Hecatombs [noun]

Thus it seemed the practice of making a hecatomb of dogs and cats on these sad occasions.

Then Cinna, who not long before would have laughed at faith in Hecate, sacrificed a hecatomb to her.

Or it may be, the last entertainment is that hecatomb they call a wedding breakfast, which celebrates the triumph of a rival.

Above all the anguish and tears of that immense hecatomb will appear the shade of Lincoln as the symbol of hope and of pardon.

Yearly will Charless Bath claim its hecatomb; I know not why.

We have already noted the fable that his enthusiasm over this discovery led him to sacrifice a hecatomb.

Without it, France, like Carthage, would have bled to death on the hecatomb of her own lust.

Then they immediately placed in order the splendid hecatomb for the god around the well-built altar.

How will the quaking lips which throughout the length and breadth of this vast hecatomb now cry, "Sauve qui peut!"

Endymion to heaven's airy dome Was offering up a hecatomb of vows, When these words reach'd him.