aceldama

“So that we may rather admire, that the Lord hath not made such inquisition for blood, as to make our land an aceldama, than that we are yet under a dispensation of divine forbearance.”

Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive

“Turn it which way you will, it rolls into the primrose path of dalliance, whose objective point is the aceldama.”

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.

“And this, then, was the regiment -- a regiment already for some hours glorified and hallowed to the ear of all London, as lying stretched, by a large majority, upon one bloody aceldama -- in which the young trooper served whose mother was now talking in a spirit of such joyous enthusiasm.”

The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

“All known and respectable publishers having declined any connexion with the work, the writers had facetiously resorted to this _aceldama_, or slaughtering quarter of London -- to these vast shambles, as typical, I suppose, of their own slaughtering spirit.”

The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg

“Christendom should be a field of blood, an aceldama, beyond other places of the world, that where the gospel is pretended to be received, that men have so far put off even humanity, as thus to bite and devour one another.”

The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

“_aceldama_, though all was done that could be to save life and alleviate suffering.”

Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South

“Latterly, indeed, it had become apparent that entire winter campaigns, without either formal suspensions of hostilities, or even partial relaxations, had entered professedly as a point of policy into the system of warfare which now swept over Germany in full career, threatening soon to convert its vast central provinces -- so recently blooming Edens of peace and expanding prosperity -- into a howling wilderness; and which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama, or human shambles, reviving to the recollection at every step the extent of past happiness in the endless memorials of its destruction.”

Memorials and Other Papers — Complete

“wings with dreadful shade contiguous," and fills the land with tears of blood -- you look over this frightful _aceldama_ and mourn at the soul-chilling spectacle.”

A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco