unmitigable-fanatics

Updated: May 9, 2025

Here advance a row of stern, unmitigable-fanatics, each of whom clinches his teeth, and grasps his weapon with a fist of iron, at sight of the temples of the ancient faith, with the sunlight glittering on their cross-crowned spires.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Biographical Sketches: (From: "Fanshawe and Other Pieces")