Asteropaeus stood up out of the water to face him with a spear in either hand, and Xanthus filled him with courage, being angry for the death of the youths whom Achilles was slaying
ruthlessly within his waters.
His pride answered "yes," but against his will he pictured himself being dumped
ruthlessly into the pitiless sixties while Rose still lingered in the glorious twenties.
Then he closed his mouth and continued to water the new red flower as
ruthlessly as he had watered the red tulip.
Doubtless some of Tess d'Urberville's mailed ancestors rollicking home from a fray had dealt the same measure even more
ruthlessly towards peasant girls of their time.
The room looked at him like an alien countenance composed into a polite grimace; and he perceived that it had been
ruthlessly "tidied," and prepared, by a judicious distribution of ash-trays and cedar-wood boxes, for the gentlemen to smoke in.
Twelve years had passed since his body had been found upon the bluff before his cottage overlooking the Hudson, and oft-times during these long years I had wondered if John Carter were really dead, or if he again roamed the dead sea bottoms of that dying planet; if he had returned to Barsoom to find that he had opened the frowning portals of the mighty atmosphere plant in time to save the countless millions who were dying of asphyxiation on that far-gone day that had seen him hurtled
ruthlessly through forty-eight million miles of space back to Earth once more.
I passed the time with one restless eye upon the clock, and the other on the Tantalus which Raffles
ruthlessly declined to unlock.
Had Blucher succeeded in entering the place, he would no doubt have been chased through the town and stoned; and the time has been, and not many years ago, either, when a Christian would have been most
ruthlessly slaughtered if captured in a mosque.
He storms and bullies and derides; but she stands up to him so
ruthlessly that the Colonel has to ask her from time to time to be kinder to Higgins; and it is the only request of his that brings a mulish expression into her face.
Everything that could possibly give cover to an attack upon the German position at Niagara had been levelled as
ruthlessly as machinery and explosives could contrive; houses blown up and burnt, woods burnt, fences and crops destroyed.
Unopposed they reached the royal palace and marched up the marble steps, which had once been thickly crusted with emeralds but were now filled with tiny holes where the jewels had been
ruthlessly torn from their settings by the Army of Revolt.
Ey, ey, O-Tar," squeaked the ancient one, "I-Gos goes out not upon pleasure bound; but when one does
ruthlessly desecrate the dead of I-Gos, vengeance must be had
Surely it was too goodly a residence that we should be so swiftly, so
ruthlessly, evicted from it!
Corner lots, on the sharp turns of narrow streets, were bought and
ruthlessly presented to the city in order to make wide curves for his tracks and high speed for his cars.
That is all there is left in life for me, now that my friend has been
ruthlessly torn from me.