killing-time

He endeavoured to make them aware also, that hasty wedlock had been the bane of many a savoury professor — that the unbelieving wife had too often reversed the text and perverted the believing husband — that when the famous Donald Cargill, being then hiding in Lee – Wood, in Lanarkshire, it being killing-time, did, upon importunity, marry Robert Marshal of Starry

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

The period of this tale is in the heat of the killing-time; the scene laid for the most part in solitary hills and morasses, haunted only by the so-called Mountain

Lay Morals 2005

Thus the killing-time, with its festivities, became later and later.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

In killing-time they put down hecatombs of beef in snow and of ham and sausage in hot lard, and they have stores of cod-fish to be cooked with cream, and of chickens for potpies, which are never made properly, for some mysterious reason, save by a farmer's wife.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

Archbishop Sharp, of the battles of Drumclog and Bothwell Bridge, and of those terrible years still spoken of in Scotland as the "killing-time."

Claverhouse Mowbray Morris 1879

The Killing Time variously capitalised as killing-time, Killing-time,

Claverhouse Mowbray Morris 1879

With the brutal promptitude peculiar to that well-named "killing-time," four of them were drawn up on the road and instantly shot, and buried where they fell, by Lochenkit Moor, where a monument now marks their resting place.

Hunted and Harried 1859

Covenanters, especially of the awful killing-time, when the powers of darkness were let loose on the land to do their worst, and when the blood of Scotland's martyrs flowed like water.

Hunted and Harried 1859

At killing-time, each man either came himself, or sent some one to claim his hogs; all of which were slaughtered on the Peak, and carried away in the form of pork.

The Crater James Fenimore Cooper 1820

And now, in 1680, began what has been termed _the killing-time_; in which Graham of Claverhouse (afterwards Viscount

Hunted and Harried 1859