Imyself believethat wehave lostthiswaröineverything but actuality.When I see scores of sheep go to a slaughter-house I do not feel constrained to admire their resignation.

-Grieve
  Letter to George Ogilvie,12 Nov.

Are you grown an atheist? Will you turn your body, Which is the goodly palace of the soul, To the soul's slaughter-house? Oh, the curse'  d devil, Which doth present us with all other sins Thrice-candied o'er.

-Webster,John
  TheWhite Devil, act 5, sc.6.