death-purpose

Updated: July 9, 2025

All that the sportsman could discern were two living, glowing eyes, staring so it appeared to him straight into his, like starry search-lights, as if they read the death-purpose in the boy's heart, and begged him to desist. It was all over with Neal Farrar's shot. He lowered his rifle, while the speech, which could no longer be repressed, rattled in his throat before it broke forth.

Isabel Hornibrook - Camp and Trail: A Story of the Maine Woods