Roman Empire, and the death-roll included some British martyrs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference

The long death-roll among Negroes contains an excessive number of infants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference

My reply was a death-roll, naming the five victims, and the hurts of the ten wounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference

The death-roll on either side was so tremendous as to prove this contention up to the hilt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference

The death-roll amounted to something like fifty hoplites of the Abydenians, and of the rest two hundred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellenica] Reference

In the poorer quarters of the town, especially near the docks, the dreadful death-roll lengthened every day.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference

St. Petersburg fashionables, yawning over the printed death-roll, languidly wonder why the lower classes are so careless of their health.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

The death-roll from 1887 to 1897 is exceptionally heavy; in every department of science, art, literary and religious life, the loss has been great.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain and Her Queen] Reference

The later death-roll of revolutionaries has fewer and fewer executions in it and an increasing tale of assassinations and deaths in public conflict.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference

The total death-roll, the largest in Cambrian records, was 17, and the victims included one of the most esteemed of the directorate, Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway] Reference

The officer with the death-roll read Dolores 'name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Which? or, Between Two Women] Reference

The more there are in it, the bigger the death-roll!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jimgrim and Allah's Peace] Reference

The death-roll amounted to something like fifty hoplites of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellenica] Reference

The death-roll of the victims is known to the Recording Angel alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Paris] Reference

"There's been quite a pause in the death-roll," the Widow Criswell observed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bookful of Girls] Reference

The death-roll of December rose to 10,665, against 4214 in December the previous year.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71] Reference

The German advance into France was spectacular, but it was paid for by an appalling death-roll.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement] Reference

A volley rang out in the night air, and three more corpses were added to the death-roll of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Track of the Troops] Reference

Had it not been for a gentleman of France the death-roll of the Company had assuredly not stood at zero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wandering Heath] Reference

It was difficult to see how human beings could survive such awful injuries, and, indeed, our death-roll was a long one.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Surgeon in Belgium] Reference

As the country grew more thickly settled, on the way to Bridgetown, so was the suffering more intense and the death-roll heavier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plotting in Pirate Seas] Reference

Coast, during which more or less progress was made, accompanied with no little sacrifice, and a large death-roll of missionaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time] Reference

Too much stress should not be laid upon the exact figures, for there were no doubt local conditions that affected the death-roll.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Recent Earthquakes] Reference

The total death-roll, "primarily women and children", was expected to reach 25,000; fewer than a hundred of the dead were servicemen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pestiside.hu] Reference

The death-roll, including those who fell in the second fight and the final flight, must have numbered two hundred and fifty slain, or thereabouts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellenica] Reference

Herod class, as grimly shown by its total death-roll of over twelve thousand, compared with only a little over six thousand to the credit of scarlet fever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preventable Diseases] Reference

The city of New York's death-roll, for instance, from tuberculosis, per one thousand living, is some thirty-five per cent less than it was thirty years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preventable Diseases] Reference

Every page of history and the annalist of every age, tell of the horrors of wars and the mighty death-roll of those who have fallen upon the field of sanguinary strife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,] Reference

Intestinal disorders which impede nutrition, and produce toxins at an age when the delicate tissues are most sensitive to them, were responsible for nearly the entire death-roll.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spontaneous Activity in Education] Reference

Maybe the Queen'll give us a Tommy Cooper death-roll, everyone will think it's part of the speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [News Round Up] Reference

What might the death-roll be?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darkness and Dawn] Reference

He began to call the death-roll.    From Wordnik.com.  [Which? or, Between Two Women] Reference

But even so their death-roll was enormous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies] Reference

Its death-roll far outnumbers that of any other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger] Reference

But -- you speak of ruin and a death-roll, eh? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jimgrim and Allah's Peace] Reference

"You -- you, Jimgrim -- you talk to me of ruin and a death-roll?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jimgrim and Allah's Peace] Reference