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Definition of Massacring
1. massacre [v] - See also: massacre
Literary usage of Massacring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Hatzfeldt Letters: Letters of Count Paul Hatzfeldt to His Wife, Written by Paul Hatzfeldt (1905)
"... for bombarding Belleville and massacring as many as possible of the canaille
there. I am not of a sanguinary disposition, but it would be rendering a ..."
2. An impartial history of Ireland, from the period of the English invasion to by Dennis Taaffe (1811)
"The perfidious invitations to negotiate for peace, with the intent of massacring
the negotiators; as that of the O'Moores at ..."
3. Drill Book in Dictionary Work by Thomas Metcalf, Charles De Garmo (1897)
"... shuffling, giggling, struggling, pickling, trickling, coupling, rippling,
battling, whittling, whistling, jostling, puzzling, muzzling, massacring. ..."
4. Wanderings and Musings in the Valleys of the Waldenses by James Aitken Wylie (1858)
"Greater Sorrows — Composition of the massacring Army — Waldenses resolve to
Fight — Perfidy of Pianezza ..."
5. The Cabinet History of England, Civil, Military and Ecclesiastical: From the by Charles MacFarlane (1855)
"... treated cockades and deserted in thousands to the banner of King Ferdinand,
massacring such of their officers as attempted to retain or restrain them. ..."
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