英语词汇“hecatomb”造句的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

If I may say so, the great hecatomb of pigs you describe on farm has not taken place. Conservative conference: Government looking at language rule for butchers 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

This, in a nutshell, is the catastrophic and unprecedented hecatomb that Brazil found itself locked in by mid-April 2021. Brazil's Pandemic Is a ‘Biological Fukushima’ That Threatens the Entire Planet 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

“They get caught and I think it’s very good there is a hecatomb right now. It shows that things are being done for a cleaner sport.” French track in doldrums after another doping case 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

But amid the ensuing hecatomb of the Tet Offensive four years later, LBJ announced he would not run for a second term. The mental rigours of being US president 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

Unbeknown to them, Mr. Renzi writes, the liberal leaders were sitting “in a hecatomb.” A Call to Putin, and Russian TV Changed Its Story 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

The French Revolution had resurrected the idea of democracy – and produced a hecatomb on a grand scale. Could populism actually be good for democracy? 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

If the hecatomb of humankind is to be averted “self-control and restraint” must replace “fear and pride”. Will Trump unleash a slow-motion Cuban Missile Crisis? | Robert Anderson and Martin J Sherwin 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

Was it for liberty she offered up so many human hecatombs on the plains of Hindostan? The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:39.100Z

Others announce that a devoted body of patriots have sworn to sacrifice a 44 hecatomb of National Guards, to atone for an abomination which many believe to originate with them. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z

The horns of the bullocks were gilded, and the necks of the smaller beasts were twined with wreaths of flowers—just as the hecatombs of Zeus were ornamented at home. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z

What hecatombs of weltering corpses poisoning the earth which industry should make wholesome! Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z

While his uncle and the sailors exulted over these treasures, Montbars was counting the dead288 Spaniards, and gloating over the first victims of the hecatomb he still hoped to slay. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z

Yet in spite of so much cruel bloodshed, in spite of the numerous hecatombs of martyrs, there are still some direct descendants of the first Christian families. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z

Above all the anguish and tears of that immense hecatomb will appear the shade of Lincoln as the symbol of hope and of pardon. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z

For on days that followed great religious festivals the flesh from the sacrificial hecatombs was sold at a minimum price to the poor, so that the greater part of Babylon had meat to eat. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z

Among the revolutionaries were men who burned to emulate the Numantians, and to make of themselves, the whole population, and the city, one vast blazing hecatomb. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z

Some worshipt nothing, naming it a god; 2560 Some deemed the mortal dust a thing divine; Religious, irreligious, bigotry, Each counted victims by the hecatomb. Elias An Epic of the Ages 2011-10-13T02:00:41.923Z

If so the demon to whom some nations offer human hecatombs is less barbarous than the Deity of civilized society.... The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z

He would offer sacrifices of a whole hecatomb at once. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z

The temple of Istar had lost a hecatomb; but Belshazzar had, perhaps, been won to faith in his native gods. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z

They are, perhaps, the descendants of those unfortunate oxen who, in hecatombs, were slaughtered on the altars of Jupiter. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z

The Earth,—an altar all afire Her hecatombs to claim, Shoots upward many a golden spire And crimson tongue of flame. Sonnets and Other Verse 2011-09-11T02:00:08.503Z

Sometimes it has been single victims, sometimes hecatombs of slaughtered slaves. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z

Then Cinna, who not long before would have laughed at faith in Hecate, sacrificed a hecatomb to her. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z

And b after m is silent, as lamb, jamb, climb, tomb, womb, numb, thumb, crumb, dumb, plumb, comb, hecatomb, catacomb, currycomb, coxcomb, succumb. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. 2011-06-30T02:00:25.950Z

Millions of such offerings were made, and hecatombs of these expiatory sacrifices were offered in view of the great event that would be consummated when Jesus should offer up Himself. An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 2011-06-06T02:00:07.650Z

Who will avenge these hecatombs of unknown men, executed in silence, like the last combatants of the Père Lachaise in the darkness of the night? History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z

So numerous were they, that it appeared as if the line would never end; for Coecus had arranged to offer up a whole hecatomb of victims. Jovinian A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome 2011-04-21T02:00:52.107Z

The immolation of a dog was with them enough for an occasion that would have been celebrated by the Nahuas with hecatombs of victims. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z

The saints of the “holy city” had been promised a hecatomb; and we expected, at least something in the shape of a fight. The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z

Now I have the will to pile a hecatomb, but if I can pile only a couple of straws, it will be, of course, the same thing in the abstract. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z

The hecatombs of the Asiatic victors, the fêtes of Dahomey alone could give some idea of this butchery of proletarians. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z

The red-capped Company recruits victims for the hecatomb, and over Nantes Town there hangs a pall of unspeakable horror. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z

The place, after a defence that had cost hecatombs of lives to the besiegers, was allowed to capitulate on honourable terms. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies

Before falling, I should make a hecatomb of my cowardly assassins. The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z

The Thessalians vowed at least every year a hecatomb of men to Apollo Καταιβάτης. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2

That idol has had hecatombs offered on its altars, and unless there comes a change it will have hecatombs in the future. Victory out of Ruin

That comparison may be granted: we are better than Germany, though Germany has not yet sacrificed her children in such hecatombs as we have done. Stand Up, Ye Dead

The priest then prayed to the gods, beseeching them to prove themselves stronger than the gods of the enemy in the ensuing engagement, and promising them hecatombs of victims in the event of victory. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II

He was himself the most distinguished victim, destined to the highest and hottest place on the great altar of his country, where a hecatomb would scarce suffice to appease the anger of the offended gods. Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1

An immense concert of imprecations, of fierce cries of pain and rage rises heavenward with the flames of the magnificent hecatomb of Frankish warriors! The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century

Pausing before one skeleton, Grenville pronounced it unmistakably that of a young woman, and Leigh, usually unimpressionable, rapped out a string of oaths, and vowed to pile a hecatomb of Mormon bodies to her manes. Into the Unknown A Romance of South Africa

There was no need for the hecatombs, which have been made during the past year, to evoke admiration for their splendid devotion. Above the Battle

The smoke of the hecatombs must have affected Jove as a sort of chloroform, or else he would never have sat there sniffing them for centuries. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance

"I think," wrote Clarke in 1742, "you buy his friendship cheap with a whole hecatomb of notes, essays, illustrations, and the mob of commentators." The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition

Another, in order to encourage the North, it is said that hecatombs of dead were carried out of Fort Moultrie, packed up, for easy travelling, in boxes. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1

My dear sir, a hecatomb would not satisfy Berkeley. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion

When not long ago I came across the noble sentiment that "hecatombs of brutes should be tortured, if man thereby could be saved one pang," I found myself dimly wondering what constituted a "brute." Dog Stories from the "Spectator" being anecdotes of the intelligence, reasoning power, affection and sympathy of dogs, selected from the correspondence columns of "The Spectator"

The sword of the duelist, quarreling over women, the picturesque horrors of delirium tremens, and the loathsome mal de Naples continually swept away hecatombs of tyrant lordlings and frequently obliterated whole families. The Economic Functions of Vice

At Siler’s Meadow seventeen cattle climbed upon each other for warmth and froze to death in a solid hecatomb. Our Southern Highlanders

A great object of military expeditions was to gather hecatombs of captives for his altars. The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West

The defenders emptied their rifles, cannon and mortars upon the very heads of the brave assaulters, making of them a human hecatomb. The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War

After many days of battle and glorious hecatombs, the rival states would appear to recognise that their respective ambitions are unattainable. The Forerunners

Whomsoever she approaches, that three-cornered dagger prods, And a hecatomb of corpses follows when her head she nods. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, January 25th, 1890

Far, far into the night they saw the blaze That leapt in crimson o'er the abandoned hulk Behind them, like a mighty hecatomb Marking the path of some Titanic will. Collected Poems Volume One

Without it, France, like Carthage, would have bled to death on the hecatomb of her own lust. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers."

"The gods appear manifest amongst us," we read in the seventh book of the Odyssey, "whensoever we offer glorious hecatombs, and they feast by our side, sitting at the same board." History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems

I came unwillingly at Jove's command, For who, of choice, would traverse the wide waste Of the salt ocean, with no city near, Where men adore the gods with solemn rites And chosen hecatombs? Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition

The brave man is the pitiful man; and while he may consider a hecatomb necessary for a cause, he regards one life sacrificed unnecessarily, as murder. Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862

Ay, sweeping o'er the sunset-crimsoned sea Let the proud pageant in its glory come, Leaving the sunset like a hecatomb Of souls whose bodies yet endure the chain! Collected Poems Volume One

Yes, strew the hill, with death, and carcasses, And offer up, this band, a hecatomb, To Britain's glory, and the cause of kings. The Battle of Bunkers-Hill

In Echegaray there are hecatombs, half the characters habitually go insane in the last act; tremendous barking but no bite of real intensity. Rosinante to the Road Again

A Sakai village — The "elder" — The family — Degrees of relationship — Humorists disoccupied — On the march — Tender hearts — Kindling the fire — A hecatomb of giants — The hut — Household goods and utensils — Work and repose. My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula)

The Ninevite conquerors set themselves to extend the worship of their great national god; they sacrificed by hecatombs the presumptuous enemies who blasphemed the name of Assur. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1

It was dedicated with great joy and magnificence, but the sacrifice of one hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and twelve goats, formed a sad contrast to the hecatombs which Solomon had offered. Ancient States and Empires

Prayers for the dead I offered up And hecatombs. Spectra A Book of Poetic Experiments

It was not on his altars, not on his chiefly, that hecatombs of needlework were offered up. The Bertrams

For Our Lady of Genius has no care for the prayers and groans of mortals, nor for their hecatombs sweet of savor. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays

Yes,—whence comes the battle, in fighting which hecatombs of honest labourers have been crushed till the sides of the mountains are white with their bones, and the rivers run foul with their blood? Ralph the Heir

He is the god of war and of carnage, the protector of armies, the inspirer of hatred among the peoples, it is he who pours out the blood of Humanity in international hecatombs. Astronomy for Amateurs

She, bathed and habited in fresh attire, Vow’d a full hecatomb to all the Gods, Would Jove but recompense her num’rous wrongs. The Odyssey of Homer

If there were an altar yet left in Israel, it should smoke with a hecatomb of lambs for him.” Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century

But amidst all that rushing eagerness there was one End presiding in Baldassarre’s consciousness,—a dark deity in the inmost cell, who only seemed forgotten while his hecatomb was being prepared. Romola

Hence, when Agamemnon offers a hecatomb to Jupiter, his brother Menelaus walks in to dinner, ἁχλητος, without invitation. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1

The hunter turns faint, sick, as he contemplates this hecatomb of corpses. The Death Shot A Story Retold

Browne climbed up on the highest rock with me a sort of flat slab, whereon you might immolate a hecatomb. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales

Although they brought hecatombs of bloody sacrifices they had not succeeded in taking the fortress by storm. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915

And they sacrificed to Apollo perfect hecatombs of bulls and goats, along the shore of the barren sea; and the savour involved in 39 smoke ascended to heaven. The Iliad of Homer (1873)

What blood; what hecatombs; and how few tears! A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance

Those frightful hecatombs of sheep and oxen which Francatelli decreed had made way for more ethereal fare. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography

They would first make a hecatomb of their hated foes, and then fall upon it. The Lone Ranche

It was high time that an end should be put to those hecatombs of human victims, slashed, torn open and devoured on all the little occasions of life. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure

Then they immediately placed in order the splendid hecatomb for the god around the well-built altar. The Iliad of Homer (1873)

Homer writes of a ‘hecatomb’ not of a hundred, but of twelve, oxen; and elsewhere of Hebe he says, in words not reproducible in English, νέκταρ ἐωνοχόει. English Past and Present

And down in the south, where the spongy and resinous trees were drying in the heat, they were starting forest fires and perishing in them in hecatombs. Oomphel in the Sky

An artist will learn more about life and character with the help of those three, than all the savants in creation could imbibe from a hecatomb of books. The Great Amulet

Excuse me, Bertram; I am not worthy to be singled out From such exalted hecatombs—who are they That are in danger, and that make the danger? The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4

Thus, therefore, the dreadful portents of the gods approached the hecatombs. The Iliad of Homer (1873)

Forgetful of this useless hecatomb at war's relentless shrine, America echoed the gratulations of the victors which fell with scathing power on the heart of the trembling Mary. Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest

To a sensitive mind, the butchers' shops, gorged with the flesh of fat beeves, or the poulterers, with their hecatombs of turkeys, are repulsive, to say the least. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide

The ancient Pythoness must have a hecatomb, the writing medium a dollar, and the modern Pythoness of the platform a dime. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity

"Tales of the chase, my dear, of hecatombs of field-mice and squirrels!" Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers

They themselves then went forth on the breakers of the sea, and disembarked the hecatomb to far-darting Apollo, and then they made the daughter of Chryses descend from the sea-traversing bark. The Iliad of Homer (1873)

Several places of worship were opened with feasts, at which huge hecatombs of swine were consumed—1,370 at one festival. Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field

What a hecatomb of mouldering bones would bestrew those fields of ice! The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

Were all undue anxiety Eliminated from desire, Could feverish fears and fancies be Consumèd on some funeral pyre, Like holy hecatomb or sacrifice, 'Twould be accepted up in Paradise. Poems Vol. IV

Then for a spouse so goodly, before each spirit of heaven, Me thou vowd'st, with slain oxen, a vast hecatomb, 35 Home if again he alighted. The Poems and Fragments of Catullus

Dost thou not perceive how the long-haired Greeks have built a wall before their shipping, and have drawn a ditch all round, nor have they given splendid hecatombs to the gods? The Iliad of Homer (1873)

An hecatomb of characters supplies Thy painted altars' daily sacrifice. The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2

I slew men in hecatombs; and then, when the morning came and I awoke, there was not a shred of intellectual wrack left behind on which my mind could take hold. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O

As for his sacrifices, they were by the hecatomb. The Arian Controversy

We should gain nothing by preventing them from keeping Christmas in their own way, and it would have been a nobler thing to reserve our blows for other hecatombs. In the Field (1914-1915) The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry

But the son of Atreus 37 launched his swift ship into the sea, and selected and put into it twenty rowers, and embarked a hecatomb for the god. The Iliad of Homer (1873)

Yes," said Stoss, "but your old English rector first filled his belly with a few hecatombs of human lives. Atlantis

"Beef Halt, so called because of the hecatombs of oxen we consume." The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars

A hecatomb of victims was but a small offering. Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans

But for science we should be still worshipping fetishes; or, with hecatombs of victims, propitiating diabolical deities. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library

We spend our lives in murdering hecatombs of creeping and jumping things, and vehemently slapping our own faces with intent to kill the flying ones that incessantly buzz about one. Records of a Girlhood

I go to charge our senators and wives That they address the Gods with prayers and vows For our success, and hecatombs devote. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper

As the blood and smoke of so many hecatombs might be inconvenient, Lightfoot, the Christian Rabbi, removes them by a miracle. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01

“And to thee will they raise many statues in the temples: as these thy deeds are three, so men will sacrifice to thee hecatombs every three years.” The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological

Your drowsy Circassian, faint and dreamy, or your crockery Georgian—fit dolls for the sensual Turk—is, to him who would buy soul, dear at a penny the hecatomb. Initial Studies in American Letters

They listened long and intently, but not a single sound came from the great hecatomb. The Texan Scouts A Story of the Alamo and Goliad

See'st thou yon height of wall, and yon deep trench With which the Grecians have their fleet inclosed,530 And, careless of our blessing, hecatomb Or invocation have presented none? The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper

September passed by, hecatombs of partridges were slaughtered, and the day of the wedding drew nigh. The Claverings

But the God of Hua Shan knew that the King had been deprived of a male heir as a punishment for the bloody hecatombs during his three years’ war. Myths and Legends of China

Your ha! ha!—especially should it precede the name of Sam Rogers—would inevitably cost you a hecatomb of dinners. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841

On great occasions large sacrifices were offered of numerous victims,—as the hecatomb, which means a hundred oxen. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology

Bid bright Astræa gild the morn, Or bid a hundred suns be born, To hecatomb the year; Without thy aid, in vain the poles, In vain the zodiac system rolls, In vain the lunar sphere. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1

The "Liberal Century" after having accumulated an infinity of Gordian knots, sought to cut them in the hecatomb of the World War. Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado

He then vowed a hecatomb and sacred games in honour of the god, and ordered his officers to arrange the men in line of battle. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I

If he should travel about the country he would have hecatombs of roasted oxen sacrificed to him. Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732)

And on Freedom's altar—ah, I fear—still, may slay thy hecatombs. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II

No reproach this, to Belisarius' heart of game; for the most intrepid Feegee warrior, he who has slain his hecatombs, will not go ten yards in the dark alone, for fear of ghosts. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I

What! immolate a whole hecatomb of guiltless women and children? Cobwebs from an Empty Skull

There was nothing unusual, unless indeed it was the assiduousness of the young Duchess, who from morning until night ceased not to offer hecatombs for the safety and freedom of her lord. Mistress Penwick

One cannot imagine what those horrible hecatombs are, when a powerful chief's memory must be fitly honored among these tribes of Central Africa. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen

In the old days children were sacrificed to a brazen burning god, but time affects more subtile hecatombs: for Moloch slew outright. Figures of Earth

So, in a more than different way, we shall find him—who had slain his hecatomb of hearts—helpless in the power of his one great love. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2

Such were the days; and each day the terror-stricken city offered up its hecatomb to death; and the faces of all the dead were yellow as flame! Chita: a Memory of Last Island

If the dispersion of this malaria demands a human hecatomb, it would evidently be better to sacrifice criminals than honest husbandmen. Criminal Sociology

The glory of the first recoiled upon the second, and served as an excuse for the hecatombs of the Terror, the ferocity of the civil war, and the devastation of France. The Psychology of Revolution

During twenty years the nations were engaged in internecine conflict, and Europe witnessed hecatombs that would have terrified Ghengis Khan and Tamerlane. The Crowd; study of the popular mind

You at least shall live no more to be a fell bane to men who eat the fruit of the all-nourishing earth, and who will bring hither perfect hecatombs. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

She found his Homer, with its slaughters and hecatombs and barbaric feastings and headstrong passions, violent and coarse. The Octopus : A story of California

Or, did he stop after the last hecatomb? Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

Its fury and its hecatombs will then become intelligible. The Psychology of Revolution

The reason was that this veritable hecatomb was not embodied in any visible image, but was only learnt from statistical information furnished weekly. The Crowd; study of the popular mind

You may so stew, distill, and titillate your palate with essences that a hecatomb shall be swallowed at every meal. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor

Between the two armies lay the hecatombs of dead and the thousands of wounded. The Rock of Chickamauga A Story of the Western Crisis

What slaughter'd hecatombs, what floods of wine, Fill the capacious squire, and deep divine! The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2

She would trample upon a hecatomb of hearts to arrive at the object of her ambition. The Lovels of Arden

Why, oh, why must these reeking hecatombs load our tables, when they might as easily be kept out of sight upon a buffet? London Pride Or When the World Was Younger

I believe, in different climes, I have already sacrificed an hecatomb to my Nemesis, in pursuance of this vow. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1

O, why could he not offer a hecatomb of these common creatures as a substitute for that one fair spirit? Charlotte's Inheritance

Nothing was more Hoffmanesque than this slaughter of pigs at the period I am speaking about, for since then a sentiment of humanity has crept, although still somewhat timidly, into this temple of porcine hecatombs. My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt

If we want to have a literal translation of this sculpture, and find the modern representation of a hecatomb, we must go to the slaughter-houses at La Villette. Saint Augustin

I suppose you have a score of new works, all of which I hope to see flourishing, with a hecatomb of reviews. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1

Its more than hundred hecatombs of dead represent several times that number of their brethren, for whom the prison gates of Belle Isle, Danville, Salisbury, Florence, Columbia, and Cahaba open'd only in eternity. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy

Or it may be, the last entertainment is that hecatomb they call a wedding breakfast, which celebrates the triumph of a rival. Endymion

He never doubted it then and he never doubted it afterward, through all the vast hecatomb when the flag of the Union fell more than once in terrible defeat. The Sword of Antietam A Story of the Nation's Crisis

Error and folly have had their hecatombs of martyrs. Daniel Deronda

Strange to reflect that, without the ephemeral friendship of that evening, Messina of to-day might have represented to my mind a mere spectacle, the hecatomb of its inhabitants extorting little more than a conventional sigh. Old Calabria

Consumption had swept a hecatomb of victims from the family. The Eustace Diamonds

The march of invention was white with the bleaching bones of innumerable hecatombs of victims. Equality

Marius washed his hands, raised them to heaven, and vowed to offer a hecatomb to the gods. Battle Studies

Useless hecatombs, which the induced egotism of the world behind the lines thought natural; cruelties on all sides, criminal reprisals for crimes—for which these good people clamoured, and loudly applauded. Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War

But the Muses and the Graces are his hard mistresses; though he daily invocate them, though he sacrifice hecatombs, they still look asquint. Character Writings of the 17th Century

If so, the demon to whom some nations offer human hecatombs is less barbarous than the deity of civilized society!” A History of Freedom of Thought

What does a hecatomb of twenty thousand wretches signify? The Reign of Greed

The hecatombs sacrificed at Lyons, and the "Red Masses" of Orange, have all been described. The Theory of Social Revolutions

They were human scalps, collected by himself, in the course of many campaigns, and brought, as a species of hecatomb, to the graves of the fallen. Wyandotte

But in the copious will—the revelling imagination of your host—the "mind, the mind, Master Shallow," whole beeves were spread before you—hecatombs—no end appeared to the profusion. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia

But even when they came back alive they carried with them the germs of death, and another hecatomb ensued, another sacrifice to the monstrous god of social egotism. Fruitfulness

Then the hecatomb is preparing: let the unfit perish and only the strongest survive!” The Reign of Greed

And toil, and hecatombs of broken hearts, With fear and self-contempt and barren hope.' Adonais

If the case stands thus, if the Fates are mistresses of all, and their decisions unalterable, then why do men sacrifice to you, and bring hecatombs, and pray for good at your hands? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

There were few families in Scotland which did not contribute to that hecatomb, whereof the memory is enshrined in the national song of lamentation, "The Flowers of the Forest". England under the Tudors

Bid bright Astraea gild the morn, Or bid a hundred suns be born, To hecatomb the year; Without thy aid, in vain the poles, In vain the zodiac system rolls, In vain the lunar sphere. The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe

The foundations of the houses, and all ground inside the wall, are ivory; temples are built of beryl, and each contains an altar of one amethyst block, on which they offer hecatombs. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02

Almost no day passed but the communiqué…. ascribed to the Germans with some appearance of justice heavy losses, extremely heavy, spoke of bloody sacrifices, heaps of corpses, hecatombs. Public Opinion

When the hecatombs are getting ready, you think nothing of a journey to the ends of the earth to see the 'blameless Ethiopians'; and my reward for procuring you these advantages is—crucifixion! Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01

I want more blood for my money—hecatombs of corpses. Without Prejudice

Then on the shingly breakwater themselves They landed, and the sacred hecatomb To great Apollo; and Chryseis last. The Iliad

Next on the shore their hecatomb they land; Chryseis last descending on the strand. The Iliad

The interest in the hecatombs of Moors and even in the fall of Valencia is a secondary one. The Lay of the Cid

Health is to be had, say, for a calf; wealth, for a couple of yoke of oxen; a kingdom, for a hecatomb. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01

Major Rogers, famous as an elephant shooter in Ceylon, ceased to count his victims after he had slain 1,300, and Cumming in South Africa sacrificed his hecatombs every month. The Earth as Modified by Human Action

If we had had one or two hounds to send into the thickets we might have made hecatombs of them. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville

One from a hundred feather'd deaths he chose, Fated to wound, and cause of future woes; Then offers vows with hecatombs to crown Apollo's altars in his native town. The Iliad

He is now the court god; and well applied With sacrifice of knees, of crooks, and cringes; He will do more than all the house of heaven Can, for a thousand hecatombs. Sejanus: His Fall

They have butchered hecatombs of Swiss, even to porters in private houses, because they often are, and always are called, Le Suisse. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4

Apollo might speed among them his silver arrows, which erst heaped the Phrygian shores with hecatombs of Argive slain, and they would but complain of the mosquito's beak. The Fiend's Delight

He might have been the master of hounds, or the slaughterer of hecatombs of birds. The Small House at Allington

Along the shore whole hecatombs were laid, And bulls and goats to Phoebus' altars paid; The sable fumes in curling spires arise, And waft their grateful odours to the skies. The Iliad

The hecatomb of the weak is enormous, but that matters little so long as the victors' reward be effectual and certain. The Life of the Bee

Make a hecatomb of the present Hamleys all at once, while you are about it. Wives and Daughters

But the time for the hecatomb was approaching. Robur the Conqueror

What a hecatomb of Bees must not a colony of these freebooters make for their personal consumption, not to mention the stored provisions! More Hunting Wasps

Go bathe, and robed in white ascend the towers; With all thy handmaids thank the immortal powers; To every god vow hecatombs to bleed. The Odyssey

One story of the kind, well examined and with logical comments, would be more convincing to a third party than a whole hecatomb of them. The Lady of the Shroud

No seat for me; I must go back to the streams of Ocean, to the Ethiopians' land where they sacrifice hecatombs to the immortal gods, that I too may feast at their rites. The Iliad

It is celebrated for the frightful cruelties which signalize its annual festivals, and by its human sacrifices—fearful hecatombs intended to honor the sovereign it has lost and the sovereign who has succeeded him. Robur the Conqueror

For they sell a small pot of fish for as much as a hecatomb of sheep and all the accessories of sacrifice. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Why cease ye then to implore the powers above, And offer hecatombs to thundering Jove? The Odyssey

Beyond this you know now that of which I was in partial ignorance: how he had, through the skill and devotion of your new Admiral, wrought destruction on a hecatomb of our malignant foes. The Lady of the Shroud

So when the dread portent brake in upon the hecatombs of the gods, then did Kalchas forthwith prophesy, and said: 'Why hold ye your peace, ye flowing-haired Achaians? The Iliad

Then honor Him with a hecatomb," replied Petronius, with an accent of impatience, "but do not beg Him to save her a second time. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero

What slaughtered hecatombs, what floods of wine, Fill the capacious squire, and deep divine! An Essay on Man

Hence springs their confidence, and from our sighs Their rapine strengthens, and their riots rise: Constant as Jove the night and day bestows, Bleeds a whole hecatomb, a vintage flows. The Odyssey

He escorted Chryseis on board and sent moreover a hecatomb for the god. The Iliad

Seest thou not how the flowing-haired Achaians have now again built them a wall before their ships, and drawn a foss around it, but gave not excellent hecatombs to the gods? The Iliad

I have not burned Rome; but if C�sar permitted I would give a hecatomb at once to their divinity. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero

Whole hecatombs of petty rulers were sacrificed at this time to the Visconti alone. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

The baron, who considered the enterprise useless, left the region before the affair of La Penissiere, or the house of Guenic would probably have ended in that hecatomb. Beatrix

We were ranged round about a fountain offering hecatombs to the gods upon their holy altars, and there was a fine plane-tree from beneath which there welled a stream of pure water. The Iliad

There are nine of these great halls, for all ranks, from His Highness downwards, where many hecatombs are roasted daily, according to the accounts, and where cooking goes on with a savage Homeric grandeur. From Cornhill to Grand Cairo

To Nestor first and to his sons vouchsafe renown, and thereafter grant to all the people of Pylos a gracious recompense for this splendid hecatomb. The Odyssey Done into English prose

Meanwhile the heralds were bringing the holy hecatomb through the city, and the Achaeans gathered under the shady grove of Apollo. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original

We have already noted the fable that his enthusiasm over this discovery led him to sacrifice a hecatomb. A History of Science — Volume 1

Then they offered hecatombs of bulls and goats without blemish on the sea-shore, and the smoke with the savour of their sacrifice rose curling up towards heaven. The Iliad

They were almost innumerable, and seemed to have been a vast hecatomb offered up in thanksgiving to the Great Spirit for some signal success in the chase. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West

Then back I went to the waters of Aegyptus, the heaven-fed stream, and there I moored the ships and offered the acceptable sacrifice of hecatombs. The Odyssey Done into English prose

She heeded her son's words, washed her face, changed her dress, and vowed full and sufficient hecatombs to all the gods if they would only vouchsafe her revenge upon the suitors. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original

To each man a whole one was allotted, and we bore the steaming hecatomb into the forecastle. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales

Seeing, then, that such a fearful portent had broken in upon our hecatombs, Calchas forthwith declared to us the oracles of heaven. The Iliad

And what can Europe say, when with a laugh Old Asia heaps her hecatombs of dead? The Congo and Other Poems

And she washed her in water, and took to her fresh raiment, and vowed to all the gods an acceptable sacrifice of hecatombs, if haply Zeus might grant that deeds of requital should be made. The Odyssey Done into English prose

I was trying to come on here, but the gods detained me in Egypt, for my hecatombs had not given them full satisfaction, and the gods are very strict about having their dues. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original

So saying he gave the girl over to her father, who received her gladly, and they ranged the holy hecatomb all orderly round the altar of the god. The Iliad

See you not how the Achaeans have built a wall about their ships and driven a trench all round it, without offering hecatombs to the gods? The Iliad

They then got out upon the sea-shore and landed the hecatomb for Apollo; Chryseis also left the ship, and Ulysses led her to the altar to deliver her into the hands of her father. The Iliad

Now the henchmen were leading through the town the holy hecatomb of the gods, and lo, the long-haired Achaeans were gathered beneath the shady grove of Apollo, the prince of archery. The Odyssey Done into English prose

I again stationed my ships in the heaven-fed stream of Egypt, and offered hecatombs that were full and sufficient. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original

He will not deliver the Danaans from this pestilence till Agamemnon has restored the girl without fee or ransom to her father, and has sent a holy hecatomb to Chryse. The Iliad

The other gods had all been feasted with hecatombs, but to the daughter of great Jove alone he had made no sacrifice. The Iliad

More especially we pray thee send down thy grace on Nestor and on his sons; thereafter also make the rest of the Pylian people some handsome return for the goodly hecatomb they are offering you. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original

单词	hecatomb
例句	hecatomb If I may say so, the great hecatomb of pigs you describe on farm has not taken place. Conservative conference: Government looking at language rule for butchers 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z This, in a nutshell, is the catastrophic and unprecedented hecatomb that Brazil found itself locked in by mid-April 2021. Brazil's Pandemic Is a ‘Biological Fukushima’ That Threatens the Entire Planet 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z “They get caught and I think it’s very good there is a hecatomb right now. It shows that things are being done for a cleaner sport.” French track in doldrums after another doping case 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z But amid the ensuing hecatomb of the Tet Offensive four years later, LBJ announced he would not run for a second term. The mental rigours of being US president 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Unbeknown to them, Mr. Renzi writes, the liberal leaders were sitting “in a hecatomb.” A Call to Putin, and Russian TV Changed Its Story 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The French Revolution had resurrected the idea of democracy – and produced a hecatomb on a grand scale. Could populism actually be good for democracy? 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z If the hecatomb of humankind is to be averted “self-control and restraint” must replace “fear and pride”. Will Trump unleash a slow-motion Cuban Missile Crisis? \| Robert Anderson and Martin J Sherwin 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Was it for liberty she offered up so many human hecatombs on the plains of Hindostan? The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:39.100Z Others announce that a devoted body of patriots have sworn to sacrifice a 44 hecatomb of National Guards, to atone for an abomination which many believe to originate with them. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z The horns of the bullocks were gilded, and the necks of the smaller beasts were twined with wreaths of flowers—just as the hecatombs of Zeus were ornamented at home. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z What hecatombs of weltering corpses poisoning the earth which industry should make wholesome! Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z While his uncle and the sailors exulted over these treasures, Montbars was counting the dead288 Spaniards, and gloating over the first victims of the hecatomb he still hoped to slay. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z Yet in spite of so much cruel bloodshed, in spite of the numerous hecatombs of martyrs, there are still some direct descendants of the first Christian families. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Above all the anguish and tears of that immense hecatomb will appear the shade of Lincoln as the symbol of hope and of pardon. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z For on days that followed great religious festivals the flesh from the sacrificial hecatombs was sold at a minimum price to the poor, so that the greater part of Babylon had meat to eat. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Among the revolutionaries were men who burned to emulate the Numantians, and to make of themselves, the whole population, and the city, one vast blazing hecatomb. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z Some worshipt nothing, naming it a god; 2560 Some deemed the mortal dust a thing divine; Religious, irreligious, bigotry, Each counted victims by the hecatomb. Elias An Epic of the Ages 2011-10-13T02:00:41.923Z If so the demon to whom some nations offer human hecatombs is less barbarous than the Deity of civilized society.... The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z He would offer sacrifices of a whole hecatomb at once. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z The temple of Istar had lost a hecatomb; but Belshazzar had, perhaps, been won to faith in his native gods. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z They are, perhaps, the descendants of those unfortunate oxen who, in hecatombs, were slaughtered on the altars of Jupiter. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z The Earth,—an altar all afire Her hecatombs to claim, Shoots upward many a golden spire And crimson tongue of flame. Sonnets and Other Verse 2011-09-11T02:00:08.503Z Sometimes it has been single victims, sometimes hecatombs of slaughtered slaves. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z Then Cinna, who not long before would have laughed at faith in Hecate, sacrificed a hecatomb to her. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z And b after m is silent, as lamb, jamb, climb, tomb, womb, numb, thumb, crumb, dumb, plumb, comb, hecatomb, catacomb, currycomb, coxcomb, succumb. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. 2011-06-30T02:00:25.950Z Millions of such offerings were made, and hecatombs of these expiatory sacrifices were offered in view of the great event that would be consummated when Jesus should offer up Himself. An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 2011-06-06T02:00:07.650Z Who will avenge these hecatombs of unknown men, executed in silence, like the last combatants of the Père Lachaise in the darkness of the night? History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z So numerous were they, that it appeared as if the line would never end; for Coecus had arranged to offer up a whole hecatomb of victims. Jovinian A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome 2011-04-21T02:00:52.107Z The immolation of a dog was with them enough for an occasion that would have been celebrated by the Nahuas with hecatombs of victims. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The saints of the “holy city” had been promised a hecatomb; and we expected, at least something in the shape of a fight. The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z Now I have the will to pile a hecatomb, but if I can pile only a couple of straws, it will be, of course, the same thing in the abstract. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z The hecatombs of the Asiatic victors, the fêtes of Dahomey alone could give some idea of this butchery of proletarians. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z The red-capped Company recruits victims for the hecatomb, and over Nantes Town there hangs a pall of unspeakable horror. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z The place, after a defence that had cost hecatombs of lives to the besiegers, was allowed to capitulate on honourable terms. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies Before falling, I should make a hecatomb of my cowardly assassins. The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z The Thessalians vowed at least every year a hecatomb of men to Apollo Καταιβάτης. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 That idol has had hecatombs offered on its altars, and unless there comes a change it will have hecatombs in the future. Victory out of Ruin That comparison may be granted: we are better than Germany, though Germany has not yet sacrificed her children in such hecatombs as we have done. Stand Up, Ye Dead The priest then prayed to the gods, beseeching them to prove themselves stronger than the gods of the enemy in the ensuing engagement, and promising them hecatombs of victims in the event of victory. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II He was himself the most distinguished victim, destined to the highest and hottest place on the great altar of his country, where a hecatomb would scarce suffice to appease the anger of the offended gods. Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 An immense concert of imprecations, of fierce cries of pain and rage rises heavenward with the flames of the magnificent hecatomb of Frankish warriors! The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century Pausing before one skeleton, Grenville pronounced it unmistakably that of a young woman, and Leigh, usually unimpressionable, rapped out a string of oaths, and vowed to pile a hecatomb of Mormon bodies to her manes. Into the Unknown A Romance of South Africa There was no need for the hecatombs, which have been made during the past year, to evoke admiration for their splendid devotion. Above the Battle The smoke of the hecatombs must have affected Jove as a sort of chloroform, or else he would never have sat there sniffing them for centuries. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance "I think," wrote Clarke in 1742, "you buy his friendship cheap with a whole hecatomb of notes, essays, illustrations, and the mob of commentators." The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Another, in order to encourage the North, it is said that hecatombs of dead were carried out of Fort Moultrie, packed up, for easy travelling, in boxes. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 My dear sir, a hecatomb would not satisfy Berkeley. