"I just wish they'd let the bastard die," Ramsey said.

And next time, Sharpe thought, he would make certain the bastard died.

I should have let the bastard die back there.

He had to get to Powers before the bastard died on him.

Fortunately the old bastard died before the baby was even born.

"He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

And if the bastard died with his city, all the better.

"Would that the little bastard had died in the flames," said Aphrodite.

If only he had sat down and waited he could have watched the old bastard die.

Or he would have to use the suit he'd brought for Dios; let the bastard die here.