"Slaughterous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... purifying hurricane of the Revolution swept the rights of the suzerain and the wrongs of the serf together into one bloody abyss. The planters of the interior of the Southern and South-Western States, with their furious feuds and slaughterous combats, their stabbings and pistolings, their gross sensuality, brutal ignorance, and despotic cruelty, resemble the chivalry of France before the horrors of the Jacquerie admonished them that there ...
— Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation - 1838-1839 • Frances Anne Kemble
... only shook his head mournfully as he answered determinedly, "Ef yo' saves a life, you has to give one for hit, mos' eveh time, an' mo' specially in the Fillippians whah they's so murderful and slaughterous." ...
— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter |
