Hunlike

Only we Germans who dwell in the upper country, which our ancestors were so fond of calling “the Empire” (“das Reich”), can thoroughly realise the terrible extent of the criminal excesses of the Hunlike fury which was directed against us by the French.

Tiglath Pilesser, the Kaiser of the day, had the world conquest lust, and under the leadership of Assyrian gods pictured as bulls, and with Hunlike ferocity he carried whole nations away into slavery.

That I was something of a prodigy—fifteen going into my final year—was not, let us say, unconnected with the Hunlike fury with which I threw myself into the academic game, but the compensation motive only partly explains things.

She imagines herself walking into Ms. Motti’s room and telling the Hunlike woman that she wants to quit the team. Then, right in front of her eyes, Ms. Motti morphs into a scaly, green, saber-toothed closet monster and takes Jane’s head off with one satisfied crunch.