"Bloodthirstiness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... easily guess that Wilfred's character fared very badly at his hands—that without any wilful falsehood, of which indeed this proud young Norman was incapable, so distorted a version of the facts known to our readers was presented, that the abbot shuddered at the daring bloodthirstiness and impiety of one so young as this ...
— The Rival Heirs being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune • A. D. Crake
... Trial by jury was not quick or sure enough for Berkeley; he condemned them by court-martial and the noose was round their necks at once. Their families were stripped of their property and sent adrift to subsist on charity. In his bloodthirstiness, he never forgot his pecuniary advantage, and his thievish fingers grasped all the valuables that his murderous instincts brought within his power. But the spectacle is too ...
— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne |
