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Definition of Butcheries
1. butchery [n] - See also: butchery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Butcheries
Literary usage of Butcheries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington (1847)
"Yes; and I rejoice at it, hoping it will now be in our power to testify a just
abhorrence of the cruel butcheries exercised on our friends, ..."
2. Washington and His Generals: Or, Legends of the Revolution by George Lippard (1847)
"But it will take a thousand years of good deeds to wash from the History of
England, the horrid and merciless butcheries which she perpetrated in the Eight ..."
3. The Christian Recovery of Spain: Being the Story of Spain from the Moorish by Henry Edward Watts (1893)
"... butcheries OF THE KING. Blanche; when his first act was to send her away under
a strong guard to a safer prison at Siguenza. Once more master of Toledo ..."
4. Readings in Ancient History: Illustrative Extracts from the Sources by William Stearns Davis (1913)
"SENECA OK THE GLADIATORIAL butcheries Seneca, "Epistles," 7. Henderson's Translation
The following letter indicates how by the age of Nero cultured and ..."
5. The Book of Blood: An Authentic Record of the Policy Adopted by Modern Spain ...by Néstor Ponce de León by Néstor Ponce de León (1873)
"... In consideration of the recent butcheries of Cubans, American citizens and
English ... butcheries ..."
6. History of the Republican Party: Embracing Its Origin, Growth and Mission by Frank Abial Flower (1884)
"... S. Black and Charles Sumner—Ridiculous Features—Southern butcheries— Grant's
Great Majority—Poor Greeley—Grant's Successful Administration. ..."
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