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Meanings of slain outright in English

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Usage of slain outright in English
1
A number were slain outright, and the rest scattered, disappearing in all directions.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
2
But Guthlac was slain outright, and two others of the brethren.
A Thane of Wessex: Being a Story of the Great Viking Raids into ...
3
Rogert seized all the goods and made captive the few people not slain outright.
Surrender to the will of the night
4
Over 540 of their sailors we had, as they have themselves admitted, slain outright.
Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main
5
Three were slain outright, and the fourth driven overboard.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
6
Nineteen infidels were slain outright, with twenty-three more wounded.
Frontier fury
7
The wife had been slain outright, also seven of the children; the other two might recover.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866
8
Three of our followers had been slain outright, while a fourth was lying stunned from a blow.
Micah Clarke / His Statement as made to his three grandchildren ...
9
Thus some men think that he who suffers misfortune is worse punished than he who is slain outright.
The Danish History, Books I-IX
10
But he was never slain outright.
Brotherhood of the Wolf
11
Pompilia's evidence alone is damnatory, for she was not slain outright, and lingers long enough to tell her story.
Life of Robert Browning
12
In sudden tumults they have been slain outright, and while full faith in their divinity had in no wise abated.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I
13
Two of ours were slain outright on the floor, and four of theirs, and many were hurt on either side.
The Wood Beyond the World
14
Many were slain outright in battle, others were sorely wounded, or made captive, or returned sorrowing to their own homes.
Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut
15
Three of the villains were slain outright; and the rest took to their heels and fled, glad to escape such fury.
Hero Tales
16
We have captured this vessel; Madera is wounded, if not slain outright; your father is at hand, and you are free.
The Congo Rovers: A Story of the Slave Squadron
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