Accordingly, when she had gained her bedchamber, bolted herself in, andbegan to meditate on the scene she had just witnessed, the most terrificpictures of slaughter and destruction presented themselves to herimagination; among which, a full-length portrait of Mr. Peter Magnusborne home by four men, with the embellishment of a whole barrelfulof bullets in his left side, was among the very least.
(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) I was vaguely recalling, all the time, something that DeQuincey says about Mr. Williams, that ghastly criminal who slaughteredtwo whole families almost in silence.