People in my age always have paradoxy feelings toward the Berlin Wall. We all know what it represented, but we never understand why what it represented was so important.
As with glass under arm, Ahab to-and-fro paced the deck; in his forward turn beholding the monsters he chased, and in the after one the bloodthirsty pirates chasing him; some such fancy as the above seemed his.
Her association with the sistrum links the cat goddess with another popular Egyptian goddess: Hathor, a deity famous for transforming from a bloodthirsty destroyer to a friend of humanity.
Hmm, how romantic. Since we're road-trip bonding, remember the days when all you lived for was blood, you were the guy who would rip someone apart just for the fun of it?
So while bats definitely spend enough time lurking in dark caves to earn their blood-curdling reputation, it turns out they're not quite as menacing as they seem.