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion When not long ago I came across the noble sentiment that "hecatombs of brutes should be tortured, if man thereby could be saved one pang," I found myself dimly wondering what constituted a "brute." Dog Stories from the "Spectator" being anecdotes of the intelligence, reasoning power, affection and sympathy of dogs, selected from the correspondence columns of "The Spectator" The sword of the duelist, quarreling over women, the picturesque horrors of delirium tremens, and the loathsome mal de Naples continually swept away hecatombs of tyrant lordlings and frequently obliterated whole families. The Economic Functions of Vice At Siler’s Meadow seventeen cattle climbed upon each other for warmth and froze to death in a solid hecatomb. Our Southern Highlanders A great object of military expeditions was to gather hecatombs of captives for his altars. The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West The defenders emptied their rifles, cannon and mortars upon the very heads of the brave assaulters, making of them a human hecatomb. The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War After many days of battle and glorious hecatombs, the rival states would appear to recognise that their respective ambitions are unattainable. The Forerunners Whomsoever she approaches, that three-cornered dagger prods, And a hecatomb of corpses follows when her head she nods. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, January 25th, 1890 Far, far into the night they saw the blaze That leapt in crimson o'er the abandoned hulk Behind them, like a mighty hecatomb Marking the path of some Titanic will. Collected Poems Volume One Without it, France, like Carthage, would have bled to death on the hecatomb of her own lust. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." "The gods appear manifest amongst us," we read in the seventh book of the Odyssey, "whensoever we offer glorious hecatombs, and they feast by our side, sitting at the same board." History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems I came unwillingly at Jove's command, For who, of choice, would traverse the wide waste Of the salt ocean, with no city near, Where men adore the gods with solemn rites And chosen hecatombs? Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition The brave man is the pitiful man; and while he may consider a hecatomb necessary for a cause, he regards one life sacrificed unnecessarily, as murder. Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 Ay, sweeping o'er the sunset-crimsoned sea Let the proud pageant in its glory come, Leaving the sunset like a hecatomb Of souls whose bodies yet endure the chain! Collected Poems Volume One Yes, strew the hill, with death, and carcasses, And offer up, this band, a hecatomb, To Britain's glory, and the cause of kings. The Battle of Bunkers-Hill In Echegaray there are hecatombs, half the characters habitually go insane in the last act; tremendous barking but no bite of real intensity. Rosinante to the Road Again A Sakai village — The "elder" — The family — Degrees of relationship — Humorists disoccupied — On the march — Tender hearts — Kindling the fire — A hecatomb of giants — The hut — Household goods and utensils — Work and repose. My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) The Ninevite conquerors set themselves to extend the worship of their great national god; they sacrificed by hecatombs the presumptuous enemies who blasphemed the name of Assur. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 It was dedicated with great joy and magnificence, but the sacrifice of one hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and twelve goats, formed a sad contrast to the hecatombs which Solomon had offered. Ancient States and Empires Prayers for the dead I offered up And hecatombs. Spectra A Book of Poetic Experiments It was not on his altars, not on his chiefly, that hecatombs of needlework were offered up. The Bertrams For Our Lady of Genius has no care for the prayers and groans of mortals, nor for their hecatombs sweet of savor. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Yes,—whence comes the battle, in fighting which hecatombs of honest labourers have been crushed till the sides of the mountains are white with their bones, and the rivers run foul with their blood? Ralph the Heir He is the god of war and of carnage, the protector of armies, the inspirer of hatred among the peoples, it is he who pours out the blood of Humanity in international hecatombs. Astronomy for Amateurs She, bathed and habited in fresh attire, Vow’d a full hecatomb to all the Gods, Would Jove but recompense her num’rous wrongs. The Odyssey of Homer If there were an altar yet left in Israel, it should smoke with a hecatomb of lambs for him.” Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century But amidst all that rushing eagerness there was one End presiding in Baldassarre’s consciousness,—a dark deity in the inmost cell, who only seemed forgotten while his hecatomb was being prepared. Romola Hence, when Agamemnon offers a hecatomb to Jupiter, his brother Menelaus walks in to dinner, ἁχλητος, without invitation. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 The hunter turns faint, sick, as he contemplates this hecatomb of corpses. The Death Shot A Story Retold Browne climbed up on the highest rock with me a sort of flat slab, whereon you might immolate a hecatomb. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Although they brought hecatombs of bloody sacrifices they had not succeeded in taking the fortress by storm. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 And they sacrificed to Apollo perfect hecatombs of bulls and goats, along the shore of the barren sea; and the savour involved in 39 smoke ascended to heaven. The Iliad of Homer (1873) What blood; what hecatombs; and how few tears! A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Those frightful hecatombs of sheep and oxen which Francatelli decreed had made way for more ethereal fare. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography They would first make a hecatomb of their hated foes, and then fall upon it. The Lone Ranche It was high time that an end should be put to those hecatombs of human victims, slashed, torn open and devoured on all the little occasions of life. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure Then they immediately placed in order the splendid hecatomb for the god around the well-built altar. The Iliad of Homer (1873) Homer writes of a ‘hecatomb’ not of a hundred, but of twelve, oxen; and elsewhere of Hebe he says, in words not reproducible in English, νέκταρ ἐωνοχόει. English Past and Present And down in the south, where the spongy and resinous trees were drying in the heat, they were starting forest fires and perishing in them in hecatombs. Oomphel in the Sky An artist will learn more about life and character with the help of those three, than all the savants in creation could imbibe from a hecatomb of books. The Great Amulet Excuse me, Bertram; I am not worthy to be singled out From such exalted hecatombs—who are they That are in danger, and that make the danger? The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 Thus, therefore, the dreadful portents of the gods approached the hecatombs. The Iliad of Homer (1873) Forgetful of this useless hecatomb at war's relentless shrine, America echoed the gratulations of the victors which fell with scathing power on the heart of the trembling Mary. Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest To a sensitive mind, the butchers' shops, gorged with the flesh of fat beeves, or the poulterers, with their hecatombs of turkeys, are repulsive, to say the least. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide The ancient Pythoness must have a hecatomb, the writing medium a dollar, and the modern Pythoness of the platform a dime. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity "Tales of the chase, my dear, of hecatombs of field-mice and squirrels!" Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers They themselves then went forth on the breakers of the sea, and disembarked the hecatomb to far-darting Apollo, and then they made the daughter of Chryses descend from the sea-traversing bark. The Iliad of Homer (1873) Several places of worship were opened with feasts, at which huge hecatombs of swine were consumed—1,370 at one festival. Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field What a hecatomb of mouldering bones would bestrew those fields of ice! The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Were all undue anxiety Eliminated from desire, Could feverish fears and fancies be Consumèd on some funeral pyre, Like holy hecatomb or sacrifice, 'Twould be accepted up in Paradise. Poems Vol. IV Then for a spouse so goodly, before each spirit of heaven, Me thou vowd'st, with slain oxen, a vast hecatomb, 35 Home if again he alighted. The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Dost thou not perceive how the long-haired Greeks have built a wall before their shipping, and have drawn a ditch all round, nor have they given splendid hecatombs to the gods? The Iliad of Homer (1873) An hecatomb of characters supplies Thy painted altars' daily sacrifice. The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 I slew men in hecatombs; and then, when the morning came and I awoke, there was not a shred of intellectual wrack left behind on which my mind could take hold. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O As for his sacrifices, they were by the hecatomb. The Arian Controversy We should gain nothing by preventing them from keeping Christmas in their own way, and it would have been a nobler thing to reserve our blows for other hecatombs. In the Field (1914-1915) The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry But the son of Atreus 37 launched his swift ship into the sea, and selected and put into it twenty rowers, and embarked a hecatomb for the god. The Iliad of Homer (1873) Yes," said Stoss, "but your old English rector first filled his belly with a few hecatombs of human lives. Atlantis "Beef Halt, so called because of the hecatombs of oxen we consume." The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars A hecatomb of victims was but a small offering. Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans But for science we should be still worshipping fetishes; or, with hecatombs of victims, propitiating diabolical deities. