noyades

• One reason for my alarm is that, when he closes his eyes, he arrives, not in New Jerusalem, but on some august day of outrage when hellikins cavort through ruined drawing-rooms and fish-wives intervene in the Chamber or some autumn night of deletions and noyades when the unrepentant thieves (including me) are sequestered and those he hates shall hate themselves instead. —  RosieBell
• The abolition of rotten boroughs brought down a thousand ominous references to noyades, fusillades, and guillotines. —  Studies in Literature
• He it was who instigated the massacres of September, the atrocities of Nantes, the horrors of Thermidor, the sacrileges, the noyades: all with the view of causing every section of the National Assembly to vie with the other in excesses and in cruelty, until the makers of the Revolution, satiated with their own lust, turned on one another, and Sardanapalus-like buried themselves and their orgies in the vast hecatomb of a self-consumed anarchy Whether the power thus ascribed to Baron de Batz by his historians is real or imaginary it is not the purpose of this preface to investigate. —  El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel
• Toulon by grape-shot, became still more horrible, by the noyades of —  History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814
• CARRIER, a Revolutionist, in National Assembly, Nantes noyades, guillotined. —  The French Revolution

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