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"Why, yes, sir," he replied. "Twice at hedge-sparrows." "And you would have fired at me, you bloody-minded man?" I cried. "If you go to that, you seemed mighty reckless with your stick," said Dudgeon. "Did I indeed?
A man out in the plain, with the avenger of blood, hot-breathed and bloody-minded, behind him might believe, as much as he liked, that there would be safety within the walls of the City of Refuge, but unless he took to his heels without loss of time, the spear would be in his back before he knew where he was.
Therefore go on with the other details, and drop this one from your list. The bloody-minded Fourtou will be sure to attend to it. Or I myself yes, to make certain, I will drop a note to my journalistic friend, M. Noir " "Oh, come to think of it, you may save yourself the trouble; that other second has informed M. Noir." "H'm! I might have known it.
The fly question is becoming serious. It seems odd, too, as he neither stings nor bites, that he should be so objectionable; but his tickly method of walking over your nose or down your neck, and the exasperating pertinacity with which he refuses to take "no" for an answer when you flick him delicately with a handkerchief, but "cuts" and comes again, maddens you until you rise, bloody-minded in your wrath, and, seizing the nearest sledgehammer, fall upon the brute as he sits twiddling his legs in a sunny patch on the table, then lo
"And then?" said the breathless captain. "Shot," said Attwater. "They came to the ground together." Herrick sprang to his feet with a shriek and an insensate gesture. "It was a murder!" he screamed, "a cold-hearted, bloody-minded murder! You monstrous being! Murderer and hypocrite murderer and hypocrite murderer and hypocrite " he repeated, and his tongue stumbled among the words.
I was taught to believe that those who promoted the Revolution and guillotined the King of France were bloody-minded fellows, and that the people of this happy country ought to do any thing rather than submit to have its streets stained with the blood of their monarch.
'While I was going through that, says he, 'some bloody-minded Russian 'd be choppin' me head off. It was his idea that a soldier was supposed to go through the sword exercise in face of the enemy; and the notion that it was simply intended to give dexterity in the use of the weapon never occurred to him.
Old Fowler certainly was a little slow, and Dick Rabbit, with the true bloody-minded instinct of a whip, was a little apt to bustle a fox back into covert. And then, when a run commences with a fast rush, riders are apt to over-ride the hounds, and then the hounds will over-run the fox. All of which has to be seen to by a Master who knows his business.
Nobody seemed more pleased than Schurz himself, and as we came away General Grant having disappeared he put his arm about me like a schoolboy and said: "Well, well, I had no idea you were so bloody-minded." Every Trade Has Its Tricks I Play One on William McKinley Far Away Party Politics and Political Issues There are tricks in every trade.
I say, I uplift my voice and tell you, that before the play is played out ay, before this very sun gaes down, ye sall learn that neither a desperate Judas, like your prelate Sharpe that's gane to his place; nor a sanctuary-breaking Holofernes, like bloody-minded Claverhouse; nor an ambitious Diotrephes, like the lad Evandale; nor a covetous and warld-following Demas, like him they ca' Sergeant Bothwell, that makes every wife's plack and her meal-ark his ain; neither your carabines, nor your pistols, nor your broadswords, nor your horses, nor your saddles, bridles, surcingles, nose-bags, nor martingales, shall resist the arrows that are whetted and the bow that is bent against you!"
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