wholesale murder

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Market-men in white aprons and straw hats heard William H. Mitchell, chairman, exclaim: "When stark wholesale murder stalks abroad under the guise of any law, in God's name repeal that law!"

From Time Magazine Archive

How could anything that called itself the “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals” engage in wholesale murder?

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

Rise up in the might of your love and your womanhood and end this wholesale murder.

From The Conquest of America A Romance of Disaster and Victory by Moffett, Cleveland

During the ensuing years of military conflict, planned destruction and wholesale murder, another considerable part of the West, both socialist and liberal, was promising security, comfort and convenience here and now.

From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott

It was evident that a man so absorbed in religious ideas and so sensitive to the hideous wholesale murder of war, could not remain for long in the army.

From Essays on Russian Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon