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  • Even in Zululand, where all the men are brave, they called thee the "Slaughterer", and at night told stories round the fire of thy strength and deeds.

    Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • 'Be silent,' I said, for I saw that he was getting the blood-fever on him; 'be silent; well art thou called the "Slaughterer".

    Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • They were never rash enough to suggest I should have command, but seemed to have in mind some auxiliary post of Slaughterer-General, as befitting my desperate reputation.

    Watershed 2010

  • Upon recovery he found himself in the position of the mild little forger who gets handcuffed to someone named “Crazy Butch the Nun Slaughterer” on the prison bus.

    an American abroad: the flag « raincoaster 2007

  • They were never rash enough to suggest I should have command, but seemed to have in mind some auxiliary post of Slaughterer-General, as befitting my desperate reputation.

    Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

  • Though the van in which the dying Boxer is taken away has the words "Horse Slaughterer" painted on the sides, Squealer assures the other animals that the veterinary surgeon had just recently bought it, and did not have time to paint the old name out.

    George Orwell and the Politics of Animal Farm 1995

  • So the available subjects for chit-chat are Di's family: Lori is fine and almost done with Slaughterer in Yellow, Mark is a pleasant but not precocious kid, Nahum is precocious.

    Mother Of Storms Barnes, John, 1957- 1994

  • -- He begins, finally, to read the copy that Lori had given him of Slaughterer in Yellow.

    Mother Of Storms Barnes, John, 1957- 1994

  • The zipline whizzes on toward North Carolina, and Di looks up from Slaughterer in Yellow to think a little about the time ahead.

    Mother Of Storms Barnes, John, 1957- 1994

  • She's currently at work on The Slaughterer in Yellow, the sixth of her very popular "spectrum series" of books about the Slaughterer, the serial murderer who finishes every book by framing the detective.

    Mother Of Storms Barnes, John, 1957- 1994

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