutral] Reference
Embroiled in an extramarital affair and determined to rescue her failing marriage, the author embarks on a butchery course. From Wordnik.com. [Eat, pray, cash in] Reference
With the agony that an expert feels at the unskilful butchery of a task by an amateur, he watched his mate's awkward attempts. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
So perfect was this reign of terror that not even slave-owners, in many cases, dared to protest against this wholesale butchery. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
Second, the butchery is by no means confined to Chihuahua, but occurs nationwide. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to the Editor] Reference
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