On the other hand, we find Charles of Anjou, the foreign intruder, the bitter foe of the Empire and pitiless exterminator of the imperial race, a man in whom later historians, free from personal or patriotic bias, have seen hardly any virtue to redeem the sombre cruelty of his career, placed, not indeed in Paradise, but in Purgatory, and waiting in sure and certain hope of ultimate salvation, as one who in spite of many faults had led a pure and ascetic life in a profligate and self-indulgent age.
"Dante: His Times and His Work"
Arthur John Butler
This was perfectly parliamentary and a complete exterminator.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
Being there I sent up my name, and was admitted to the bed-chamber of this doughty exterminator of men.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft