The delivery is often uninflected, and sometimes perverse: the "hell-kite" Macbeth is described as caressingly as if he were a turtle dove. From Wordnik.com. [One Night in November; Macbeth; Novecento] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg] Reference
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 betray to us the whole process and movements of the bloody drama, not less surely and fully than if we had been ourselves hidden in Marr's shop, or had looked down from the heavens of mercy upon this hell-kite, that knew not what mercy meant. From Wordnik.com. [Note Book of an English Opium-Eater] Reference
"Oh, A saw 'em plain enough; same ill-lookin 'six that y'r hell-kite laws hatch on a bad frontier!. From Wordnik.com. [The Freebooters of the Wilderness] Reference
O hell-kite!. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth] Reference
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