| As the author rightly acknowledges, it is not a history of the slaughterous campaign, but the story of the experiences of the 1st and 6th battalions. |
| Conquests, triumphs, and slaughterous glory are not very nice till they have ceased to drip. |
| But if American politicians echo the terrorists' blood-lusting, this tragedy will have been turned to slaughterous folly. |
| As our men, on the other hand, were no less determined to take it, the contest became furious and slaughterous. |
| You may not get the barber's chair but you get a strong sense of a man in the grip of slaughterous madness. |
| At last my slaughterous appetite was gratified, and a blue-cow bore witness to the merit of my rifle, if not to my marksmanship. |
