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  • "I experienced moments of bloodlust," he confesses on page 299, "the impulse to destroy for destruction's sake."

    Greg Barrett: Marine's Memoir Commands Our Attention -- And Personal Investment Greg Barrett 2011

  • "I experienced moments of bloodlust," he confesses on page 299, "the impulse to destroy for destruction's sake."

    Greg Barrett: Marine's Memoir Commands Our Attention -- And Personal Investment Greg Barrett 2011

  • She replayed her sorcerer's words mentally, lingering over each syllable with the pleasure that destruction's anticipation sent through her.

    A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

  • He's going to have to become, "a detective on curse patrol", keeping a watchful and vigilant eye for anything that might indicate the final destruction's form.

    Archive 2006-07-01 fusenumber8 2006

  • HAN. BLIX, CHIEF U.N. WEAPON. IN.PECTOR: It is somewhat puzzling, I think, that you can have 100-percent certainty about the weapons of mass destruction's existence and zero certainty about where they are.

    CNN Transcript Jun 29, 2003 2003

  • Penuell Maduna, condemn in the strongest possible terms, yesterday's destruction's in and around Johannesburg, by the IFP youth who were protesting against the floor grossing legislation.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • He bunched his muscles repeatedly until it seemed it was solely for destruction's sake that he had developed them.

    Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999

  • These guys ain't usually quite so specific about the shape our destruction's gonna take - and they don't normally give a time-frame, either, 'cause that sets a sell-by date for their credibility. '

    Not the End of the World Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1998

  • Where cannons roar like thunder destruction's on the plain

    The Roving Newfoundlanders 1996

  • But he had not expected the vandalism of what remained, the destruction for destruction's sake.

    The Guns Of The South Turtledove, Harry 1960

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