"Slaughterhouse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... used to slaughterhouse work," said Sinclair with equal calm, although he was panting. "Besides, it wasn't worth it. Murder ...
— The Rangeland Avenger • Max Brand
... the "Formidabile" and the "Varese," were not in the line, and took no part in the coming battle. The "Formidabile" had suffered heavily in the attack on the shore batteries, numerous shells entering her port-holes and making a slaughterhouse of her gun-deck. She had been ordered to Ancona, and had left Lissa in the early morning. The "Varese" had been detached to assist in operations on the other side of the island, and joined Albini's squadron of wooden ships while ...
— Famous Sea Fights - From Salamis to Tsu-Shima • John Richard Hale
... is little opportunity for the display of marksmanship in an elephant battue, there is one feature in the sport, as conducted in Ceylon, which contrasts favourably with the slaughterhouse details chronicled with revolting minuteness in some recent accounts of elephant shooting in South Africa. The practice in Ceylon is to aim invariably at the head, and the sportsman finds his safety to consist in boldly facing ...
— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent
... that half Europe has been transformed into a vast slaughterhouse, appeals for sympathy can be ...
— The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 • Various
... sir,—all I want and beg, is time, to make it sure,' cried the trembling wretch, looking wildly round for sympathy. 'The King and Government can't know it's me; I'm sure they can't know it's me; or they never would bring me to this dreadful slaughterhouse. They know my name, but they don't know it's the same man. Stop my execution—for charity's sake stop my execution, gentlemen—till they can be told that I've been hangman here, nigh thirty year. Will no one go and tell them?' he implored, ...
— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens |
