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

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

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 Moffett, Cleveland

The Duke would never stoop to wholesale murder!

From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Murray, Charles Theodore