bloodthirstiness

You yourself know that I am not addicted to bloodthirstiness, and therefore that I cannot really be guilty of the fault in question, seeing that neither my mind nor my heart have participated in it.

Thomson, who quite unconsciously had drawn a revolver from his pocket, shot him through the heart, watched him jump up and fall, a senseless, shapeless heap upon the bottom of the steps, and, with a queer instinct of bloodthirstiness, ran down the line of the wrecked Zeppelin, seeking for more victims.

His career was cut short in tragically ironical fashion at the age of thirty by the plots of his enemies and the dying bloodthirstiness of King Henry, which together led to his execution on a trumped-up charge of treason.

Strange, too, for one who has kept his calmness throughout the contest, to observe the bloodthirstiness that is developed in the hour of triumph, and to be conscious that he is himself among its objects!

In an instant, he was the centre of a brood of baby-fiends, who lifted sticks against him, pelted him with stones, and displayed an instinct of destruction far more loathsome than the bloodthirstiness of manhood.

The group avoided the bloodthirstiness of Al Qaeda in Iraq, which had targeted Shiite mosques and sent suicide bombers into packed markets.

As bad as Sadr was, Khazali made a name for himself by his single-minded bloodthirstiness. Whereas Sadr was mercurial and inconsistent, Khazali was relentless in his efforts to kill coalition personnel.

One representative story in daily Jang, for example, described India as a 'blotch on human civilization' who was killing innocent people to avenge her bloodthirstiness (Jang, Sep 8, 1965).

'The bloodthirstiness of Indian troops has crossed limits inside the held territory as well as along the Line of Control,' said AJK's senior minister Chaudhry Tariq Farooq.

discounted the vituperative accounts of Indian bloodthirstiness that

As General TheophilusDanjuma made that acidic speech asking Nigerians to defend themselves against the rampaging bloodthirstiness of President MuhammaduBuhari's Fulani kinsmen at the University of Taraba last week, the picture of that hapless man, ZamaniLekwot, hopped up this writer's mind.

(12) The virtuous emperor is contrasted with one who has 'alienated himself from these virtues', surrendered himself to 'an abandoned life, selfishness, bloodthirstiness, enmity to God, [and] impiety', and, as a result, 'even if on occasion he be considered to rule by despotic power, at no time will he hold the title of sovereign with true reason'.