What is "bloodthirsty"

Usage examples of "bloodthirsty".

Bill Browder, and it was much more bloodthirsty than Bill Browder had sounded.

With a shock, Noon realized that the shouter, whose face was flushed and distorted by bloodthirsty mania, was one of his fellow students at the university.

Moreau, Comte de Sourdet, belonged amongst the finest of French aristocracy, and if not for his noble title and a bloodthirsty Robespierre, he would still be there.

Of course, I know they are all teeming with a dozen subcultures, each bloodthirsty minion armed and waiting for me.

She knew enough about him by now to understand that he would never abandon those who trusted in him, that he would not turn his back from danger, and leave the Comte de Tournay to fall into the bloodthirsty hands that knew of no mercy.

The same veined and bulbous plants, the same eternal underwind, the same laughter from bloodthirsty trioptic throats.

He saw that Robert counted as best friends such men as Robert of Belesme, a man already famous for his bloodthirsty unscrupulousness, and Edgar the Aetheling, who had once been heir presumptive of England long before the Conquest.

The staccato concatenated barks of coyotes, the lonely mourn of bloodthirsty wolves, the roo-roo-rooooo of mating buffalo, the stamping, yelling war dance of the Indians--were hardly to be compared to this Australian bushland chant.

Around them were ranged a strong guard of Africans, and, back through the streets, as far as she could see, the Capuan rabble were thronging forward, curious or bloodthirsty.

Better to fall on your own sword than go down to a dozen hacks from bloodthirsty orcs.

Balked of his desire to spill their blood on the desert, Hadith was using a device which was rapidly appeasing his bloodthirsty soul.

For all Alvin knew, Bowie would emerge from the encounter with half the Mexica worshiping him as a particularly bloodthirsty new god.

While not as bloodthirsty as the widely feared Blackfeet, the Utes were a proud, independent tribe who fiercely prevented any attempts by outsiders to penetrate their domain, and they had been doing this for more years than anyone could remember.

Cain was stealing his horse, leaving him afoot, stranding him in the middle of nowhere with a band of bloodthirsty Utes about to close in.

Gummitch found increasing horror in this mute vampirish being inhabiting the body of a rapidly growing girl, though inwardly equipped to be nothing but a most bloodthirsty she-cat.