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King Ferdinand of Bulgaria was able to draw his subjects into an alliance with the Turks, who had massacred their fathers in 1876, against the Russians, who had saved them from destruction.

From The Expansion of Europe The Culmination of Modern History by Muir, Ramsay

They had massacred his beautiful play and, doing so had not even made a success of it by their own sordid commercial lights.

From Jill the Reckless by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

"But what a gross misrepresentation of facts it was to say that you had massacred the natives," cried Phyllis indignantly.

From Phyllis of Philistia by Moore, Frank Frankfort

Mr. Peasley said that if there was anything in the transmigration theory, he figured that he had massacred a regiment of soldiers, several boards of directors, a high school and an insane asylum.

From In Pastures New by Ade, George

Cato insisted that Caesar had massacred a defenceless people in a time of truce, that he had broken the law of nations, and that he ought to be given up to the Germans.

From Caesar: a Sketch by Froude, James Anthony