ensanguined

Example Sentences

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Yet, with cheek ensanguined, Gay at heart she goes On the great adventure Where the north wind blows.

From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss

She held a carving-knife cut from a shingle, whose edge had been deeply ensanguined by poke-berry juice.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie

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

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)

In his perplexity and indignation an ensanguined mist passed across the vision of Sampei.

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis