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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
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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
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She replayed her sorcerer's words mentally, lingering over each syllable with the pleasure that destruction's anticipation sent through her.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Where cannons roar like thunder destruction's on the plain
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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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