32 examples of bloodstained in sentences

The allies were now in possession of the bloodstained ruins of Sebastopol, and the last of the Black Sea fleet was at the bottom of the harbor.

A half-run racea story cut off in the middle; for he was a young man still; his hair, all dusty, draggled, and bloodstained, had no streak of gray; his hands were smooth and youthful.

Bloodstained, ragged, wild with the madness of murder, they crowded to the barricade.

His hand, all muddy and bloodstained, still held a revolver.

Her loosened hair fell in a long wave of gold down to the bloodstained hand outstretched toward her.

A grinning figure like a bloodstained Punch is all that speaks for the best brains in Bulgaria.

But the Jews had to wander forty years in the wilderness; and Christendom has had to wander too, in strange and bloodstained paths, for one thousand eight hundred years and more.

Should not we the Hindus wash our bloodstained hands before we ask the English to wash theirs?

"I never want to touch your bloodstained fingers!

Many a time as a boy must he have been told how long and how heroically Saguntum had withstood the assaults and baffled the triumph of Hannibal; how bravely Viriathus had fought, and how shamefully he fell; and how at length the unequal contest, which reduced Spain to the condition of a province, was closed, when the heroic defenders of Numantia, rather than yield to Scipio, reduced their city to a heap of bloodstained ruins.

And, uncontented with a fall so dread, Draw'st bloodstained weapons on my darkened head, Beware!

It might perhaps have been better for Seneca's happiness if he had never left Corsica, or set his foot again in that Circean and bloodstained court.

And then I picture thee some bloodstained Holyrood, Dread haunted palace of the bat and owl, whence steal, Shrouded all day, lost murdered spirits of the wood, And fright young happy nests with homeless hoot and squeal.

And she sprang from the platform into his arms, and then, covering her face with both her hands, sank down among the bloodstained sand.

Under the curtains of the lumbering ambulance-waggons marked with the Geneva red cross could be seen livid faces tied up in bloodstained bandages.

Bloodstained, indeed, it may be, but still needful at these times, since it is not restored to those to whom it really belongs.

Macalister's face was set and savage, and there was a cold, hard look in his eye, a stern ferocity on his mud and bloodstained face that convinced the German the end of the five minutes would also surely see his end.

She looked past Annie as if she saw something she rather relished; just so her ancestors must have looked when they were dancing before a bloodstained Congo fetish.

There he was stopped by an immense crowdalways the same figures naked and bloodstained, but here their looks were those of enraged fiends.

There was Estelle, all disheveled and bloodstained.

France draws around her her tattered and bloodstained robe, yet what matters the outer raiment?

It seemed to me strange that in the carriage where I dreamed about the beginning of a new life some other life had perhaps breathed its last; also that with bloodstained hands I had been thinking of peace and happiness.

" Having achieved the haven of loose Pathan trousers and a muslin shirt (worn over them) in the privacy of his bed-room, Mr. Ross-Ellison, looking rather un-English, sat on a camp-cot (he never really liked chairs) and read, as follows, from a sheaf of neatly-written (and bloodstained) sheets of foolscap.

In the old Mexican picture-books the usual representation of the sun is "a wheel, often brilliant with many colours, the rays of which are so many bloodstained tongues, by means of which the Sun receives his nourishment" (E.J. Payne, History of the New World called America, Oxford, 1892, i. 521).

The tide had swirled over the crest, down the reverse slope, and up at last to the top of that bloodstained knoll of chalk known as the Butte de Warlencourt.

32 examples of  bloodstained  in sentences