It was only a mistake, and you acted the way any coldhearted boy would act if-if someone were to try to steal his horse, for instance.
"Riders of the Silences"
Max Brand
No longer the lone phantom fighter of past days, he led a gang of coldhearted thieves and killers that became the scourge of the Rio Grande.
"Riders of the Silences"
Max Brand
Wolff was dear to him, but before he would have led his Els to the house where the miserable "Mustache" lived, and whose head was the coldhearted, gloomy man whose words had just struck him like a poisoned arrow, he, whom the Lord had bereft of his beloved, gallant son, would have been ready to deprive himself of his daughters also and take both to the convent.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers