hecatombs

Near the ceiling long lines of bugs marched all day like columns of soldiers, and at night came down ravenously hungry, so that one had to get up every few hours and kill them in hecatombs.

Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

A strange smile hovered on their lips at that sad sight; but other speakers, mounted on the rostrum, began to publicly estimate what ambition had cost and how very dear was glory; they pointed out the horror of war and called the hecatombs butcheries.

The Confession of a Child of the Century Alfred de Musset 1833

Here is the "great altar" of Athena, whereon the "hecatombs" will be sacrificed, even

A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life William Stearns Davis 1903

Judging at least by our own reactions to these marvels of nature ” admittedly a risky procedure ” one could imagine that these mysterious sites, harboring dangerous animals but also offering shelter, could have become the center of such propitiating rituals, demanding and receiving symbolic "hecatombs" of sacrifice.

The Miracle at Chauvet Gombrich, Ernst 1996

It would determine “whether America has in reality gained by that change which has been thought so glorious—and whether those hecatombs of American heroes, whose blood so freely shed at the shrine of liberty, fell in vain.”

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

It would determine “whether America has in reality gained by that change which has been thought so glorious—and whether those hecatombs of American heroes, whose blood so freely shed at the shrine of liberty, fell in vain.”

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

It would determine “whether America has in reality gained by that change which has been thought so glorious—and whether those hecatombs of American heroes, whose blood so freely shed at the shrine of liberty, fell in vain.”

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

And stanley, you forgot to mention a certain faction of the 20th century, along with their myriads of hecatombs.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

Che is about the only Stalinist that anybody could assert has a following in the United States, although I can see why you rabid antireds are shying away from that particular example, if the standard is to be hecatombs of kulaks.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Paul Hollander on the Fall of Communism 2009

One suspects that "while hecatombs are hurried to the tomb"9 does not achieve quite the effect that Gough desired.

The Little Professor: 2009