Slaying Quotes
Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.
Athenaeum magazine, p. 498, April 13, 1861.
It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!
Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things”, p.134, Yearling
Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?
Brian Jacques, Peter Standley (2002). “Taggerung”
George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.1525, e-artnow