1 A massacre took place in the chapel.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT 2 On the whole, let us say it plainly, it was more of a massacre than of a battle at Waterloo.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 3 Its light favored Blucher's ferocious pursuit, betrayed the traces of the fugitives, delivered up that disastrous mass to the eager Prussian cavalry, and aided the massacre.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 4 The nourishment of the people is a good object; to massacre them is a bad means.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 5 The massacre of men who were fellow Christians, and of the same Slavonic race, excited sympathy for the sufferers and indignation against the oppressors.
6 But when the hunter reached the scene of the ruthless massacre, the ledge was tenanted only by the dead.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32 7 As I thought of that, I was almost moved to begin a massacre of the helpless abominations about me, but I contained myself.
8 Despite all Kutuzov's efforts to avoid that ruinous encounter and to preserve his troops, the massacre of the broken mob of French soldiers by worn-out Russians continued at Krasnoe for three days.
9 Amid the massacre he escaped to the refuge of Rutulian land and the armed defence of Turnus' friendship.
10 , massacres were excused as the natural resentment of intelligence against government by ignorance.
11 Thoughtful Afro-Americans with the strong arm of the government withdrawn and with the hope to stop such wholesale massacres urged the race to sacrifice its political rights for sake of peace.
12 Just at this time the famous massacres took place in the south of France.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 13 Add, for all must needs be told, the massacres which have too often dishonored the victory of order grown ferocious over liberty gone mad.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION 14 I read of men concerned in public affairs, governing or massacring their species.
15 At length I saw all our Italian women, and my mother herself, torn, mangled, massacred, by the monsters who disputed over them.