It was fortunate that they did this, for the spoilers found the tracks leading to the cavern and massacred every soul it contained.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
The old things that they had of late so hated, as spoilers of their lives, they knew that they would not always hate-if now they went down into the shadowed streets and took them again, striving to forget, in the end all but forgetting, this cleavage which so lay across life.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
Such a scene would not have been complete without its miracle, and they had the satisfaction of tracing the hand of Providence in the blindness of their spoilers to a small box of consecrated hosts hidden away in a cupboard, whose contents were turned upside down by rough hands of the mob.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes