He was of that vindictive and violent nature, that but for his poor sister, who alone had influence over him, and out of whose sight he was never to be trusted, he would be in the daily commission of murder.

Before coming to England he had caused to be whipped to death sundry 'Natives'-- nomadic persons, encamping now in Asia, now in Africa, now in the West Indies, and now at the North Pole--vaguely supposed in Cloisterham to be always black, always of great virtue, always calling themselves Me, and everybody else Massa or Missie (according to sex), and always reading tracts of the obscurest meaning, in broken English, but always accurately understanding them in the purest mother tongue.

He had nearly brought Mrs.Crisparkle's grey hairs with sorrow to the grave.

(Those original expressions were Mr.Sapsea's.) He had repeatedly said he would have Mr.
Crisparkle's life.

He had repeatedly said he would have everybody's life, and become in effect the last man.