Why had the young man's gold-brown hair been hacked short, as if by swift savage strokes of a scissors?

He shrugged mentally as he cut down another Imperial trooper with a single savage stroke.

He flung himself aside, pivoting on one leg as he bounced off the wall and kicking out in a savage stroke with the other foot.

The same shiver surged through him in a savage stroke of need.

But as if Nollinrude were not yet satisfied, the bar of iron rose and beat the limp body with enormous savage strokes.

The savage strokes of his sword seemed to ignite the air as he took on the other two swordsmen.

He is a writer who stabs the mind and the heart and the inner eye with short, savage strokes.

It was a savage stroke and cut the muscles of both legs above the knees.

Sensing it had been spotted, it whipped its tail back and forth with savage strokes, rattling the leaves.

Instantly, Yagharek snapped his whip with a savage stroke.