Sentence:  The Lord Mayor, in the stronghold of the mighty Mansion House, gave orders to his fifty cooks and butlers to keep Christmas as a Lord Mayor's household should; and even the little tailor, whom he had fined five shillings on the previous Monday for being drunk and <WSD>blood-thirsty</WSD> in the streets, stirred up to-morrow's pudding in his garret, while his lean wife and the baby sallied out to buy the beef. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Thirsty for blood: inexorably violent or eager for bloodshed; murderous.