Lexicographical Neighbors of Butcherers
Literary usage of Butcherers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Puritans, Or Protestant Non-conformists by Daniel Neal (1817)
"... and that her majesty gave it all the countenance she eould with safety : but
when these bloody butcherers over-acted their parts to such a degree, ..."
2. Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England by Cotton Mather (1853)
"Do; Trade on, ye merchants of souls, or, more truly, ye butcherers of souls;
Trade on, till the judgments of God have caused you to trade your selves into ..."
3. The Chinese Repository by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, S. W. Williams (1846)
"The head of our venerable brothers in the faith having fallen under the sword of
persecution—the butcherers ceased to immolate the Christians. ..."
4. History of Ohio: The Rise and Progress of an American State by Emilius Oviatt Randall, Daniel Joseph Ryan (1912)
"Several of the butcherers immediately seized Abraham, surnamed the Mohican, one
of the patriarchs of the converts, “whose long, flowing beard had attracted ..."
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