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library We spend our lives in murdering hecatombs of creeping and jumping things, and vehemently slapping our own faces with intent to kill the flying ones that incessantly buzz about one. Records of a Girlhood I go to charge our senators and wives That they address the Gods with prayers and vows For our success, and hecatombs devote. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper As the blood and smoke of so many hecatombs might be inconvenient, Lightfoot, the Christian Rabbi, removes them by a miracle. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 “And to thee will they raise many statues in the temples: as these thy deeds are three, so men will sacrifice to thee hecatombs every three years.” The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological Your drowsy Circassian, faint and dreamy, or your crockery Georgian—fit dolls for the sensual Turk—is, to him who would buy soul, dear at a penny the hecatomb. Initial Studies in American Letters They listened long and intently, but not a single sound came from the great hecatomb. The Texan Scouts A Story of the Alamo and Goliad See'st thou yon height of wall, and yon deep trench With which the Grecians have their fleet inclosed,530 And, careless of our blessing, hecatomb Or invocation have presented none? The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper September passed by, hecatombs of partridges were slaughtered, and the day of the wedding drew nigh. The Claverings But the God of Hua Shan knew that the King had been deprived of a male heir as a punishment for the bloody hecatombs during his three years’ war. Myths and Legends of China Your ha! ha!—especially should it precede the name of Sam Rogers—would inevitably cost you a hecatomb of dinners. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841 On great occasions large sacrifices were offered of numerous victims,—as the hecatomb, which means a hundred oxen. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Bid bright Astræa gild the morn, Or bid a hundred suns be born, To hecatomb the year; Without thy aid, in vain the poles, In vain the zodiac system rolls, In vain the lunar sphere. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 The "Liberal Century" after having accumulated an infinity of Gordian knots, sought to cut them in the hecatomb of the World War. Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado He then vowed a hecatomb and sacred games in honour of the god, and ordered his officers to arrange the men in line of battle. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I If he should travel about the country he would have hecatombs of roasted oxen sacrificed to him. Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) And on Freedom's altar—ah, I fear—still, may slay thy hecatombs. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II No reproach this, to Belisarius' heart of game; for the most intrepid Feegee warrior, he who has slain his hecatombs, will not go ten yards in the dark alone, for fear of ghosts. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I What! immolate a whole hecatomb of guiltless women and children? Cobwebs from an Empty Skull There was nothing unusual, unless indeed it was the assiduousness of the young Duchess, who from morning until night ceased not to offer hecatombs for the safety and freedom of her lord. Mistress Penwick One cannot imagine what those horrible hecatombs are, when a powerful chief's memory must be fitly honored among these tribes of Central Africa. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen In the old days children were sacrificed to a brazen burning god, but time affects more subtile hecatombs: for Moloch slew outright. Figures of Earth So, in a more than different way, we shall find him—who had slain his hecatomb of hearts—helpless in the power of his one great love. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 Such were the days; and each day the terror-stricken city offered up its hecatomb to death; and the faces of all the dead were yellow as flame! Chita: a Memory of Last Island If the dispersion of this malaria demands a human hecatomb, it would evidently be better to sacrifice criminals than honest husbandmen. Criminal Sociology The glory of the first recoiled upon the second, and served as an excuse for the hecatombs of the Terror, the ferocity of the civil war, and the devastation of France. The Psychology of Revolution During twenty years the nations were engaged in internecine conflict, and Europe witnessed hecatombs that would have terrified Ghengis Khan and Tamerlane. The Crowd; study of the popular mind You at least shall live no more to be a fell bane to men who eat the fruit of the all-nourishing earth, and who will bring hither perfect hecatombs. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica She found his Homer, with its slaughters and hecatombs and barbaric feastings and headstrong passions, violent and coarse. The Octopus : A story of California Or, did he stop after the last hecatomb? Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Its fury and its hecatombs will then become intelligible. The Psychology of Revolution The reason was that this veritable hecatomb was not embodied in any visible image, but was only learnt from statistical information furnished weekly. The Crowd; study of the popular mind You may so stew, distill, and titillate your palate with essences that a hecatomb shall be swallowed at every meal. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Between the two armies lay the hecatombs of dead and the thousands of wounded. The Rock of Chickamauga A Story of the Western Crisis What slaughter'd hecatombs, what floods of wine, Fill the capacious squire, and deep divine! The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 She would trample upon a hecatomb of hearts to arrive at the object of her ambition. The Lovels of Arden Why, oh, why must these reeking hecatombs load our tables, when they might as easily be kept out of sight upon a buffet? London Pride Or When the World Was Younger I believe, in different climes, I have already sacrificed an hecatomb to my Nemesis, in pursuance of this vow. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 O, why could he not offer a hecatomb of these common creatures as a substitute for that one fair spirit? Charlotte's Inheritance Nothing was more Hoffmanesque than this slaughter of pigs at the period I am speaking about, for since then a sentiment of humanity has crept, although still somewhat timidly, into this temple of porcine hecatombs. My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt If we want to have a literal translation of this sculpture, and find the modern representation of a hecatomb, we must go to the slaughter-houses at La Villette. Saint Augustin I suppose you have a score of new works, all of which I hope to see flourishing, with a hecatomb of reviews. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 Its more than hundred hecatombs of dead represent several times that number of their brethren, for whom the prison gates of Belle Isle, Danville, Salisbury, Florence, Columbia, and Cahaba open'd only in eternity. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Or it may be, the last entertainment is that hecatomb they call a wedding breakfast, which celebrates the triumph of a rival. Endymion He never doubted it then and he never doubted it afterward, through all the vast hecatomb when the flag of the Union fell more than once in terrible defeat. The Sword of Antietam A Story of the Nation's Crisis Error and folly have had their hecatombs of martyrs. Daniel Deronda Strange to reflect that, without the ephemeral friendship of that evening, Messina of to-day might have represented to my mind a mere spectacle, the hecatomb of its inhabitants extorting little more than a conventional sigh. Old Calabria Consumption had swept a hecatomb of victims from the family. The Eustace Diamonds The march of invention was white with the bleaching bones of innumerable hecatombs of victims. Equality Marius washed his hands, raised them to heaven, and vowed to offer a hecatomb to the gods. Battle Studies Useless hecatombs, which the induced egotism of the world behind the lines thought natural; cruelties on all sides, criminal reprisals for crimes—for which these good people clamoured, and loudly applauded. Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War But the Muses and the Graces are his hard mistresses; though he daily invocate them, though he sacrifice hecatombs, they still look asquint. Character Writings of the 17th Century If so, the demon to whom some nations offer human hecatombs is less barbarous than the deity of civilized society!” A History of Freedom of Thought What does a hecatomb of twenty thousand wretches signify? The Reign of Greed The hecatombs sacrificed at Lyons, and the "Red Masses" of Orange, have all been described. The Theory of Social Revolutions They were human scalps, collected by himself, in the course of many campaigns, and brought, as a species of hecatomb, to the graves of the fallen. Wyandotte But in the copious will—the revelling imagination of your host—the "mind, the mind, Master Shallow," whole beeves were spread before you—hecatombs—no end appeared to the profusion. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia But even when they came back alive they carried with them the germs of death, and another hecatomb ensued, another sacrifice to the monstrous god of social egotism. Fruitfulness Then the hecatomb is preparing: let the unfit perish and only the strongest survive!” The Reign of Greed And toil, and hecatombs of broken hearts, With fear and self-contempt and barren hope.' Adonais If the case stands thus, if the Fates are mistresses of all, and their decisions unalterable, then why do men sacrifice to you, and bring hecatombs, and pray for good at your hands? