The murderers were too thrifty to be at funeral charges for their victims.

The ceremony was not hastily performed, for the number of corpses had not been completed.

Two days longer the havoc lasted in the city.

Of all the crimes which men can commit, whether from deliberate calculation or in the frenzy of passion, hardly one was omitted, for riot, gaming, rape, which had been postponed to the more stringent claims of robbery and murder, were now rapidly added to the sum of atrocities.

History has recorded the account indelibly on her brazen tablets; it can be adjusted only at the judgment-seat above.
Of all the deeds of darkness yet compassed in the Netherlands, this was the worst.