Slaying in example sentence

We logged 9,720 miles when we passed between the Tonga Islands, where crews from the Argo, Port-au-Prince, and Duke of Portland had perished, and the island group of Samoa, scene of the slaying of Captain de Langle, friend of that long-lost navigator, the Count de La Pérouse.

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Instead of slaying a beast, Hercules next had to catch one, alive.

It says a different warrior, named Gwawrddur, was skilled at slaying his enemies, but was no Arthur.

The Argonauts were similarly unaware of their surroundings, and fought blunderingly in the dark, slaying wave after wave of foe.

In the original, he had avenged his parents' slaying by wiping out a huge mob organization in Mexico.

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