During the sanguinary struggles between King Richard and his cousin Henry the Fourth, nothing is seen of Richard of Conisborough.
At all events, Quetzalcoatl stood for a worship which was eminently more advanced and humane than the degrading and sanguinary idolatry of which Huitzilopochtli and Tezcatlipoca were the prime objects.
He, like Tlaloc among the Mexicans, had a penchant for human sacrifice, but his worship was by no means so sanguinaryas was that of his Mexican prototype.
Meanwhile on the right, at South Mountain Pass, a still more sanguinarybattle had been in progress.
The battle, although of brief duration, had been a most sanguinary one.
He found ample exercise for them in the war with his countrymen; for civil war is proverbially the most sanguinary and ferocious of all.
The whole Aztec pantheon partook more or less of the sanguinary spirit of the terrible war-god who presided over it, and their frivolous ceremonial almost always terminated with human sacrifice and cannibal orgies.
Rouen was stoutly defended by the reformed, well aware of the sanguinary dispositions of the bigotted monarch.
He saw the dark outline of the wild beasts, which darkness drew from their lairs, and which, guided by their sanguinary instinct, were already prowling about the battlefield, preparing to commence their horrible repast.
The battle of Cerro Pardo was one of those sanguinary days, whose memory a nation retains for ages as an ill-omened date.
So soon as the carnage, for we cannot call it a battle, was over, the Indians prepared to pay the last rites to those of their friends who had found death in this sanguinary struggle.
It must be observed, that he is stained with no enormous or sanguinary crimes, so that his licentiousness is not so offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth.
Unfaithfulness was doubtless very frequent, and in certain cases led to a sanguinary vengeance.
This sanguinary despot had most of the foibles of a woman, combined with the fiercer passions of a man.
Science and literature have depicted their sanguinary course with brilliant sophistry, and erected it into a system.
His ferocious features, piercing black eyes, his tomahawk and long knife, half concealed by the trophy of scalps which hung from his belt, gave him a wild and sanguinary appearance.
Reformers and pacifists yearned for it as a means of establishing a well-knit society of progressive and pacific peoples and setting a term tosanguinary wars.
And, if not, what likelihood is there that religious inequality will precipitate sanguinary conflicts in the future?
Even without Le ffaçasé's sanguinary prophecies, I objected to the trip.
Get the sanguinary hell out of here and do humanity the favor to step in front of the first tentontruck driving by.
It were dastardly conduct to give them over now to sanguinary massacre.
No matter under what latitude, the puma is a sanguinary animal; but his strength, size, and thirst of blood, vary with the clime.
From this latter sanguinary measure, which a Cabrera or a Valmaseda would probably not have hesitated to adopt, Zumalacarregui abstained.
In the history of these sanguinary rencontres, one name was continually recurring, generally as the principal, sometimes the instigator of the quarrel.
There is a great gulf fixed between the sanguinary Jehovah of the Old Testament and the God of Love of Sainte Therese, and the Buddha worshipped in China has no traits in common with that venerated in India.
The sanguinary Spanish revolution of 1873 was brought about by one of these magical phrases of complex meaning on which everybody can put his own interpretation.
Were it possible to bring about the decentralisation which is to-day preoccupying minds lacking in foresight, the achievement would promptly have for consequence the most sanguinary disorders.
No doubt sanguinary wars and violent revolutions have been undertaken, and will continue to be undertaken, to impose institutions to which is attributed, as to the relics of saints, the supernatural power of creating welfare.
Thirty years afterwards this easy-going hero had become a sanguinary despot, who, after having usurped power and destroyed liberty, caused the slaughter of three million men solely to satisfy his ambition.
All the sanguinary laws of Spain and Portugal are not able to keep their gold and silver at home.
All the sanguinary laws of the customs are not able to prevent the importation of the teas of the Dutch and Gottenburg East India companies; because somewhat cheaper than those of the British company.
The most sanguinary are always to be found in countries where the greater part of the public revenue is in farm; the mildest, in countries where it is levied under the immediate inspection of the sovereign.
The truth was, the princess and her lover had a secret friend in Gardiner, who counteracted the sanguinary designs of the ambassador.
Having seen this punishment inflicted, Renard hastened towards the By-ward Tower, and avoiding the concourse that flocked round Xit and hissanguinary trophy, took a shorter cut, and arrived there before them.
The sanguinary conflict still raged with unabated violence throughout the whole kingdom, arming brother against brother, friend against friend.
After one sanguinary assault, the king became convinced that he had not with him sufficient force to carry the city.
There was a singular blending of the facetious with the horrible in this sanguinary scene.
The lightning gleamed in dazzling brilliance from cloud to cloud, and the thunder rolled over their heads as if an aerial army were meeting and charging in the sanguinary fight.
The energetic Duke of Guise, who had acquired much notoriety by the sanguinary spirit with which he had persecuted the Protestants, was to take the lead of the carnage.
As he stood upon an eminence which overlooked the field of battle, surrounded by a few faithful guards, he gazed with intense anguish upon the sanguinary scene spread out before him.
The monarch, when a boy, had been noted for his sanguinary spirit, delighting with his own hand to perform the revolting acts of the slaughter-house.
The aborigines of Australia are low enough in the scale of human intelligence, and most degraded and uncivilized, but they are mild and gentle in disposition, and not sanguinary like their New Zealand neighbors.
In 1863, after a long and sanguinary struggle, the Maories were entrenched in strong and fortified position on the Upper Waikato, at the end of a chain of steep hills, and covered by three miles of forts.
But," asked John Mangles, "did the submission of the Waikato district put an end to this sanguinary war?
It is not a matter of timid or brutish Australians, but of an intelligent and sanguinary race, cannibals greedy of human flesh, man-eaters to whom we should look in vain for pity.
Through the day of July 18th he stood with five thousand Poles and eight cannon against a Russian army of twenty thousand soldiers and forty cannon, repelling the enemy with sanguinary loss to the latter.
With Danton Kościuszko would have nothing to do, and in the sanguinary scenes of the Terror all public traces of the Pole are lost.
That the Freemasonry in the Philippines has shown itself of a distinctly sanguinary nature is not to be wondered at when we consider its close connection with Spain.
The first is a collection of various seals and stamps, forty-one in number, in use by the various branches of the Katipunan, the sanguinary secret society of the natives.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sanguinary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