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 There were few families in Scotland which did not contribute to that hecatomb, whereof the memory is enshrined in the national song of lamentation, "The Flowers of the Forest". England under the Tudors Bid bright Astraea gild the morn, Or bid a hundred suns be born, To hecatomb the year; Without thy aid, in vain the poles, In vain the zodiac system rolls, In vain the lunar sphere. The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe The foundations of the houses, and all ground inside the wall, are ivory; temples are built of beryl, and each contains an altar of one amethyst block, on which they offer hecatombs. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 Almost no day passed but the communiqué…. ascribed to the Germans with some appearance of justice heavy losses, extremely heavy, spoke of bloody sacrifices, heaps of corpses, hecatombs. Public Opinion When the hecatombs are getting ready, you think nothing of a journey to the ends of the earth to see the 'blameless Ethiopians'; and my reward for procuring you these advantages is—crucifixion! Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 I want more blood for my money—hecatombs of corpses. Without Prejudice Then on the shingly breakwater themselves They landed, and the sacred hecatomb To great Apollo; and Chryseis last. The Iliad Next on the shore their hecatomb they land; Chryseis last descending on the strand. The Iliad The interest in the hecatombs of Moors and even in the fall of Valencia is a secondary one. The Lay of the Cid Health is to be had, say, for a calf; wealth, for a couple of yoke of oxen; a kingdom, for a hecatomb. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 Major Rogers, famous as an elephant shooter in Ceylon, ceased to count his victims after he had slain 1,300, and Cumming in South Africa sacrificed his hecatombs every month. The Earth as Modified by Human Action If we had had one or two hounds to send into the thickets we might have made hecatombs of them. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville One from a hundred feather'd deaths he chose, Fated to wound, and cause of future woes; Then offers vows with hecatombs to crown Apollo's altars in his native town. The Iliad He is now the court god; and well applied With sacrifice of knees, of crooks, and cringes; He will do more than all the house of heaven Can, for a thousand hecatombs. Sejanus: His Fall They have butchered hecatombs of Swiss, even to porters in private houses, because they often are, and always are called, Le Suisse. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Apollo might speed among them his silver arrows, which erst heaped the Phrygian shores with hecatombs of Argive slain, and they would but complain of the mosquito's beak. The Fiend's Delight He might have been the master of hounds, or the slaughterer of hecatombs of birds. The Small House at Allington Along the shore whole hecatombs were laid, And bulls and goats to Phoebus' altars paid; The sable fumes in curling spires arise, And waft their grateful odours to the skies. The Iliad The hecatomb of the weak is enormous, but that matters little so long as the victors' reward be effectual and certain. The Life of the Bee Make a hecatomb of the present Hamleys all at once, while you are about it. Wives and Daughters But the time for the hecatomb was approaching. Robur the Conqueror What a hecatomb of Bees must not a colony of these freebooters make for their personal consumption, not to mention the stored provisions! More Hunting Wasps Go bathe, and robed in white ascend the towers; With all thy handmaids thank the immortal powers; To every god vow hecatombs to bleed. The Odyssey One story of the kind, well examined and with logical comments, would be more convincing to a third party than a whole hecatomb of them. The Lady of the Shroud No seat for me; I must go back to the streams of Ocean, to the Ethiopians' land where they sacrifice hecatombs to the immortal gods, that I too may feast at their rites. The Iliad It is celebrated for the frightful cruelties which signalize its annual festivals, and by its human sacrifices—fearful hecatombs intended to honor the sovereign it has lost and the sovereign who has succeeded him. Robur the Conqueror For they sell a small pot of fish for as much as a hecatomb of sheep and all the accessories of sacrifice. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Why cease ye then to implore the powers above, And offer hecatombs to thundering Jove? The Odyssey Beyond this you know now that of which I was in partial ignorance: how he had, through the skill and devotion of your new Admiral, wrought destruction on a hecatomb of our malignant foes. The Lady of the Shroud So when the dread portent brake in upon the hecatombs of the gods, then did Kalchas forthwith prophesy, and said: 'Why hold ye your peace, ye flowing-haired Achaians? The Iliad Then honor Him with a hecatomb," replied Petronius, with an accent of impatience, "but do not beg Him to save her a second time. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero What slaughtered hecatombs, what floods of wine, Fill the capacious squire, and deep divine! An Essay on Man Hence springs their confidence, and from our sighs Their rapine strengthens, and their riots rise: Constant as Jove the night and day bestows, Bleeds a whole hecatomb, a vintage flows. The Odyssey He escorted Chryseis on board and sent moreover a hecatomb for the god. The Iliad Seest thou not how the flowing-haired Achaians have now again built them a wall before their ships, and drawn a foss around it, but gave not excellent hecatombs to the gods? The Iliad I have not burned Rome; but if C�sar permitted I would give a hecatomb at once to their divinity. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Whole hecatombs of petty rulers were sacrificed at this time to the Visconti alone. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy The baron, who considered the enterprise useless, left the region before the affair of La Penissiere, or the house of Guenic would probably have ended in that hecatomb. Beatrix We were ranged round about a fountain offering hecatombs to the gods upon their holy altars, and there was a fine plane-tree from beneath which there welled a stream of pure water. The Iliad There are nine of these great halls, for all ranks, from His Highness downwards, where many hecatombs are roasted daily, according to the accounts, and where cooking goes on with a savage Homeric grandeur. From Cornhill to Grand Cairo To Nestor first and to his sons vouchsafe renown, and thereafter grant to all the people of Pylos a gracious recompense for this splendid hecatomb. The Odyssey Done into English prose Meanwhile the heralds were bringing the holy hecatomb through the city, and the Achaeans gathered under the shady grove of Apollo. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original We have already noted the fable that his enthusiasm over this discovery led him to sacrifice a hecatomb. A History of Science — Volume 1 Then they offered hecatombs of bulls and goats without blemish on the sea-shore, and the smoke with the savour of their sacrifice rose curling up towards heaven. The Iliad They were almost innumerable, and seemed to have been a vast hecatomb offered up in thanksgiving to the Great Spirit for some signal success in the chase. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West Then back I went to the waters of Aegyptus, the heaven-fed stream, and there I moored the ships and offered the acceptable sacrifice of hecatombs. The Odyssey Done into English prose She heeded her son's words, washed her face, changed her dress, and vowed full and sufficient hecatombs to all the gods if they would only vouchsafe her revenge upon the suitors. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original To each man a whole one was allotted, and we bore the steaming hecatomb into the forecastle. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Seeing, then, that such a fearful portent had broken in upon our hecatombs, Calchas forthwith declared to us the oracles of heaven. The Iliad And what can Europe say, when with a laugh Old Asia heaps her hecatombs of dead? The Congo and Other Poems And she washed her in water, and took to her fresh raiment, and vowed to all the gods an acceptable sacrifice of hecatombs, if haply Zeus might grant that deeds of requital should be made. The Odyssey Done into English prose I was trying to come on here, but the gods detained me in Egypt, for my hecatombs had not given them full satisfaction, and the gods are very strict about having their dues. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original So saying he gave the girl over to her father, who received her gladly, and they ranged the holy hecatomb all orderly round the altar of the god. The Iliad See you not how the Achaeans have built a wall about their ships and driven a trench all round it, without offering hecatombs to the gods? The Iliad They then got out upon the sea-shore and landed the hecatomb for Apollo; Chryseis also left the ship, and Ulysses led her to the altar to deliver her into the hands of her father. The Iliad Now the henchmen were leading through the town the holy hecatomb of the gods, and lo, the long-haired Achaeans were gathered beneath the shady grove of Apollo, the prince of archery. The Odyssey Done into English prose I again stationed my ships in the heaven-fed stream of Egypt, and offered hecatombs that were full and sufficient. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original He will not deliver the Danaans from this pestilence till Agamemnon has restored the girl without fee or ransom to her father, and has sent a holy hecatomb to Chryse. The Iliad The other gods had all been feasted with hecatombs, but to the daughter of great Jove alone he had made no sacrifice. The Iliad More especially we pray thee send down thy grace on Nestor and on his sons; thereafter also make the rest of the Pylian people some handsome return for the goodly hecatomb they are offering you. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original
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