Read full poem →After madness, after massacre, Jacobinism and
Jacquerie,
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The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to civilized norms.
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Poetry examples for “massacre”
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Read full poem →adopted it but for some occasion of especial state. Such, you
will allow, is the massacre of a thousand Jews. With how superior
a dignity the monarch perambulates on all fours! His tail, you
Read full poem →Yes—undoubtedly. The king has ordered some novel spectacle—some
gladiatorial exhibition at the hippodrome—or perhaps the massacre
of the Scythian prisoners—or the conflagration of his new
Read full poem →1572 Gregory XIII, Pope of Rome.
1572 Massacre of St. Batholomew.
1574 Henry III, king of France.
Read full poem →The Franciscans entered the Florida mission field in 1577.
In spite of a general massacre of the missionaries twenty
years later, the work of evangelization was continued and
Read full poem →to convert the Iroquois, but in 1658 the missionaries with-
drew on account of a threat of a general massacre of the
French.
Read full poem →STRIKE, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail
May's beauty massacre and wisped wild clouds grow
Out on the giant air; tell Summer No,
Read full poem →named Virginia; Voyages of Davis, &c. ; Second Expedition of Rideiirh, under Lane; Settlement
at Roanoke; Folly and Cruelty of the English ; the Indiana; Massacre by the English; Failure and
Return of the Expedition, 89
Read full poem →And work on them as me, and so prefer
Your murder to the name of massacre,
Read full poem →on the Cambrian kings. It has been surmised by some authors, that
Augustin himself instigated this massacre, and thereby contributed to
the accomplishment of his own prophecy. Other authorities say, that he