"Slaughterer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his own enthusiasm for the cause of the immortal gods. Not a temple missed its visit, not a high place near his line of march was left unclimbed. As for his sacrifices, they were by the hecatomb. The very abjects called him Slaughterer. ...
— The Arian Controversy • H. M. Gwatkin
... sought a butcher, Sought again to find a slaughterer, On the ocean's shining surface, On the wide-extending billows. From the dark sea rose a hero, Rose a hero from the sea-swell, 90 From the shining surface rising, From the wide expanse of water. He was not among the greatest, But in nowise of the smallest. ...
— Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) - The Land of the Heroes • Anonymous
... originality, daring, boldness; it kills individuality, and weakens all the mental processes. Great things are never done under a sense of fear of some impending danger. Fear always indicates weakness, the presence of cowardice. What a slaughterer of years, what a sacrificer of happiness and ambitions, what a miner of careers this monster has been! The Bible says, "A broken spirit drieth the bones." It is well known that mental depression—melancholy—will check very materially the ...
— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden
... clan through so many hundred leagues of trackless air, lay limp and mangled on the stained water, torn by the heavy charge of the duck gun. The whimsical fate that seems to play with the destinies of the wild kindreds had chosen to let him save one flock from the slaughterer, and expiate his ...
— The Watchers of the Trails - A Book of Animal Life • Charles G. D. Roberts
... which A made with his sons B and C. The benefice of dagger-bearer (official slaughterer) in the Ishhara temple he assigns to B. The benefice of the shrine of Papsukal in the temple of Belit-shami-ersiti, situated on the bank of the canal, and the sown corn-field on the Dubanitu canal he gave to his younger ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns
... killed; but when the true princess heard of it she wept, and begged the man to nail up Falada's head against a large dark gate in the city through which she had to pass every morning and evening, that there she might still see him sometimes. Then the slaughterer said he would do as she wished, so he cut off the head and nailed it fast ...
— Grimm's Fairy Stories • Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm |
