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.