The parts of the pieces of wood, intended to represent the eyes and mouth, had recently been besmeared with blood, and there still lay at the heap of bones the entrails of a newly-killed reindeer.
They eat the flesh of the animals they sacrifice, the bones are scattered over the sacrificial height, and the idols are besmeared with the blood of the sacrificed animal.
In an account of the Ayodhya Reddis of Tinnevelly, Mr. Stuart writes that it is stated that "the tali is peculiar, consisting of a number of cotton threads besmeared with turmeric, without any gold ornament.
It was in vain for him to make a noise, which only yielded mirth to the spectators; he was fain to get off in this manner, which he accomplished with much difficulty and appeared before me all besmeared with blood and dirt.
I no sooner told him, than he discovered great emotion, and not confining his operation to my chin and upper lip, besmeared my whole face with great agitation.
So against the stain of tainted mankind, the vision of delicate femininity contrasted as a fleck of spotless white on a besmeared palette.
Maximilian believed that ink, thus sagaciously besmeared by a statesman's fingers, would blot out further revolution.
Sahela Selassie has never yet attempted an expedition in person against these war-hawks, nestled in the lap of the mountains, who fight stark naked, and are besmeared with lard from head to foot.
He spat out mud from his besmeared mouth, and his unburied face was like a beast's.
He is rarely besmeared with grime, he is hardly slovenly.
They generally measured our hands and feet with their own, counted our fingers, felt our faces, and besmeared our shirts all over with grease and dirt.
Some who had marked their ribs, and thighs, and faces with a white pigment, looked like skeletons, others were daubed over with red and yellow ochre, and their bodies shone with the grease with which they had besmeared themselves.
Him at this moment spies a Saracen Who lies among the corpses, feigning death, His face and body all besmeared with blood.
Knight Heap corse on corse; blood drenching all the ground; His own arms, hauberk, all besmeared with gore, And his good steed from neck to shoulder bleed!
The ancient Egyptian mummies were shroudedin a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
Meredith returned to his files and the clamouring multitude under the trees, for the remainder of the afternoon, with the noxious odours of bare-bodied humanity, besmeared with mustard oil, assaulting his nostrils.
Gradually, however, as they rambled over the place, all in turn became besmeared with our birdlime on head, paws, or back or breast.
Everything was plentifully besmeared with birdlime, and basins of the mixture were set in all directions, strewn with rice, maize, and other dainties for bait.
The best remedy for bee sting is honey, and when your hands are besmearedwith honey, as they are sure to be on such occasions, the wound is scarcely more painful than the prick of a pin.
I was about to pass on when a bee passed me making that peculiar shrill, discordant hum that a bee makes when besmeared with honey.
Though there was much refuse honey in the old stub, and though little golden rills trickled down the hill from it, and the near branches and saplings were besmeared with it where we wiped our murderous hands, yet not a drop was wasted.
From head to foot he was besmeared with black mud; for the rotten stern must have parted and fallen with the first touch of the explosion, so that the wave caught him as he toppled out, and flung him at once upon the shallows.
It is believed that he, as if he purposed to assist Claudius in his efforts to vomit, put down his throat a feather besmeared with deadly poison.
With their mouths open, their chins besmeared with grease, they had such bloated red faces that one would have said they were bursting with prosperity.
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