Meanings of wholesale massacre in English

Even this wholesale massacre did not assuage the wrath of the corsair.

Was he attempting to prepare a wholesale massacre to avenge his son?

Had they not stained the house of God with wholesale massacre?

But that wholesale massacre was too fearful, too vast a thing!

Half a century had scarcely elapsed since the wholesale massacre of Huguenots in Florida.

For one hour this wholesale massacre continued, from which the cachalots could not escape.

The result was that a wholesale massacre followed.

But for ten years the court had regarded a wholesale massacre as the last resource of monarchy.

To avenge the insult and clear the land of Islam he organized the wholesale massacre of the Moslems of Montenegro.

As a diversion it could scarcely be improved upon-unless Florence Grace Hallman had ordered a wholesale massacre or something like that.

Similarly the wholesale massacre of the people in the English northern counties is not at all condemned by the judicious Mr. Freeman.

He first conceived the idea of the wholesale massacre of St. Bartholomew, many years before Catharine de' Medici carried it into operation.

No list of things destroyed could lend any conception of the wholesale massacre by the Germans of all objects both natural and artificial.

Secondly, the very horror with which men spoke, centuries after, of Anderida quite plainly indicates that such a wholesale massacre was exceptional, monstrous.

Fines, requisitions, petty persecutions do not strike the imagination in the same way as the burning of towns and the wholesale massacre of peaceful citizens.

I will only consent to your desperate course, for the sake of Rome, if you can prove to me that Commodus designs a wholesale massacre.