"Death-roll" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... flinging themselves into the wildest debauchery; of robber bands assassinating the dying and plundering the dead; of three thousand neglected children collected in one hospital and then left to die; and of the death-roll numbering at last fifty thousand out of a population ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White
... story short, I may state briefly that in the second part of the action—the second act of a tragedy, it was for the Malays—both the bluejackets and the men of the Hankow Lin got off scot-free, not another casualty happening to swell the death-roll, or a fresh wound of any consequence being received by any of those engaged. The surprise to the pirates on finding they had "caught a Tartar," instead of assailing a defenceless merchant vessel, as they had expected, was so complete, that, in nautical phraseology, ...
— The Penang Pirate - and, The Lost Pinnace • John Conroy Hutcheson |
