"You know I never approved of it," pursued Utterson,
ruthlessly disregarding the fresh topic.
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.
Now rageth my hammer
ruthlessly against its prison.
Falk obeys the law of self-preservation without the slightest misgivings as to his right, but at a crucial turn of that
ruthlessly preserved life he will not condescend to dodge the truth.
I could not fathom the seeming hallucination, nor could I free myself from it; but somewhere in the innermost recesses of my soul I felt a strange yearning toward these unknown foemen, and a mighty hope surged through me that the fleet would return and demand a reckoning from the green warriors who had so
ruthlessly and wantonly attacked it.
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.
So, with Spartan firmness, the young authoress laid her first-born on her table, and chopped it up as
ruthlessly as any ogre.
The anxious mother had to console herself with the fact that her daughter drove away the ineligible as
ruthlessly as the eligible, formed no unworldly attachments, was still very young, and would grow less coy as she advanced in years and in what Mrs.
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.
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.
"That is all there is left in life for me, now that my friend has been
ruthlessly torn from me.
"No, Stiva doesn't drink...Kostya, stop, what's the matter?" Kitty began, hurrying after him, but he strode
ruthlessly away to the dining room without waiting for her, and at once joined in the lively general conversation which was being maintained there by Vassenka Veslovsky and Stepan Arkadyevitch.