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Meanings of wholesale slaughter in English

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Usage of wholesale slaughter in English
1
What an odd amusement it seems, going out to commit wholesale slaughter.
The Duke's Children
2
The bare idea of such wholesale slaughter was revolting to a Christian world.
Tracks of a Rolling Stone
3
He had no sort of qualms about the wholesale slaughter of the inefficient.
The Tree of Heaven
4
He had been obliged to wit-ness the wholesale slaughter of the Napoleonic battle-fields.
The Story of Mankind
5
One would think she fairly exulted in this wholesale slaughter of her subjects.
The Midnight Queen
6
Such scenes of wholesale slaughter are not pleasant reading in this milder age.
The Beginnings of New England / Or the Puritan Theocracy in its ...
7
Sometimes a hundred or more elephants are simultaneously destroyed in this wholesale slaughter.
Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Afric...
8
Here, as usual, Comanche medicine detoured what might have been a wholesale slaughter.
Empire of the Summer Moon
9
It was the pretext of a duel, but it was more wholesale slaughter.
Ruthless
10
The horror of this wholesale slaughter has not disturbed the Government at all!
Paris Talks
11
But this wholesale slaughter scarcely lessened the compact, fishy squadrons.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel
12
They then commit a wholesale slaughter among sheep and cattle.
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
13
The stories of wholesale slaughter in the earlier days of the Republic are very numerous.
Cetywayo and his White Neighbours / Remarks on Recent Events in ...
14
In all this tumult, this wholesale slaughter, the individual and his feelings are utterly lost.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier Wa...
15
Did not God use plagues and a wholesale slaughter to solve the Egyptian race problem?
The Hindered Hand; or, The Reign of the Repressionist
16
You might raise a zombie to kill one or two people but not wholesale slaughter.
The Laughing Corpse
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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