Usage examples (5)

• The delivery is often uninflected, and sometimes perverse: the "hell-kite" Macbeth is described as caressingly as if he were a turtle dove.
• Another is this: -- Had he offered 10,000 rupees (£1000 sterling) for the head of Nena Sahib, he would have got it in ten days, besides inflicting misery on the hell-kite.
• It is really wonderful and most interesting to pursue the successive steps of this monster, and to notice the absolute certainty with which the silent hieroglyphics of the case...
• "Oh, A saw 'em plain enough; same ill-lookin 'six that y'r hell-kite laws hatch on a bad frontier!