Barbarism Quote by John Broadbent

“He was dead, all right. He had been shot, poisoned, stabbed, and strangled. Either somebody had really had it in for him or four…

— Richard S. Prather

“Whatever had killed him, it hadn't been human. His face was gone, simply torn away. Something had ripped his lips off. I could see…

— Jim Butcher

“He'd been inside of a storm, all right. He'd been swept up in a tornado of sex and memory, naked regret and short-lived ecstasy.…

— Nancy Pickard

“Horrified, I smacked my hand over my mouth and stumbled a step back, blinking. I thought I was hallucinating what I was seeing, but…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by…

— Kingsley Amis

“Ah!" returned the man, with a relish; "he'll be drawn on a hurdle to be half hanged, and then he'll be taken down and…

— Charles Dickens

“He looked at her as if she were already one of the ugly nameless bodies in the mortuary, and with a medical man's sober,…

— Erik Fosnes Hansen

“his grandmother walking the lane. He will be frightened, she thought. It may be that he has returned and is frightened. He is only…

— Hannah Kent

“He was revived eight times, and hanged nine. Only after the eighth hanging were his last bits of courage and dignity gone. Only after…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“He's dead: Internal bleeding. When they opened him up they found a toothbrush shiv lodged in the anal cavity. It was never determinded whether…

— Michael Connelly

“I accompanied him to the first aid clinic to look at the would-be suicide. He was unconscious. Nurses were already on the spot with…

— Lewis E. Lawes

“He was a very humane killer too, for he would dispatch a beast with one blow of it's talk so that it didn't know…

— C.S. Lewis