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Example sentences for "bloodstained"

Lexicographically close words:
bloodred; bloodroot; bloods; bloodshed; bloodshot; bloodstains; bloodstone; bloodstream; bloodsucker; bloodsuckers
  1. Both the bed and the carpet were covered with blood; and the door leading to the drawing-room was, all round the lock and the bolts, marked by bloodstained fingers.

  2. To discredit the Crown finally in the eyes of the nations, it has been permitted to the son of the regicide to lie for one moment in the bloodstained bed of the murdered man.

  3. Dick thought of the headless bodies that once had awaited the changing tide that was to bear them away from that bloodstained spot to outer sea.

  4. His bloodstained knife appeared once more in his hand, and he flourished it above his head.

  5. He had performed a similar service when the bloodstained thing had first been put upon exhibition at the Museum, and for a considerable period had disappeared.

  6. There would be something of a triumph in winning her, and this vain, bloodstained old brute fancied that he had sufficient attractiveness for the opposite sex to render him invincible if he set about his wooing in the right way.

  7. Hawxherst, who, in common with all the officers of the insular army, hated the bloodstained villain whom fortune had placed over them, had solicited Lord Carlingford to allow him to execute the order, with what success we have seen.

  8. Labakan having taken his stand on the other side of the chieftain, resting upon his great bloodstained executioner's sword, Hadj Absalam at length commenced an address to his people.

  9. Summoning courage at last, she allowed herself to be carried on over the bloodstained floors of polished sardonyx and agate into the great arcaded courts, with their columns of marble, plashing fountains, and cool palms.

  10. Above the huge Roll that is wreathed with bloodstained laurels, droop the Flags of the Allied Nations, their heavy folds all gemmed with bitter tears.

  11. He looked down from his superb height upon the bloodstained figure in the stretcher.

  12. By three o'clock the last shot had been fired, and the remnant of the British troops, who had fought with such devoted courage, stood triumphant on the bloodstained ground.

  13. Almost at the same moment Captain Jamieson received a ghastly wound in the breast, and sinking lifeless to the bloodstained ground was instantly despatched by his ruthless assailants.

  14. The Pope was forever dethroned in his Kingdom, and Protestantism had achieved a bloodstained victory.

  15. Earl Roderic looked but for a moment at Alpin, and then swinging his bloodstained sword from right to left he passed through the crowd of men.

  16. He raised his right hand and all saw that he held the bloodstained knife.

  17. She stopped as she saw a figure in a bloodstained white shift slowly moving up the companionway.

  18. With a cry of remorse he crouched over the lifeless figure and lovingly touched the bloodstained beard.

  19. Still seething with anger, he had slowly pulled himself over the side, then rolled onto the bloodstained planking.

  20. Chief in all their mourning was the son of Peleus: he laid his bloodstained hand on the breast of his friend.

  21. On a stool in front of the fire sat the man who had first entered, a bloodstained blanket thrown over his whole person, concealing both figure and face.

  22. She told him all about the sad incident, repeated the same details twenty times over, picked up the bloodstained scissors in order to imitate Zizi's gesture when he stabbed himself.

  23. Then upstairs she found a man lying on the floor with bloodstained shirt.

  24. And more than once I had seen one of these tatterdemalions with a bloodstained countenance being led to the police station, while a samovar or some linen, wet from the wash, was carried behind by way of material evidence.

  25. His face was red from the frost and vodka; near him, behind the counter, stood Nikolka, with the expression of a brigand, holding a bloodstained knife in his hand.

  26. Having issued the command, in a voice loud enough to be heard by his following, the major rode away from the bloodstained spot, preceded by the tracker.

  27. The young man commenced by wiping his bloodstained hands on the red trimming.

  28. The sack was bloodstained and contained some small tufts of hair and the dust of cement.

  29. Rabbits dwelt here and the bloodstained sack had been discovered by a dog.

  30. So she was laid to earth still plastered with the white pigment and wrapped in the bloodstained feather robe.

  31. The history of Russia and Poland presents a continued series of bloodstained pages.

  32. We passed the suburbs of Praga, the last battle-ground of Kosciusko, where the bloodstained Suwarrow butchered in cold blood thirty thousand Poles.

  33. The guard, hearing shouts, rushed in and stoically bore away a limp, bloodstained bundle to the hospital.

  34. As Pelle came to himself in his friends' arms, the big fellow staggered forward, holding out a bloodstained paw.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bloodstained" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bloody; gory; sanguinary; sanguine