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In sheer Hunnishness it had ravaged its banks, shearing away boat-houses and piers, and carrying all manner of wreckage down to pound the old aqueduct bridge with.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry

Our emotions were too exhausted for hatred—they usually are, unless some new Hunnishness has roused them.

From The Glory of the Trenches by Dawson, Coningsby