Barbarities

And these not being sufficient to glut their Avarice, they have, by the most unparalleled Barbarities, Extortions, and Monopolies, stripped the miserable Inhabitants of their Property, and reduced whole Provinces to Indigence and Ruin.

Thom Hartmann: The Real Boston Tea Party was Against the Wal-Mart of the 1770s 2009

Authors, which ended by degrees in many Barbarities, even before the Goths had invaded Italy.

A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue 2003

Barbarities of dress and speech, lapses in behavior-one horrible evening drunken Slothrop, Tantivy's guest at the Junior Athenaeum, got them both 86'd feinting with the beak of a stuffed owl after the jugular of DeCoverley Pox whilst Pox, at bay on a billiard table, attempted to ram a cue ball down Slothrop's throat.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

Misery of every sensible being, that comes to my Knowledge, am obliged to hear continual Accounts of the Barbarities, the cruel Murders in cold Blood, even by the most tormenting Ways of starving and freezing, committed by our Enemies, and continual Accounts of the Deaths and Diseases contracted by our People by their own Imprudence.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 17 February 1777 1963

Commemoration of the shocking Cruelties, the brutal Barbarities and the diabolical Impieties of this War, and these should be contrasted with the

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 27 April 1777 1963

THE unparelelled Barbarities exerted by the _French_ against our Settlements in _America_, might justify the bitterest

The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts Various

Europe -- Scott's Relation of the Barbarities perpetrated in the Witch-trials under the Auspices of James VI.

The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams

Europe -- Scott's Relation of the Barbarities perpetrated in the Witch-trials under the auspices of James VI.

The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams

Barbarities in Belgium, and in northern France, will form one of the blackest pages in the history that will be written in connection with the present war.

Belgium's Heroic Resistance 1915

"Barbarities too dreadful for utterance or contemplation, all that phrenzied passion or brutal ferocity could suggest, were perpetrated on the bodies of these noble and virtuous citizens; nor was it till night put an end to the butchery, that their friends were permitted to convey their mangled remains to a secret and obscure tomb."

A Wanderer in Holland 1903