ensanguined
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From 'midst these walls, whose ruins spread around, And scattered clods that heap the ensanguined ground, Three thousand souls of warriors, dead in fight, To better regions took their happy flight.
From Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
When the sun with an ensanguined glow shot upward from the ocean, his beams glanced on a dark object which lay ahead.
From Jack Buntline by Kingston, William Henry Giles
"It's a cinnabar boat," said Nivin as they stared down at that silent crew of ensanguined devils.
From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John
A vast red flood stretched suddenly from one bank to the other, and the Nile again rolled ensanguined waves to the sea.
From The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt by Sumichrast, Frederick C. de (Frederick Caesar de)
It would be tiresome to relate much more of this ensanguined, interminable game of give and take which was the chief business of the Highland clans in that century.
From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Paine, Ralph Delahaye
