Prendergast

Prendergast was like a raging devil, and he picked the soldiers up as if they had been children and threw them overboard alive or dead.

Source: tatoeba (6981815)

But there was no moving Prendergast and those who were with him. Our only chance of safety lay in making a clean job of it, said he, and he would not leave a tongue with power to wag in a witness-box.

Source: tatoeba (6981823)