Jack would have given all the wealth he could claim in England, were it here and in his hand, simply for one square yard of the filth-stained ground beneath his feet to rest upon.
Oh, that endless walk, with bare, bleeding feet, through the blood-stained streets!
Provence alone contained sixty, whose delegates this year met in a synod at the blood-stained village of Mérindol.
The suppliants begged for an intermission of the cruel measures which had stained all France with blood.
She had a pencil, and in the breast of her dress was the Boer pass, the back of which, stained as it was with water, would serve the purpose of paper.
Nobody stirred, not even Frank Muller, who was gazing at her tear-stained face with a fierce smile playing round the corners of his clean-cut mouth, which his beard was trimmed to show.
He eyed the pass suspiciously all over, and then asked how it came to be stained with water.
The sky was full of lowering clouds, and the sullen orb of the setting sun had stained them perfectly blood-red.
One glance at Mrs. Neville's tear-stained face was enough for her.
Nevertheless it did take place, and it remains for ever a stained page in the volume of the deeds of England: a stained page of blackest ingratitude in the annals of France.
It consisted of innumerable strings of shells sawn into long strips like the pendants of an ear-ring, and stained of three separate colours, black, red, and white.
But now their blood hasstained my very mat, as they will call it, and the consequences no one can foresee.
A mile or so out from the battery, on a seldom used track that led to an abandoned alluvial workings, a stained and weather-worn biscuit-tin had been nailed to an iron-bark tree.
I was a student in the third class of an Athenian Gymnasion in 1901, when the Gospel Riots stained with blood the streets of Athens.
But these fragments remind one of the gold-stained ruins of the Akropolis against the bright Attic sky.
FN#195] The hands being stained with Henna and perhaps indigo in stripes are like the ring rows of chain armour.
His back was skinned and swollen, blue, and stainedwith blood.
Certainly, at the time I put it on, it was saturated with lotions, and stained by contact with poultices and plasters of all imaginable kinds.
Along the back of the chamber was a raised bench about two feet high, and in the face of it was a niche about twenty inches by eighteen, which was much smoke-stained and had probably been used for burning offerings of copal.
By fair application and long industry my wealth has been obtained; and it shall never justly be said, that the reputation of my latter days was stained with acts of baseness and meanness.
Aziel started, and turned to see a man standing at his side, clothed in robes that had been rich, but were now torn and stained with travel, and wearing on his head a black cap in shape not unlike the fez that is common in the East to-day.
Now, priestess, say your say with the prince yonder and let us be gone swiftly from this blood-stained place.
But when I prayed you not, I spoke from the heart, and bitterly, bitterly do I grieve that for my sake you should have stained your hands with such a sin.
You shoot well," and he pointed to his blood-stained helm, which was still transfixed by the arrow.
Her pulses leaped, unaccountably, and the crimson flush again stained her cheeks; but she sat rigid in the saddle, and looked straight ahead, pretending she had not discovered the presence of horse and rider behind her.
His beard was stained with dust, his hair was gray with it; his clothing looked as though he had been dragged through it.
I was informed that there were many human bones, in old Indian graves in the same district, stained of as black a dye.
Many of the hatchets are stained of an ochreous-yellow colour, when they have been buried in yellow gravel, others have acquired white or brown tints, according to the matrix in which they have been enclosed.
She fell on her knees in her garret before the ikon, and, with floods of bitter tears, pressed her face on the dirt-stained floor.
In this, to my horror, I discovered one shirt the breast of which was stained a deep crimson with his blood, and pierced by a ragged hole that showed where a bullet had singed through into his heart.
And if I mistake not there was in the bundle a tattered shirt that had been grievously stained by the breaking of a bottle of red ink in my portmanteau, and burnt in one place where an ash fell from my cigar as I made up the bundle.
In stained glass we should think of a pattern in lead lines inclosing one of translucent colour, each being interdependent and united to form a harmonious whole.
And they produced his inner garment stained with false blood.
This passage was revealed when Mohammed received the wounds above mentioned at the battle of Ohod, and cried out, How shall that people prosper who have stained their prophet's face with blood, while he called them to their Lord?
Another red cap had gone down on one knee, cursing, and there was a fresh blot of crimson on a dark-stained shirt.
At this stage of the death drama most bulls would be breathing hard; but though the brown velvet of Vivillo’s neck was stained dark crimson, neither fatigue nor pain made his strong heart labour.
It was hard to show no impatience as the douanier’s lazy, cigarette-stained hand wandered among the contents of the suit-case.
Partitions blood-stained have a reddened smear, And Terror unrelieved is master here.
Darkly he moved on, A hideous spectre hesitating, white, And ever as he went, a drop of blood Implacably from the darkness broke away And stained that awful whiteness.
Poor victim of a punishment unending, Torn like a sapling from its mother earth, So young, I could not tell what crime impending Had stainedme from my birth.
The forest looked a great gulf all around, And on the rock of Corbus there were found Secret and blood-stained precipices tall.
One look at the distorted face, dark with injected blood, the dreadful glassy glare of the eyes, the foam-stained lips, told that all was over.
They would have been stained with the blood of the niggers he traded in out yonder,' answered Maulevrier.
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