Both men were slain instantly, their spines severed.

He too was slain instantly, if not with the same dramatic impact.

To break the position otherwise is to be instantly slain.

As many as twenty million Poles would either be worked to death in labor camps or slain instantly.

Had he lived among badgers, who have a far more rigid code, I tell you, he would have been slain instantly.

The Captain of the Greenfang fell backward into the sea, slain instantly.

It says much for the tolerance of these beings that on my recapture I was not instantly slain.

Your companions will be held prisoners to be slain instantly if you transgress.

The Hitts have never raided for prisoners and any who do fall into their hands are instantly slain.

"Any other creature would have been instantly slain," he boasted.