In continual raids, struggles, and attacks he had grown wild, accustomed to bloodshed in such a degree that no common thing could move the heart within him, which however was good by nature.
He was a gloomy warrior, loving battles and bloodshed alone, stern to himself and to soldiers.
I, too, looked to the early past for the golden age I would fain see revived among us, but, unlike you, it is neither persecution nor bloodshed that I have to record.
David's days were, instead of peaceful festivals, days of bloodshed and plunder.
The Quaker will not allow of any bloodshed whatever, either for avenging crime or repelling aggression.
The safety of the people was endanged by these feuds, which became more and more violent, and often ended in bloodshed and murer.
Thomas Cromwell had been Cardinal Wolsey's private secretary; but he had now become chief counselor to the King, and in his crooked and cruel policy reduced bloodshed to a science.
Human prosperity often strikes a sunken rock; bloodshed calls to Heaven for vengeance; yet there is comfort, for one destiny may override another, and good may yet come to pass.
At any rate, such is Aeschylus' solution of the eternal question, "What atonement can be made for bloodshed and how can it be secured?
The quarrel was stopped by Clytemnestra, who had had enough ofbloodshed and was content to leave things as they were, if the gods consented thereto.
He called for a stop to be put to the anarchy, the misrule and the bloodshed in Bulgaria, and demanded that the Ottoman rule should be excluded, not only from Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also from Bulgaria.
He saw insurmountable obstacles against immediate emancipation, one of which was that the negro would exchange the evil now affecting him for greater ones--for a relapse into deeper debasement, if not for bloodshed and internal war.
The details of this monstrous deed, and of the bloodshedthat accompanied it, created a profound sensation in England.
But what manner of praise is this which is stained with the bloodshed of so many innocents; and what manner of nobility that which is achieved and won by the ruin of so many thousand other folk!
Sharpe sent the following letter to Tucker: "To save bloodshed use some judgment.
And this carnival of bloodshed was witnessed by an American trader, Abe Farwell, who, being alone, was helpless to prevent, but who testified as to the frightful occurrence.
The remainder of the Minerva's crew, they stated, had mutinied, and after somebloodshed had permitted these six to leave in one of the boats.
Oh, auntie, when I read of the awful deeds of bloodshed that are even now being done in Africa by English soldiers, it makes me sicken.
The sounds came nearer, and it was now so light that as we watched we could see the bushes moving, and it seemed to me that more of this horrible bloodshed must ensue.
I felt that we must be taken, and, in addition, vague ideas of trouble and bloodshed floated through my brain, with memories of the fight in the gorge, and I shuddered at the idea of there being more people slain.
The Louvre literally reeks with the intrigue and bloodshed of political and religious warfare; and Dumas' picture of the murder of the admiral, and his version of the somewhat apocryphal incident of Charles IX.
It perpetuates an event of bloodshed which is familiar enough, but there are no tangible remains to mark the former site of the tower, and only the name remains--now given to a short and unimportant rue.
Intrigue, riot, and bloodshed of course there were; and perhaps it may be thought in undue proportions.
If there is, 'tis more likely the harm that she has received from tales of bloodshed which every passerby brings of the war.
Say rather it hath come from the tales of bloodshed she hath heard.
This measure--though doubtless unintentionally--served to encourage the soldiery in shooting down peaceful citizens, and it led by a natural sequence to the bloodshed on Lexington green.
For now, indeed, I wrought that the which brought on my lady great sorrow and grievous peril, and on myself shame, bloodshed and a black despair, and this the manner of it.
Her heart would break amid the constant wars and scenes of bloodshed which connect themselves with your lot.
In order to save bloodshed Governor Delaunay surrendered the fortress on receiving the promise of the insurgents that the lives of all its defenders should be spared.
The bloodshedand rapine were carried into the city of Rome itself.
The proscriptions and massacres of Sylla and the two triumvirates could but produce a society which would witness bloodshed with apathy, if not with delight.
It is difficult to produce a fair picture of the political upheavals and complications which eventually led to and resulted in so much bloodshedwithout going behind the actual outbreak of the feud.
To exclude secular or sacred history because they narrate crimes and bloodshed and horrors, would mean the withdrawal of the greatest weapons with which modern progress fights its battles in shaping the minds of men.
That there will be more bloodshed before this feud is settled was the opinion of all to whom I spoke on the subject.
Twice he had started out at the head of war parties and had been caught just in time to prevent bloodshed among the isolated settlers.
She had said that the Spirits had spoken to her and warned against bloodshed upon that day.
War, therefore, for the highest purposes of peace, became the present and instant policy of France; bloodshed for the sake of a religion the most benign; and desolation with a view to permanent security.
Under these circumstances, with a view, undoubtedly, to the final extinction of rebellions which involved infinite bloodshed on both sides, he permitted one trial to be made of a severe and sanguinary chastisement.
The ordinary Chinaman is not a fiend; he does not gloat in his peaceful moments, when not under the influence of extreme excitement, over bloodshed and cruelty.
Revolution, civil commotion, and bloodshed would be the inevitable consequences.
He described the Foreign Secretary's intimation as to the Government action towards Ulster as a cold-blooded indication of a policy securing bloodshed there.
If they went on now there would be bloodshed in Ulster, and an appeal to the people must follow, and then how would the people regard them?
Coming years bring Francisco Garcia, Sebastian Flores, and the "Los Manilas" gang, whose seventeen years of bloodshed end finally at the gallows of Los Angeles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bloodshed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
