Indiscriminate slaughter.
1In 1656 a general battue for priests took place all over Ireland.
2As for us, we do not confound a battue with a persecution.
3On page 321, the word battue is not a typographical error.
4So he stepped back into the alley and waited until the battue was over.
5Of the grand battue, and what the young Duke and Sidonia resolved on there.
6As the battue promised chiefly deer and hares, the guns were loaded with balls.
7For the second battue I went with Comte de B.
8I looked towards Seguin, thinking that he might interfere to prevent the barbarous battue.
9It was to have been a battue, he explained.
10It was a horrible sight.... A battue of helpless things driven savagely out of shelter.
11The Spaniards had a regular battue there; killing deer, hares, and rabbits till they were tired.
12On the day of the sixth of June, a battue of the sewers had been ordered.
13The dispatches call this battue a "battle." In what way was it a battle?
14During the first battue eight wild-boars were sighted.
15It would be a battle, not a battue.
16I shall fill the house for a battue!