Later, years it seemed, I saw the sun, a clot of flame.

For an hour she lay motionless, with her head resting on the club clotted with his hair and blood.

The powder in his hair was clotted in little streaks of white.

He ripped off his blood-stained clothes, scrubbed the sacrificial clots from his hair, and splashed the cool water luxuriously over his exhausted body.

The banks are undulating, and prettily interspersed with cottage villas, which peep out from the woods, and are clotted about the more cultivated parts; but, despite this, the dreary mantle of winter threw a cold churlishness over everything.

Blood from the Maghrabi's wounds slowly spread and clotted on the golden floor.

CHAPTER V INSPIRATION "Recite thou in the name of thy Lord who created, Yan, who hath made man from Clots of Blood, Recite thou, for thy Lord, he is most bounteous.