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Professional fishermen have fished for the market, sawmills have been allowed to empty their sawdust into the rivers, and probably alien miners and others have massacred wholesale with dynamite.

From Fishing in British Columbia With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina by Lambert, Thomas Wilson

Since you have massacred all the bears," said Iglesias, "I will go lay me down in their lair in the barn.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various

How old Landor, who "gushed" from cradle to grave, would have massacred and rended in his wrath such talkers!

From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus

The argument for tracing back the great conspiracy to the discontented rajahs is—that otherwise, and supposing the mutiny raised for objects specially affecting the sepoys, they would not have massacred their officers.

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Hogg, James