slain

• Among the slain was the commander, and twelve other officers were also killed The British, in spite of a cold rain, pushed on 1,200 yards north of the Festubert-La Quinque Rue road; and took a defense 300 yards to the southeast of the hamlet. —  The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes
• "Then you will let me go as soon as I have visited you at your palace To be cut down--slain, after I have taken such pains to save your life?" —  Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East
• When we die or are slain, that is the end of us Illustration But you have brought your oomphel into this world; have you not brought the curse with it?" —  Oomphel in the Sky
• Only the burial-places of the slain are there. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
• This place is said to be between Diarbekir and Mardîn, and the bones of the slain are there in heaps to this day Another informant told me that the Diarbekir authorities had killed the Armenians either by shooting, by the butchers, or at times by putting numbers of them in wells and caves, which were blocked up so that they perished. —  Martyred Armenia

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