The street being still deserted, the captain sent horsemen behind the houses, in order to keep a hold on the hamlet from the side of the fields, and ordered the lansquenets to bring before him all infants of two years old or over, that they might be Massacred, even as it is written in the Gospel of Saint Matthew.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
Whole farms had been burnt, and whole families Massacred in the immediate neighbourhood of the city.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot
Here they had been discovered by the victorious impi, and being taken for Igazipuza, would have been Massacred on the spot but for the intervention of the sub-chief, Matela, who suggested that they should be led before Sobuza, who, with his advance guard, was then in pursuit of Vunawayo and a few surviving fugitives.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford