"Hari-kari" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... very little of anything at all save that ever at his elbow, in camp or at parade, stood two big men with soft voices adjuring him to commit hari-kari lest a worse thing should happen - to die for the honour of the regiment in decency among the nearest knives. But Mulcahy dreaded death. He remembered certain things that priests had said in his infancy, and his mother - not the one at New ...
— This is "Part II" of Soldiers Three, we don't have "Part I" • Rudyard Kipling
... afraid that, if Sir Lionel scolds him much, he will commit hari-kari on the threshold of the hotel, which would be embarrassing. And it does no good to tell her that hari-kari is a Japanese or Chinese trick. She says, if Nick would not do that ...
— Set in Silver • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson |
