Word: terrorisms
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...outside. He returned to bed. An interval of silence; the sound began again. Once more Chin Hin, with cold sweat starting from him, threw open the door; once more he was met by vacancy. He turned his key; almost instantly, the knocking was resumed. Chin Hin, deranged by terror, jumped out of the window...
...some wondered, largely the fear of indolence, the terror of the waste and shrill emptiness of life that drove a gentleman of such parts, schooled in such a civilized charm, to lead a life beleaguered with lonely effort, desolated with efficiency? Was it this terror, also, that bred in him such a pity for men that his instant reaction to an outrageous crime was sorrow for the criminals? Various comments to some such effect were; made by his friends, but strangest of all was one supplied by an item printed in his paper just before his body exchanged its pleasant...
Never has Congress, and never will Congress, legalize Francis Scott Key's ballad, which voices "bombs bursting in air," "blood," "the terror of flight and the gloom of the grave," "foul footsteps' pollution," and refers to our Anglo-Saxon brother, Britain, as "the foe's haughty host...
...Anna Kiekhoffer chased a mouse this way and that, around the garbage can, under the kitchen table, cornered him by the scuttlebutt; there began to toy with him in the remorseless sadistic fashion of tall Persian cats with small timid mice. Suddenly the tiny creature, deranged by terror, turned upon its tormentor like a lion, scrabbled into the cat's mouth, put its head down the cat's throat, choked it to death by choking to death within...
...birds trying to clean one another of this filth that defies description, and we see birds made tame by terror of it. We find tangled on the sea wrack masses of black filth that are still living birds, and we have seen in oil, when it has concentrated into long black lines, the horrors of black, croaking phantoms that were still birds...