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  • Here's something to wet your whistle (or is it whet? hell, I don't know, wet is more of a girl thing) ... first appearing in 2002, from Brazilian publisher Opera Graphica (and Editor Universo HQ), comes Brakan, the Barbarian Avenger #1, The Sanguinary Sect!

    Mozart Couto! Cromsblood 2009

  • Sanguinary battles (as in A.H. 817.) have even been fought within its sacred precincts, which afford the most open spot in the town for skirmishing.

    Travels in Arabia 2003

  • Worst of all, he was dreadfully thirsty and ravenously hungry; he was unsure whether a splash of marsh water was responsible, or the blood of the Sanguinary Deception, but something had disrupted his Spell of Sustenance.

    The Misenchanted Sword Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1985

  • Irrelevantly, as he looked at the hand, Valder noticed that the last traces of the Sanguinary Deception had vanished.

    The Misenchanted Sword Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1985

  • Quite possibly the old hermit was not as great a wizard as he might pretend to be — although he had certainly done well enough with minor spells like the Sanguinary Deception or the Finger of Flame.

    The Misenchanted Sword Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1985

  • Those who attend the Sanguinary Field come here, the famous combatants and heroes, the spectators and physicians, even the ephors.

    The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

  • Even while I spoke, I was recalling the way Agia had behaved at the Sanguinary Field, and the strip of black I had seen by the hipparch's ear.

    The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

  • But you'll have to get your avern yourself, and find your way to the Sanguinary Fields.

    The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

  • Thus by the interference of HIM who declares a hair of our head cannot fall without his permission, was an innocent people saved from the murderous designs of a Sanguinary Foe.

    An Impartial Narrative of the Most Important Engagements Which Took Place Between His Majesty's Forces and the Rebels, During the Irish Rebellion, 1798. John Jones

  • The leaves were applied in former days as a poultice to wounds; and because of its healing and astringent virtues when so used, the plant gained the names Sanguinary, Thousand leaf, Old Man's pepper,

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

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