Those were savage times when this old slaughter-house was in its prime.

Now it seems that the rest of her flock are the ones heading for the slaughter-house, instead.

He'd been here before, not like this but behind a gun, herding some other man to the slaughter-house.

From the first he hung round the slaughter-house which stood away in the third yard at the back of the farm.

He took them to a slaughter-house where they saw a butcher killing a sheep.

I can still remember, as a boy, the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughter-house.

The other roared like a bull who smells the blood of the slaughter-house.

In the slaughter-house I saw cattle being pushed into a narrow gangway.

In an instant the court was turned into a battle-ground which soon resembled a slaughter-house.

Panting like a goat in the slaughter-house she waited for the blow to fall.

A mansion built next to a slaughter-house is another example of external obsolescence.

Was there ever a slaughter-house like that ship!

Case is your real slaughter-house charge at close quarters, but I am afraid we have none?'

In the ruined building there was the sort of noise that comes out of a slaughter-house.

While a slaughter-house was made of the nation by the capitalist, the Church was dumb.

It was a slaughter-house, so help me God.

Children would also climbed up the slaughter-house wall to take a look at cattle being pole-axed.

The preparations started in a building owned by one of the nine founders, formerly used as a private slaughter-house.

I give a blue ticket and a bladder that I got at the slaughter-house.

Sam works at 'the big slaughter-house across the bridge at the foot of the hill' known as 'the Works'.

A scream of anguish that belonged in a slaughter-house.

Your men couldn't take sheep to a slaughter-house!

The boys never stopped till they reached the shed of a deserted slaughter-house at the lower end of the village.

At the slaughter­house a hi-tech scanner analyses marbling, colour and fat quantity of each animal.

At Huntington, new estates were built completely surrounding the very active slaughter-house and rendering plant.

One of the true things was his first evening in the slaughterhouse.

The man from the slaughterhouse knew what everyone knows around here.

A step to the slaughterhouse would have been a short one.

In the Slaughterhouse at least you had a chance to fight for your life.

Jim left them to it, and went down to the slaughterhouse.

When they left me at the Slaughterhouse, that door closed.

The buildings were in use as a slaughterhouse until 1996.

Billy saw only one other person on the way to the slaughterhouse.

Each looked as if he'd stepped out of a slaughterhouse.

It was like a dead man loose in a slaughterhouse.

He was taken to a slaughterhouse and killed for meat.

By 12 to 14 weeks, the whole flock is ready for the slaughterhouse.

I felt as if we'd taken a stroll through a slaughterhouse.

Her trouble, he decided, was that she'd never been at the Slaughterhouse.

Before this it had been an association between various local slaughterhouses.

She wants to show them a slaughterhouse, but the children freak out.

She said it was like seeing animals on their way to a slaughterhouse.

In the period from 1928 to 1996 it was largely known for its slaughterhouse.

The site was originally used as a slaughterhouse from 1908 to 1999.

She might have to work the slaughterhouse yard, but not her daughter.

A spur goes off to the west, toward a place where a slaughterhouse used to be.

The diagnosis is sent to the slaughterhouse the next day.

What you've seen here happens in every slaughterhouse on the planet.

In about 1940 a military camp was established on the slaughterhouse site.

The first important case of this kind to be decided was the so-called Slaughterhouse cases in 1873.