wholesale murder
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Market-men in white aprons and straw hats heard William H. Mitchell, chairman, exclaim: "When stark wholesale murder stalks abroad under the guise of any law, in God's name repeal that law!"
From Time Magazine Archive
How could anything that called itself the “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals” engage in wholesale murder?
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
The Duke would never stoop to wholesale murder!
From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Charles Theodore Murray
It was evident that a man so absorbed in religious ideas and so sensitive to the hideous wholesale murder of war, could not remain for long in the army.
From Essays on Russian Novelists by William Lyon Phelps
Rise up in the might of your love and your womanhood and end this wholesale murder.
From The Conquest of America A Romance of Disaster and Victory by Cleveland Moffett
