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Definition of Massacred
1. massacre [v] - See also: massacre
Literary usage of Massacred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"All the male Armenians of Malatia had been taken there and massacred ; the women
and children have all been converted to Islam. No Armenian can travel in ..."
2. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1868)
"... am°ng the French/troops the ill-omened complaint 1 massacred.1 that they were
being 'massacred.' All this while, Bosquet was on the summit of the cliff ..."
3. China and the Allies by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1901)
"CHAPTER L Massacred Protestant missionaries—Boxer consideration—The warlike ...
THE number of Protestant missionaries massacred by the Chinese in the three ..."
4. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"... least regard to consequences: " Federigo de' Ricci has been so much stronger
than all of us put together that you have been massacred against our will. ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1846)
"The death of Theophilus, consular of the province of Syria, who in a time of
scarcity had been massacred by the people of Antioch, with the connivance, ..."
6. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"... by whom Toussaint is accused of having the whole of this regiment, 500 men,
massacred by his guard of honour, near the Croix des Bouquets. ..."
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