Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...perhaps see one friendly face. But though I scanned all closely, I saw but an expression of eager, brutal expectation. All eyes were fixed on me, but in not one did I meet a glance of sympathy; their look was as that of a bloodthirsty beast gloating over its victim. I shuddered slightly, and turned my head away. Yet I felt strangely calm and composed. I looked at the headsman with a sort of curiosity and interest; he had not his mask on yet, but his face was as impassive and immovable as though that had been covering...
Here I fortunately ceased to be the object of his attention, which was henceforth devoted to Grynde, who was reading his Kant in the further corner. "Ain't he got funny hair?" said he, pointing at his victim. "His mamma forgot to put a pin in HIS ribbon," smoothing a blue bow at his own throat. A few remarks then ensued between his aunt and grandmother, and then followed, "Oh, I know Mrs. Smith." "Yes, dear." "Yes, and she's just got a little boy; God sent him down from heaven." Then reflectively looking at me, "Did HE come down...
...room are covered with feather-beds, and after rebounding against these a number of times, your speed slackens enough to allow you to catch hold of a strap and thus stop yourself. Then the man in charge telephones to the man at the Gymnasium to send on the next victim...