slaughter-pen

Therefore, as he struck and struck and struck again, the cell became a gorily reeking slaughter-pen, its every corner high-piled with the shattered corpses of the Wheelmen and its floor running with blood and slime.

Galactic Patrol Smith, E. E. 1950

Metemmeh had been made a slaughter-pen by the dervishes under Mahmoud.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

To retreat was only less dangerous than to stay, yet many of the soldiers jumped out of this slaughter-pen and ran headlong back to the Union lines.

A Brief History of the United States

Rappahannock, they will find Fredericksburg only a slaughter-pen.

Ten American Girls From History Kate Dickinson Sweetser

We are contending with an enemy who, as I understand, drives every able-bodied man he can reach into his ranks, very much as a butcher drives bullocks into a slaughter-pen.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

"It was a terrible slaughter -- the scene a veritable slaughter-pen."

The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

Genius it should be the last to be sent to -- the slaughter-pen.

Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928

Dr. Phillips is thrown in the slaughter-pen to make out the number.

The History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America: Comprising Its Organization, Subsequent Development and Present Status Charles Henry 1925

His propaganda regained its former idealistic hue, and it was only when somebody tried to drag him into the slaughter-pen that he developed teeth and claws.

Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923

Bulgaria or Turkey; the masters of Wall Street would find that when they set out to drive American free men to the slaughter-pen, they had made the mistake of their greedy lives.

Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923