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"Then we will call it eleven myriad," Caracalla broke in. "Now, we have had enough of the dead. Bring in the living." "Whom?" asked the Egyptian, in surprise. Hereupon Caesar's eyelids began to quiver, and in a threatening tone he reminded his bloody-handed tool of those whom he had ordered him to take alive.
The bloodthirsty reactionaries of the falsely so-called Crown Loyalist Party! The grasping conspiracy of the interstellar bankers! The dirty Gilgameshers! They are all leagued together in an unholy conspiracy! And now this Space Viking, this bloody-handed monster from the Sword-Worlds...." "Shut the horrible man off," somebody was yelling, in competition with the hypnotic scream of the speaker.
Ah! there is but one class of folks whose faith in spirits nothing can shake the guilty, the bloody-handed. He came to a perturbed rest at the huge, half-hospitable Hospice, to the enthusiasm of the postilions. "Will the gentleman have a saddle-horse?" "A chariot?" "A cabriolet?" "Ten francs to Andermatt!" "Thirty francs to Fluelen!"
Some of the faint-hearted," adds Antonio Agapida, "looked upon this torment of the elements as a prodigious event, out of the course of nature. In the weakness of their fears they connected it with those troubles which occurred in various places, considering it a portent of some great calamity about to be wrought by the violence of the bloody-handed El Zagal and his fierce adherents."*
Get off my ship, you lout, or I'll murder you." Mr. Gibney hung his head. "Scraggsy an' you, too, McGuffey I got to admit that this here is one on Adelbert P. Gibney. "Oh, hear him," shrilled Captain Scraggs. "One on him! It's two on you, you bloody-handed ragpicker. I suppose that other case contains opium, too! If there ain't another dead corpse in No. 2 case I hope my teeth may drop overboard."
Often enough it had been his lot in times of peace and war to be forced to fight for life, and more than once to kill in defence of it; but that had never happened, never could happen, without his suffering the bitterest regret. Even now, in the case of this bloody-handed butcher, this ruthless garroter.... Dropping to his knees, Lanyard bent over the body to search for symptoms of animation.
By this act, we may feel that for the future the birds of Laysan and neighboring islets are secure from further attacks by the bloody-handed agents of the vain women who still insist upon wearing the wings and feathers of wild birds.
There was a clump of wide beech-trees at that place, with a fine shade and a place to lay their clothes while they swam about, splashing with their naked white bodies in the water. At these times Master Barnaby would bawl as lustily and laugh as loud as though his grandfather had been the most honest ship-chandler in the town, instead of a bloody-handed pirate who had been murdered in his sins.
Soldier, let me tell you something" the newspaper correspondent, to whom one man's dignity was as much as another's, kicked his horse forward "these raiders that bloody-handed Chadron sent in here have murdered children and women, do you know that?" "Who in the hell are you?" Chadron demanded, bristling with rage, whirling his horse to face him.
Well he kept his promise then with a fierce, relentless daring, Fire to rooftrees, death to men, through the Bergen valleys bearing: In the midnight deep and dark came his vengeance darker, deeper At the watch-dog's sudden bark woke in terror every sleeper; Till at length the farmers brown, wasting time no more on tillage, Swore those ruffians of the Crown, fiends of murder, fire and pillage, Should be chased by every path to the dens where they had banded, And no prayers should soften wrath when they caught the bloody-handed Jack, the Regular.
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