blood lust


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blood lust

nsete f di sangue
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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In the ape-man's right hand was the long hunting knife of his father and in his heart the blood lust of the carnivore.
Behind him again scrambled another creature, and of all the horrid horde it was this they most feared--Sheeta, the panther, with gleaming jaws agape and fiery eyes blazing at them in the mightiness of his hate and of his blood lust.
In the blood lust of his fury the creature had undergone a sudden reversion to type, which left him a wild beast, forgetful of the dagger that projected from his belt--thinking only of nature's weapons with which his brute prototype had battled.
Half a dozen great leaps brought me to the spot, and another instant saw me again in my stride in quick pursuit of the hideous monsters that were rapidly gaining on the fleeing warrior, but this time I grasped a mighty long-sword in my hand and in my heart was the old blood lust of the fighting man, and a red mist swam before my eyes and I felt my lips respond to my heart in the old smile that has ever marked me in the midst of the joy of battle.
It was the Rajah Muda Saffir--he had seen the girl's face and at the sight of it the blood lust in his breast had been supplanted by another.
All that stirring of old instincts which at stated periods drives men out from the sounding cities to forest and plain to kill things by chemically propelled leaden pellets, the blood lust, the joy to kill--all this was Buck's, only it was infinitely more intimate.
And in his heart, he knew that it would require but a tiny spark to turn his hatred for Canler into the blood lust of the killer.
Trophy hunters pose for vile souvenir snaps next to the polar bears they have just slaughtered on trips organised purely to satisfy their sickening blood lust.
Since Friday the 22nd I have sat on the edge of my chair, as if watching the ultimate thriller movie, hearing a crescendo akin to a rabid blood lust of a pack of coyotes.
The prelate reminded Filipinos not to give in to the blood lust and the desire for sensational protest actions that end up in violence, such as the chaotic rally near the United States Embassy in Manila in 2016.
He said that economically India continues to punch us by forcefully, braking open the houses, destroying everything even the household items, burning of food grains, damaging the fruit laden trucks and blocking their entry at Banihal Tunnel at evenings to satisfy the blood lust of their enraged masses, so that we line up on their doorsteps with a begging bowl.
The doll has an unusual ability to help Vassa escape life-threatening situations and possibly to help her to free her entire neighborhood from Babs's blood lust.