I pulled back the cloak, and saw that the unhappy girl had broken a blood-vessel, and even as I lifted her up I knew that she was in a dying condition.

I had been asleep and some of the others were still asleep, when suddenly I heard the yelp of blood hounds in the distance.

When injected, it will slowly raise the blood pressure and keep it raised for some time, and will increase the flow of urine from the kidneys and of milk from the breasts.

It is a familiar creature, seems to regard the human family as its Blood relations, and is always ready to sucker them.

He would, in virtue of his West Point insignia, be a knighted member of the blood royal of the republic.

Its name accords well with the character of the "early times" in California, and may perhaps have been suggested by the predominant color of the metamorphic slates in which it is in great part eroded; or more probably by blood-stains made by the unfortunate animals which were compelled to slip and shuffle awkwardly over its rough, cutting rocks.

The sun had long since sunk behind the trees in a cloud of blood-red vapor, which seemed to me significant of the day.

" "Why's that?" "Oh, battles are over and blood-feuds are done, but the need for a story-teller abides.

" "When a fortune beyond reasonable dreams was placed upon the head of Charles Stuart, for whom our ancestors fought and beggared themselves, his secret was in the keeping of scores of peasants, and the blood-money lay idle.

Ringan danced round me, tapping me lightly on nose and cheek, but hard enough to make the blood flow, I defended myself as best I could, while my temper rose rapidly and made me forget my penitence.

"That was not enough to appease the bitter blood lust of the Germans in defeat.

"Cheer up, man," he cried; "you've got off light, for there's no a scratch on your lily-white cheek, and the blood-letting from the nose will clear out the dregs of Moro's hocus.

It was evident that the stimulus to the pancreas was carried by way of the blood stream.

EXERCISE - Blood (Simple exercises in tracing blood relationships among words are given at the end of the chapter.

So they brought him in with the severe blood-poisoning that sets in in almost all cases of such a nature.

The man's tone, even more than his words, made my blood boil, and I began to congratulate myself on being thus accidentally in a position to protect, if need be, the girl whom this fellow was evidently bullying.

They might almost have been blood brothers, except for differences in the face.

Several plants are said to owe their dark-stained blossoms to the blood-drops which trickled from the cross; amongst these being the wood-sorrel, the spotted persicaria, the arum, the purple orchis, which is known in Cheshire as "Gethsemane," and the red anemone, which has been termed the "blood-drops of Christ."

Lay it to my confusion of mindto the great shock I had received, to anything but my own blood-guiltiness, and take up the matter as it now stands.

The extraordinarily well protected position of the pituitary, its persistence throughout life, and its abundant blood supply, emphasize its vital importance.

I consent to your saying "blood horse," if you like.

The nerve cells become more sensitive to stimuli, more sugar is poured into the blood from the liver, more red blood corpuscles are squeezed into the circulation from the blood lakes of the liver and spleen.

J. B. Bernardin (A); 20Nov69; R475610. BERNHEIM, BERTRAM M. Adventure in blood transfusion.

and now the whole field were looking on at his mishap; between disgust and the start he turned almost sick, and felt the blood rush into his cheeks and forehead as he heard a shout of coarse jovial laughter burst out close to him, and the old master of the hounds, Squire Lavington, roared aloud 'A pretty sportsman you are, Mr. Smith, to fall asleep by the cover- side and let your horse downand your pockets, too!

Slip over the side and lend him a hand, will you?" Harris did so without question and a moment or two later the German tumbled into the boat, where he lay panting, blood streaming from an open wound in his forehead.