berserker

• Holmes had drawn white, and he came out, whirling his knights across the board like a berserker with his chain mace, sixteen squares of shifting destruction and disruption that had me slapping together hasty defences at half a dozen spots across the board, summoning and abandoning bishops and rooks, spraying pawns ahead of the fray and leaving them in odd niches as the action stumbled away across the board. —  The Beekeeper’s Apprentice - Laurie R. King - Russell-Holmes 01
• Whatever be one's convictions, one cannot but respect the profound sincerity of Mark Twain's berserker- like rage over the attitude of Europe in China, the barbarities of Russian autocracy, and the horrors of America's methods in the Philippines, copied after Weyler's reconcentrado policy in Cuba. —  Mark Twain
• Then the Hunter is berserker, and while this makes him very dangerous, he is also good quarry then—he forgets his cunning. —  JULY, 1953 VOL
• The Tampies' first definition of perasiata had been as a sort of coma; two hours ago, they'd used the term for Sleipnir's panic reaction to the approaching sharks; and now it had become a berserker-type rage. —  Warhorse
• The giant Viking laughed and held up his huge sword and began to twirl it in circles above his head in preparation for the berserker death charge. —  Carr, John F, Kalvan Kingmaker (v1.0) (html).html

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