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
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 Phelps, William Lyon
The Duke would never stoop to wholesale murder!
From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Murray, Charles Theodore
This man might have a feud with Kubar Bux, and peradventure he had merely invented the story of thugs and wholesale murder for the latter's undoing.
From Tales of Destiny by Mitchell, Edmund
