For a moment I seemed, in spite of the viciousness of the blow, to retain a spark of consciousness, for I knew he kicked me savagely with his heavy sea boots; I felt the pain, and even heard the words, and curses, accompanying each brutal stroke.

Belloc I admire beyond measure, but there is a sort of partisan viciousness about Belloc that bars him from my celestial dreams.

From the high ground away to the left came the sudden crack of a revolver shot that rang out with startling viciousness on the night air.

I have half a mind to shake your viciousness out of you, that I have!