"Hot-blooded" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... they're Americans. Now for the third reason: when Clavering meant to burn Muller's homestead, he struck at me, guessing that some of you would stand behind me. He knew your temper, and he'd have laughed at us as hot-blooded rabble—you know how he can do it—when he'd put us in the wrong. Well, this time we'll give the law ...
— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss
... killed last night, at the same place as Tom Hamon, and in the same way. So these hot-blooded thickheads are convinced at last that it wasn't ...
— A Maid of the Silver Sea • John Oxenham
... hot-blooded, or even warm-blooded, you must turn your back on your house and cast from you the duties and privileges ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... ventures in: let no buzz'd whisper tell: All eyes be muffled, or a hundred swords Will storm his heart, Love's fev'rous citadel: For him, those chambers held barbarian hordes, Hyena foemen, and hot-blooded lords, Whose very dogs would execrations howl Against his lineage: not one breast affords Him any mercy, in that mansion foul, Save one old beldame, weak in ...
— Keats: Poems Published in 1820 • John Keats
... for him, Lopez had received at his hands treatment which was sufficient to inspire a deep resentment even in a man less impetuous than this hot-blooded Spaniard. First, he had not only discouraged his attentions to Katie, but had prohibited them in every possible way, and in the most positive and insulting manner. Again, but a short time before this, at the railway station at Madrid, he had caused him to be ejected from the railway-carriage. ...
— A Castle in Spain - A Novel • James De Mille
... eyes met the other's; the glances they exchanged were like the thrust and parry of swords. Without wishing to address the actress—and thereby risk a public rebuff—it was, nevertheless, impossible for the hot-blooded Southerner to submit to peremptory restraint. Who had made the soldier his taskmaster? He read Saint-Prosper's purpose and was not ...
— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham |
