Revel and lust and drink, blood and cold steel, and the shock of men gathered in the battle--these were the canons of their creeds.
They were strong men, but I was mad with rage, and that awful lust for slaughter which will creep into the hearts of the most civilised of us when blows are flying, and life and death tremble on the turn.
Then those evil ones, ay, those children of the Wicked One who lives in the Pit, they went mad with the lust of blood, and flew at the throats of the Lion and the Baboon and the Pig.
She panted with hate, with the desire for vengeance, with the lust to kill.
Fascinated, she stood rooted to the spot, some deep, savage lust slowly awakening.
It lacks love because love is baneful to lustand making love.
A more serious difficulty arose about Christian women who committed suicide to guard their chastity when menaced by the infamous sentences of their persecutors, or more frequently by the lust of emperors, or by barbarian invaders.
Pray that thelust of your appetite may be crucified, and pray that the blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God who taketh away sin, may be sprinkled upon your guilty soul, and cleanse it from all sin.
It means that spirit which will sacrifice the lust of the heart, and deny itself, though it should be a present mortification.
It is a common fault in children to desire with greedy appetite such food as is pernicious, and to wish for more than even a mouth opened wide requires--till at length they learn to lust after forbidden things.
Gellius, how if a man in lust with a mother, a sister Rioteth, one uncheck'd night, to iniquity bare?
Which soon he granted, Being an obstruct 'tween hislust and him.
Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both; Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts, Keep his brain fuming.
His manhood asserted itself in a primitive lust to torture and to destroy.
He could only hammer his enemy's head on the rock, with a cruel lust for slaughter that availed nothing except to madden him by its futility.
Then, very soon, the mood of passive distress yielded to another emotion: a lust for vengeance on the man who would insure his own safety thus, reckless of another's cost.
For the first time in his life the lust of killing held him; he was dominated by a passion greater, more brutal in quality, more relentless, than anything he had felt before.
In other words, any intemperance islust of the flesh.
Eventually it worked a fleshly lust into his heart, and after two or three years he was led into actual commission of a sinful deed.
Perhaps this simple statement will raise a cynical smile upon the lips of those who know Tahati, the New Hebrides, and kindred spots with all their savage, bestial orgies of alternate unbridled lust and unnamable cruelty.
But these thou must renounce, if lust of wealth E'er win its way to thy corrupted heart: For, ah!
Pleasure by savage man is dearly bought With fell revenge, lust that defies control, With gluttony and death.
His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he bent her to his will.
We are called upon to give up the whole public domain to the fanatical cravings of abolitionism, and the unholylust of political power.
You had no mercy upon my unfortunate friend;—you sacrificed him to your base lust after gold;—you hurried him on to his doom.
High lust and froward bearing, Proud heart, rebellious brow -- Deaf ear and soul uncaring, We seek Thy mercy now!
Have ye sinned one sin for the pride o' the eye or the sinful lust of the flesh?
It intoxicated him, and in that moment of delirious pleasure it seemed to him, as to many another youth before and since, that to be the slave of lust was a fate more enviable than that of the conqueror of the world.
To the influence of these terrible family tragedies was added that of a perpetual and vain struggle to subdue the lust he had inherited.
This may be a sufficient explanation for the profane Sprat's share in the crime, but it was something more than the mere lawless gratification oflust that forced Villiers and the Shrewsbury into bigamy.
For her passions having burnt themselves out, from their ashes sprang a fresh lust--the lust of political intrigue.
But my mind was not abstracted, for rushed in straightway a lust to let the Spiti men kill.
Is it any lust of thine to be re-born as a rat, or a snake under the eaves--a worm in the belly of the most mean beast?
Next day one said: "We go out to fight Sangor Gutok down the valley to discover" (mark again how Lust is tied to Anger!
Ignorance and Lust met Ignorance and Lust upon the road, and they begat Anger.
Kim felt all the European's lust for flesh-meat, which is not accessible in a Jain temple.
Not for your sakes; for, bold and blind, To lust and avarice inclined, Each shadowy idol you obey, Disowning my paternal sway.
I ask not for their pretences; they are as old as the lust of lucre, and are refuted by the example which we have been contemplating: I ask for the true reason, for the inspiring principle of their conduct.
Still, as their tastes were very different, hatred with Francesco was only the fear of the deer for the hunter; but with Caesar it was the desire for vengeance and thatlust for blood which lurks perpetually in the heart of a tiger.
It was not lust delivered me to you; I gave my wondering mouth for pity's sake, For your strange, sighing lips I did but break Many times this bread, and poured this wine anew.
For this strange pity that you knew not of Was neither lust nor love.
I have given a new sweet name and crown to this That served men's lust and was Aspasia.
I am Sex, and all vain bodily Lust That men desire and spit on, and would not lose For the bribe of Heaven.
And it was gathering, and it would surely fall over that Paris, all lust and bravado, which, when evening came, thus stirred up its furnace.
Only, behind all that lust of power, that continuous onslaught of ambition, what a distressful prey was stirring--the whole people with all its poverty and its sufferings!
But lust is a different thing altogether; my chaste soul could not forgive such a sin, and I declare open war against it.
As Kells had propounded his ideas, revealing his power to devise a remarkable scheme and his passion for gold, so Gulden struck out with the driving inhuman blood-lust that must have been the twist, the knot, the clot in his brain.
The pursuit was a dream--a glittering allurement; the possession incited a lust for more, and that was madness.
Their crews, with the innate blood-lust and savagery of their breed, had not even entertained the thought of accommodating their swifter pace to that of the main body of the fleet.
Soon their astronomical instruments revealed the cities of Europa to their gaze, and as soon as they discovered that the civilization of Europa was human, they destroyed it utterly, with the insatiable blood lust that is their heritage.
