Three times a day a cloud of slaughter rises over the camp; And all night long the hour-drums shake their chilly booming, Until white swords can be seen again, spattered with red blood.
But he was dead enough, for all that, being both shot and drowned, and was food for fish in the very place where he had designed my slaughter.
2001, foot-and-mouth disease broke out among British livestock, prompting other nations to ban British meat imports and forcing the slaughter of thousands of cattle, pigs, and sheep in an effort to stem the highly contagious disease.
Do not dumb animals slaughter at will Your appetite greedy to over fulfill.
Sheep are meek creatures, raised for nothing more than slaughter.
One of them, an exceedingly old one (for many a field had he ploughed), thus spoke: "These Butchers, it is true, slaughter us, but they do so with skillful hands, and with no unnecessary pain.
Hans the hedgehog, however, seated himself on the cock, and drove the pigs before him into the village, and ordered the slaughter to begin.
pray let me out, And like a lamb led to slaughter I'll betroth you, no doubt, To my daughter.