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"Cutthroat" Quotes from Famous Books

... eh, Colonel?" said one contemptuously. "That fellow has cutthroat written all over him. Don't see any signs ...

— My Lady of Doubt • Randall Parrish

... striking character in the play which bears his name. The narrow fanatical republican virtue of Verrina, the mild and venerable wisdom of the old Doria, the unbridled profligacy of his Nephew, even the cold, contented, irreclaimable perversity of the cutthroat Moor, all dwell in our recollections: but what, next to Fiesco, chiefly attracts us, is the character of Leonora his wife. Leonora is of kindred to Amelia in the Robbers, but involved in more complicated ...

— The Life of Friedrich Schiller - Comprehending an Examination of His Works • Thomas Carlyle

... Loeb went on citing cases of what he termed cutthroat competition on our part, till he worked himself into a passion and became abusive again. The drift of his harangue was that "smashing" prices was something distasteful to the American spirit, that we were only foreigners, products of an inferior civilization, and that we ought ...

— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan

... Sir Nightcap; and, moreover, you are a fair hand at figures. I have great work before me in landing and selling the fine cargoes you have brought me, and in counting and dividing the treasure you have locked in your iron-bound chests. And you shall attend to all that, my reformed cutthroat, my regenerated sea-robber. You shall have a room of your own, where you can take off that brave uniform and where you can do your work and keep your accounts and so shall be happier than you ever were before, feeling that you are in ...

— Kate Bonnet - The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter • Frank R. Stockton

... cutthroat!" cried the old man, shaking his clinched hand in the air. "Why didn't he kill me? He has robbed ...

— Frank Merriwell Down South • Burt L. Standish

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