Definitionn. a building where animals are butchered
Last update: August 30, 2015
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On the 8th of July, King Ferdinand arrived from Palermo, and the state trials, conducted in the most arbitrary fashion, resulted in wholesale butchery; hundreds of persons were executed, including some of the best men in the veng g country, such as the philosopher Mario Pagano, the scientist Cirillo, Manthone, the minister of war under the republic, Massa, the defender of Castel dell' Uovo, and Ettore Caraffa, the defender of Pescara, who had been captured by treachery, while thousands of others were immured in horrible dungeons or exiled. [Please select]
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Each boatload had the same tale to tell of treachery, surprise, and fiendish butchery. [Please select]
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Gordon Cumming, his butchery of elephants in Africa, 146 _n_. [Please select]
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But I do not drag the reader here merely to tell of savage sport and butchery. [Please select]
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Men were scarce after the wholesale butchery of the war, especially bachelors of Lord Taborley's class. [Please select]
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I have seen too much of ill-faith--cruelty--robbery--torture--rapine--butchery, all in the name of God. [Please select]
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But there was a fearful scene of butchery among the baggage-animals, and many unequal hand-to-hand conflicts. [Please select]
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