There were a lot of killings and some savage reprisals, to all accounts.

No sophistry can sap his resistance; no weakness can tempt him to savage reprisals.

The soldiers far outdid the rebels in savage reprisals.

Not ever-andcertainly not now, after the savage reprisals carried out in the seccie areas following Green Pines.

Without that leadership it was inchoate and powerless, and indeed made furtive by the constant fear of savage reprisals.

This led to Catholic civil disobedience in the North, which morphed into violence, which in turn provoked savage reprisals by Protestants.

Savage reprisals were exercised on both sides and no quarter was given in the field.

(They sometimes need to enforce this equality with savage reprisals against people who get ideas above their stations.)