All 12 Uses of
massacre
in
Red Prophet
- So you encourage them here in the east--they all know how much you admire their anti-monarchist philosophy--and then I have to pay for their scalps when the Reds massacre them out west.†
Chpt 3
- Some of the conversation turned on the stories about Red massacres down south.†
Chpt 7
- So wouldn't he leave one alive to tell about it, if he was doing massacres?†
Chpt 7
- You just don't keep too wary that close to home, not even when you're talking about Red massacres and stories about murders and torture.†
Chpt 7
- They stayed no more than three days in any place--a permanent village like Prophetstown was an invitation to a massacre.†
Chpt 11
- For in all the paths in which Harrison showed any mercy, the massacre of Tippy-Canoe did nothing to stop the destruction of the Reds, and, with them, the land.†
Chpt 14
- It wasn't war today, it was massacre,
Chpt 14 *massacre = the savage and excessive killing of many people
- " "I'd stand naked half the day in front of all the ladies in church if it would stop this massacre," said Armor.†
Chpt 14
- It was a massacre, and White men committed it, and not one Red raised a hand in violence or defense.†
Chpt 14
- He just felt like the same burden was on him like it was on all the Whites who beheld the massacre at Tippy-Canoe.†
Chpt 17
- About Ta-Kumsaw, who appears one day in the Osh-Kontsy country and the next day in a village on the banks of the Yazoo, stirring up Reds to do massacre and torture.†
Chpt 17
- Alvin saw the rest of the green threads, the few that remained from the massacre at Tippy-Canoe, migrate to the edge of the cloth and stop.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(massacre) the savage and excessive killing of many people
or:
to defeat an opponent by a wide margin