"Carnifex" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... embraced each other with convulsive transport; we were almost suffocated; and when our young hearts found sufficient relief to breathe out our indigination, we sat up in the bed, and with all our force, repeated a hundred times, Carnifex! ...
— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau
... founder of this ennobling religion was born, had delighted so much and indulged so freely in the spectacles of the amphitheatre, that Mcenas summoned him reproachfully to leave them, saying, "Surge tandem, carnifex." ...
— The Caesars • Thomas de Quincey |
