" Well, they had no difficulty in recalling that dramatic episode, for it had occurred only a few days before; and a version of it that would have melted the stoniest heart had been presented to every girl in the village by Minnie Smellie herself, who, though it was Rebecca and not she who came off victorious in the bloody battle of words, nursed her resentment and intended to have revenge.
The skies hang full and dark—a wrack sails from the west; the clouds cast themselves into strange forms—arches and broad radiations; there rise resplendent mornings—glorious, royal, purple as monarch in his state; the heavens are one flame; so wild are they, they rival battle at its thickest—so bloody, they shame Victory in her pride.
Nor can it be denied that many of the family have been unhappy in their deaths, which have been sudden, bloody, and mysterious.
The dog was throttled off; his huge, purple tongue hanging half a foot out of his mouth, and his pendent lips streaming with bloody slaver.
His hands and feet still bore the bloody marks of the cords which bound him day and night.
A very shabby sentinel, with feet bound in bloody cloths, and his face as pale as chalk could make it, gnawed a dry crust as he kept his watch in the wintry night.
It was a very wonderful and exciting book, and the scene was laid in the reign of the famous English queen who is called by some people Bloody Mary.
Well, Charlie stuck it for a bit, then he stepped forward and he just said: 'Get out, you bloody swine.
The spade was not invariably called a bloody shovel.
When she first wrote to them and signed her name, that great name of Dester which twisted in and out of English history like a bloody thread, for its bearers constantly killed, she had taken it for granted that they would know who she was; and at the interview in Shaftesbury Avenue she was sure they did know, because they hadn't asked, as they otherwise would have, for references.
He was feeling better on Saturday, but both eyes remained bloody red in spots.
Ivan came home with a bloody nose and his mother asked, "What happened?
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly , Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
enjoy the bloody moment, people!
Me yelling at a security guard at an Imagine Dragons concert (front row) "can I have some bloody water" and Dan Reynolds heard me, "you want some water, okay!
But red's bloody beginning has transformed over millennia.
"The hardware team screamed bloody murder," Atkinson recalled.
As First Lord of the Admiralty in 1915, he was deeply involved in a campaign in the Dardanelles that could have shortened the course of a bloody world war.
,, Her brother Rhaegar battling the Usurper in the bloody waters of the Trident and dying for the woman he loved.
There never was a week when he did not draw a dozen bloody watches.