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I have seen an accomplished young woman of considerable refinement and of a highly strung nervous temperament, string flies with her needle on a piece of thread, and watch complacently their flutterings.

— Sabine Baring-Gould The Book of Were-Wolves (1865)

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Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe;
Forward into battle see His banners go!

We are not divided, all one body we,
One in hope and doctrine, one in charity.

Jesus, give the weary
Calm and sweet repose.
With Thy tend'rest blessing
May our eyelids close.

A child will gloat over the sufferings of a wounded animal till his mother bids him "put it out of its misery." An unsophisticated child would not dream of terminating the poor creature's agonies abruptly, any more than he would swallow whole a bon-bon till he had well sucked it.

The Book of Were-Wolves (1865)

An old soldier, who had been in Waterloo, informed me that to his mind there was no pleasure equal to running a man through the body, and that he could lie awake at night musing on the pleasurable sensations afforded him by that act.

The Book of Were-Wolves (1865)

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