1 With a ruthless singleness of purpose, he desired his own house, his own plantation, his own horse, his own slaves.
2 He had risen to prominence in the campaigns in Tennessee and the West, and his reputation as a determined and ruthless fighter was growing.
3 They were caring again with a cold ruthless bitterness.
4 They seemed so predatory, so ruthless and yet, twined in her skirt, so broken, so helpless.
5 Then a cry of vengeance burst at once, as it might be, from the united lips of the nation; a frightful augury of their ruthless intentions.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 30 6 During this moment of tumult, the most ruthless deeds of war were performed on the fragments of the tree, with as much apparent ferocity as if they were the living victims of their cruelty.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 31 7 But when the hunter reached the scene of the ruthless massacre, the ledge was tenanted only by the dead.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32 8 In short, any eye at all practised in the signs of a frontier warfare might easily have traced all those unerring evidences of the ruthless results which attend an Indian vengeance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 33 9 This advance of the enemy had seemed to the youth like a ruthless hunting.
10 I denounced myself as a remorseless brute and a ruthless beast.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 37. A LITTLE COLD WATER 11 None knew who belonged to this ruthless society.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET 12 I know it, for now and then I hear a far-away muffled sound as of mattock and spade, and, whatever it is, it must be the end of some ruthless villainy.
13 Yet even then the hard ruthless rape of the land began to tell.
14 Napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly.
15 "You know I never approved of it," pursued Utterson, ruthlessly disregarding the fresh topic.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE