Even a hardened killer, after a certain amount of watching men trying to snuff out a fire by leaping into it, might have felt his brains cracking.

They seemed more like unscrupulous opportunists than hardened killers.

We stand a slim chance of making the carnage more than even a hardened killer like the Chameleon can stomach.

Evidently, this hardened killer reserved a Spanish epithet for times when he experienced total surprise.

It had thrown shivers into hardened killers in the past and it did the same on this occasion.

That the ranks of the foreign Taliban held hardened killers seemed clear enough over the last week, when prisoners revolted and killed an American intelligence officer.

He well knew that most hardened killers flashed angelic expressions before slitting their victims' throats.

During his flight he is forced to become a hardened killer.

Kenshin soon becomes a hardened killer, feared far and wide as the Hitokiri Battōsai.

Magaddino came from a well-known and powerful Mafia family and already had the reputation of a hardened killer upon his arrival in the States.