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Example sentences for "blood and"

  • But for this, as yet her mind was not strong enough, for there rose up in it vision after vision of blood and fire, which crushed and overwhelmed her.

  • Now so far as concerned their own order the Essenes thought little of social distinctions, or even of the differences of blood and race.

  • It was as though the angel of the daybreak had dipped his wing into a sea of blood and dashed it against the brow of Night, still crowned with her fading stars.

  • Suddenly the light grew, all these fantastic shapes melted into a red haze, which sank down till Jerusalem before them seemed as though she floated in an ocean of blood and fire.

  • Here is Solomon, that great backslider; and Manasseh, that man of blood and a witch.

  • The danger of leaving his inactive troops in those camps, which had been twice polluted with blood and sedition, urged him to attempt the reduction of the Western provinces.

  • Damn my blood and bones, life signals at last!

  • But two of his guns answered, one of which had been so gorged with shot that it burst in a hundred pieces and sent the fellow with the swab to perdition, and such a hell of blood and confusion as resulted is indescribable.

  • I began by telling them that the Americans had paid their share of the French war, in blood and money, twice over.

  • Out of doubt and chaos, blood and labour, had come at last the judgment that the lower should not swallow the higher, that the world is for the man of the twentieth and not of the seventeenth century.

  • On the other hand, while she is no gainer by the change, most of the expense of it in blood and in money falls upon the home country.

  • The avenger of men's blood and women's honour has hunted many men deep into heaven's innermost gate.

  • The war was expensive to the South as well as to the North, both in blood and treasure, but it was worth all it cost.

  • There had been too great a waste of blood and treasure to concede anything of the kind.

  • Blood and agony, torture and despair, followed ever on the heels of the Sea-wolves of the Mediterranean.

  • Torch-bearers among the pirates leaped into houses and set them ablaze, the flames volleyed and crackled, the dense smoke rolled upwards to the stainless sky, the night was a hell of blood and fire.

  • His path through life was one unending trail of blood and fire, moistened by the tears of his countless victims, followed by the curses of those whom he despoiled.

  • When the slaughter of the twenty--two was accomplished Uruj strode from the mosque over the weltering corpses of the traitors amid the plaudits of his own men, ever ready to acclaim deeds of blood and cruelty.

  • But we soon found out that the glory of war was at home among the ladies and not upon the field of blood and carnage of death, where our comrades were mutilated and torn by shot and shell.

  • We had followed the successes and reverses of the flag of the Lost Cause through all these years of blood and strife.

  • As they marched on down through an open field toward the rampart of blood and death, the Federal batteries began to open and mow down and gather into the garner of death, as brave, and good, and pure spirits as the world ever saw.

  • That black, ebon cloud, where the lurid lightning flickers and flares, that is rolling through the heavens, is the smoke of battle; beneath is being enacted a carnage of blood and death.

  • The Persian power is in the dust, gone down in blood and bale!

  • So our foe is here-- Like, as I deem, to ply no stinted trade In blood and broil, but traffick as is meet In fierce exchange for his long wayfaring!

  • But the confusion of blood and manners on that doubtful frontier often perplexed the most accurate observers.

  • Carthage, destitute of defence, opened her gates to the conqueror, and Africa was exposed to the rapacious cruelty of a slave, obliged to satisfy his unrelenting master with a large account of blood and treasure.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    agreed boundaries; assistant attorney; average width; blood and; blood atonement; blood from; blood heat; blood poisoning; blood pressure; blood relationship; blood twelve; bloodless coup; considerable distance from the; corporeal substances; evil deeds; fishing line; great commotion; half months; high seat; mediaeval life; originally made; pulled down; receive them; rural districts; scientific studies; thou beest