BUTCHER

Related Subjects: Meat, Murder

1. Butchers! whose hands are dy'd with blood's foul stain,
   And always foremost in the hangman's train.—JOHN GAY, Trivia
   

2. Whoe'er has gone thro' London street,
   Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat,
   And how he keeps
   Gloating upon a sheep's
   Or bullock's personals, as if his own;
   How he admires his halves
   And quarters—and his calves,
   As if in truth upon his own legs grown.—THOMAS HOOD, A Butcher
   

3. Of brutal juices the whole man is full.—
   In fact, fulfilling the metempsychosis,
   The Butcher is already half a Bull.—THOMAS HOOD, A Butcher
   

4. A sturdy man he look'd to fell an ox,
   Bull-fronted, ruddy, with a formal streak
   Of well-greas'd hair down either cheek.—THOMAS HOOD, Ode to Rae Wilson
   

5. Where is that devil's butcher?—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
   

6. Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh
   And sees fast by a butcher with an axe,
   But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?—SHAKESPEARE,Henry VI
   

7. The butcher looked for his knife and it was in his mouth.—SWIFT, Polite Conversation
   

8. The butcher in his killing clothes.—WALT WHITMAN, The Workingmen