Of course it would cost me my life.
If I could kill him, I think I should not mind it.

Such a villain is not fit to live; and at any rate, whoever came after him, the prisoners could not be worse off than they are now.
"Let us go back.

I have had enough for this morning." When they returned, Dick told Pertaub of the scene that he had witnessed.
"Many of them have been starved to death," the old man said.

"Possibly one of their companions may have tried to escape.

It is to prevent this that Tippoo's greatest cruelties are perpetrated.