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Updated: July 16, 2025
The job was not a profitable one in itself, and the rain made it worse; time was wasted; we could not work while Radish was obliged to pay the fellows by the day. The hungry painters almost came to beating him, called him a cheat, a blood-sucker, a Judas, while he, poor fellow, sighed, lifted up his hand to Heaven in despair, and was continually going to Madame Tcheprakov for money.
"You can't bluff me on the hand I've got. Give me a sheet of paper, somebody yes, that will do." He scrawled a half-dozen lines, fairly digging the pen into the sheet in his fierce eagerness, and then signed the document, flinging the paper across toward Kirby. "There, you blood-sucker," he cried insolently. "Is that all right? Will that do?"
'Come, then, here; strike yourself, here, he began, his eyes puckering up and the corners of his mouth dropping; 'come, cursed destroyer of men's souls! drink Christian blood, drink. The forester turned round. 'I'm speaking to you, Asiatic, blood-sucker, you! 'Are you drunk or what, to set to being abusive? began the forester, puzzled. 'Are you out of your senses, hey?
Thus leeched in a large stream, a horse will often faint before he can reach the opposite shore, and he then becomes a prey to the gar fish; if the stream is but small and the animal is not exhausted, he will run madly to the shore and roll to get rid of his terrible blood-sucker, which, however, will adhere to him, till one or the other of them dies from exhaustion, or from repletion.
The local direction of the wind might vary, but it was still the same polar draught, the blood-sucker; for, like a vampire, it sucks the very blood and moisture out of delicate human life, just as it dries up the sap in the branch.
About the Vampire, or the blood-sucker, there are different opinions: that of the East is said to be quite harmless; but it is asserted that the South American species love to attach themselves to all cattle, especially to horses with long manes, because they can cling to the hair while they suck the veins, and keep their victim quiet by flapping their wings over its head; they also fasten themselves upon the tail for the first reason, and a great loss of blood frequently ensues.
"Something there is which preys on her like the blood-sucker on the rabbit's throat. But what? Holy Mother, what?" His handsome eyes were troubled. By dawn on the following day the trading had begun.
Knight herself he had called a blood-sucker, it seemed the good woman shook with rage at the memory and he had threatened her with the direst retribution if she persisted in attempting to fasten herself upon him. Bob, he had explained, was a loafer whom he had supported out of a sense of duty; if the idiot was ungrateful he would simply have to suffer the consequences.
You had better go home, my man, than, by your presence, countenance such a gross absurdity." "For all that," said the man, "Sir Francis Varney is a vampyre a blood-sucker a human blood-sucker!" "Get away with you," said the officer, "and do not repeat such folly before any one."
"Look here, you cussed villain," said Jerry Swinger, who, in the struggle, had got his antagonist under him, and had drawn from his pocket a long clasp-knife, "if you stir an inch, I'll put this blood-sucker through your shrivelled-up gizzard!" Vernon attempted to rise, bowie-knife in hand, to the conflict.
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