What happened here was sacred business, not the bloody slaughter of the battlefield.

The end of four years of bloody slaughter in Europe.

And they see this as the opening round in a new push for answers to what their documents call the "bloody slaughter" of June 1989.

True, there was a bloody slaughter in Korea in 1971.

Three months of bloody slaughter and what do we have to show for it?

It is a tragic situation and a bloody slaughter.

Then there would be red, bloody slaughter, as always.

There would still have been another bloody slaughter on both sides if the bat-birds had attacked that night.

For a long minute, there was bloody slaughter on the dock.

It was sad to see such sordid and bloody slaughter.