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'Say! We must have made a glorious slaughter of them in the bush. Eh? What do you think? Say? He positively danced, the bloodthirsty little gingery beggar. And he had nearly fainted when he saw the wounded man! I could not help saying, 'You made a glorious lot of smoke, anyhow. I had seen, from the way the tops of the bushes rustled and flew, that almost all the shots had gone too high.
And I think," added he, with a becoming modesty, "that the Macleods were by far the most treacherous and savage and bloodthirsty of the whole lot of them." And now the fair stranger beside him addressed him for the first time; and as she did so, she turned her eyes towards him clear, large eyes that rather startled one when the heavy lids were lifted, so full of expression were they.
Vane," said Clinton, turning pale, "I don't think I could go as far as that." "I thought you were my friend, Mr. Clinton," said Harry, reproachfully. "So I am, but I think you are, too too bloodthirsty, Mr. Vane. It is best to be prudent, don't you know. There's that Yankee, Mr.
They always have been warlike and perhaps naturally cruel, and at the time of our arrival in the country they had about attained their most bloodthirsty and murderous character. Shocking ill-treatment by white skalawags and United States officials had changed their nature; but more about them also by-and-by. North of us were the numerous and powerful Navajo Indians.
It is needless, perhaps, to add that Casimir had not recognized me. I turned to the dancer, touching the peak of my cap. "Can I be of any assistance to mademoiselle?" I asked. "Thank you no," she replied. She placed five francs in my hand and set off rapidly through the trees in the direction of the road, her bloodthirsty but faithful attendant at her heels!
I do not enjoy destruction, but like you, I can make myself endure it." Dunark, the fierce and bloodthirsty Osnomian prince, leaped to his feet, his eyes flashing. "That's one thing I never could get about you, Dick!" he exclaimed in English. "How a man with your brains can be so soft so sloppily sentimental, gets clear past me.
In fact, the buccaneers usually dealt honestly and fairly with one another, and in the same way with the Indians, notwithstanding the fact that they were bloodthirsty, cruel and heartless in their treatment of the captives they made on their expeditions.
"Ah!" cried the Wallachians, in savage admiration, their bloodthirsty countenances assuming a still more hellish expression. "This is a common booty!" cried several voices together. "A beautiful girl! A noble lady! ha, ha! She will just suit the tattered Wallachians!" And with their foul and bloody hands, they seized the young girl by her fair slight arms.
"Absolutely!" "How very interesting!" Nan clasped her hands in delight. "How mysterious! How gloomy! How frightfully suspicious! I'm sure there's something very dreadful about him, and in that case he will be even more interesting than the girls." "Nan!" "I can't help it. We know so many estimable people that it would be delightful to meet somebody bloodthirsty, for a change.
One takes some dirty, horrible incident or sight of the battle-front and describes it in loathsome detail, and then, by way of contrast, describes some fat and incredibly bloodthirsty woman or middle-aged clubman at home, gloating over the glorious war. I always thought it a great bore, and sentimental at that.
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