bloodthirsty

“Maybe, but in the arts it takes more than just being good; it takes what I call bloodthirsty determination.”

Simon & Schuster: Rain

“They were doing their best to strike down the universal monarchy of Spain, which they described as a bloodthirsty, insatiable, insolent, absolute dominion of Saracenic, Moorish Christians.”

History of the United Netherlands, 1590a

“Invocations, in bloodthirsty language, encouraged it to punish the guilty party.”

Fetishes As Fetish Does

“Justices — Justiciary — whatever they call their bloodthirsty court, and save your sister from being murdered, and them from becoming murderers.”

The Heart of Mid-Lothian

“When in bloodthirsty history did beauty ever save anyone from anything?”

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture

“--- Justiciary --- whatever they call their bloodthirsty court, and save your sister from being murdered, and them from becoming murderers.”

The Heart of Mid-Lothian

“Justices -- Justiciary -- whatever they call their bloodthirsty court, and save your sister from being murdered, and them from becoming murderers.”

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete

“Rabbinic Judaism developed this last hint and created so many obstacles to execution that the Mishnah described as bloodthirsty a court that executed a man every seven years—every seventy years, objected Eliezer ben Azariah Makkot 7a.”

The 1,000-page morality tale

“The ancient proverb, That bloodthirsty is the man who returns from banishment to power, had been applied, with too much truth, to ‘Marius and Tiberius; and was now verified for the third time in the life of Andronicus.”

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire