But as a sacrifice, the slaughter of human victims, though perhaps not regular, was at least not exceptional, and the frightful bloodshed which the Old Testament attests emphasises the difficulties which confronted those teachers { 43} of Israel who would disassociate their national God from an inveterate practice (Ezek. xvi.
— from The Religion of Ancient Palestine in the Second Millenium B.C. by Stanley Arthur Cook

Again, in Propertius, El. xvii.
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 by Robert Dodsley