There were dull blue shadows beneath eyes red with weeping, a forlorn twist to her thin, bloodless lips, a pinched look of wretchedness like a glaze over her unhappy face, that told too plain a story.
The extortion of the Magna Charta from King John in 1215 was not the less a revolution because it was the bloodless work of the English barons.
The Spartacans had lost their armed battle against the government, but they had won a more important bloodless conflict.
It was in the year 1886 that, the resolution having been taken to dethrone Thebau and annex Upper Burmah, Prendergast began his all but bloodless movement on Mandalay.
But fifty years earlier a Russian general had marched from the Danube to the Aegean in three and a half months, nor was his journey by any means a smooth and bloodless one.
Leave barn and byre, leave kin and cot, Lay by the bloodless spade; Let desk and case and counter rot, And burn your books of trade!
Light clouds, like crimson banners, trailed bright across the east, As the great sun rose in splendor above a conflict ceased, Gilding the bloodless triumph for equal rights and laws, As with the smile of heaven upon a holy cause.
The steadfast phalanx of my honored braves Planted their bloodless flag where sunrise burning, Flashed a new splendor o'er our martyrs' graves!
Wind slow from the Swan's Marsh, O dreary death-train, With pressed lips as bloodless As lips of the slain!
Only his spare frame and bloodless type, due to the drug, saved his life, at that first shock of rage and hate.
The bloodless shades, leaving their graves at night, seek renewed life, by drawing out the blood of those who sleep; taking of the life of the living, to supply temporary life to the dead.
The bloodless shades flocked about him, as he sat there guarding the life-renewing blood; but even those dearest to him, he forbade to touch that consecrated draught.
Our companion patted her thin, work-worn hand, and murmured some few words of kindly womanly comfort which brought the color back into the others bloodless cheeks.
There was the same high, shining head, the same circular bristle of red hair, the same bloodless countenance.
Thus the victory of Marcus Cocceius Nerva was an accomplished fact, and, excepting for the two victims of the struggle within the palace, it had been a bloodless one.
Sacrifice such exuberance of life and spirit to that bloodless heart, to that cold and earthward intellect!
He was deathlike pale, but there was a sinister expression of firmness on his thin, bloodless lips.
They were all natives, clothed much in the same manner as Sambo, and armed with heavy clubs, for, as we have seen, Thorwald was resolved that this should be a bloodless victory.
Shall bloodless victories in civil war Be shunned, not sought?
But as I still fumbled the pulpy hand caught mine in a grip that made me wince, the bloodless lips stirred in a shuddering moan, and without opening her eyes she spoke.
They suggested the purr and soft padding of a cat, an odd contradiction to the white, bloodless face with the inky brows.
A pair of cold eyes in a white, bloodless face watched her beneath thin black brows.
He stroked the little bloodless hand, and kissed repeatedly the wasted cheek, uttering at the same time low murmurs of entreaty that she would look upon him once more before she died.
He bowed his face upon the lilies in her lap, but the languid bloodless things could not cool the fever in his cheeks.
Just as also a little afterward: Eti prospheromen soi tehn logikehn tautehn kai anaimakton latreian, We offer, he says this reasonable and bloodless service.
For it prays that we be made worthy to offer prayers and supplications and bloodless sacrifices for the people.
The sneer curved his white mustache, until she saw the outline of the narrow, bloodless underlip.
In those days a battle-field was not a cloud of smoke; the combatants were few but the deaths many; for they saw what they were about, and fewer bloodless arrows flew than bloodless bullets now.
He stared at her with monstrous eyes and bloodless cheeks.
Soon as he learned, his penitent hand defiled His shriveled brow and bloodless cheeks, and tore The hoary locks that streamed his shoulders o'er.
He was lying on a mattress between two of the columns at some little distance from Agne, and the light of a lamp, standing on a medicine-chest, fell on his handsome but bloodless features.
And while its nip-wind blows; While bloom the bloodless lily and warm rose Of lavish summer.
Lord a rational odour of sweet savour and a bloodless offering.
These two ideas run easily into one another, and the earliest uses of the expression 'bloodless sacrifice' for the eucharist have a similar ambiguity.
What turn the conversation was about to take I cannot guess, when it was suddenly interrupted by one of the bishop's servants rushing into the room, with a face bloodless from terror.
No sooner had it won a bloodless victory, than it was called upon to march out against an enemy of unknown numbers and engage in battles of uncertain outcome.
After the almostbloodless victory at Petrograd, the soldiers confidently assumed that matters would take a similar course in the future.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bloodless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
