bear-den

Updated: May 11, 2025

What was left over he used for the purpose of pitting the bloodthirsty demagogues one against the other, making of the National Assembly a gigantic bear-den, wherein wild beasts could rend one another limb from limb. In the meanwhile, what cared he he said it himself whether hundreds of innocent martyrs perished miserably and uselessly?

Baroness Emmuska Orczy - El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel