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from The Century Dictionary.

  • As warm as blood at its natural temperature.

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Examples

  • The thought, "wilderness," stirred the ghost animal, ran cold fingers through the pelt that wasn't there; mountains like black glass and slivers of snow and the blood-hot howl on ice-flavoured air . . .

    'The Last Werewolf' 2011

  • In the blood-hot heat, Harry knew his old life was nearly over.

    Over « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts 2008

  • The weight of what I just saw drops me to my knees and blood-hot tears stream down my cheeks.

    Lord Vishnu's Love Handles Will Clarke 2005

  • The weight of what I just saw drops me to my knees and blood-hot tears stream down my cheeks.

    Lord Vishnu's Love Handles Will Clarke 2005

  • The weight of what I just saw drops me to my knees and blood-hot tears stream down my cheeks.

    Lord Vishnu's Love Handles Will Clarke 2005

  • The weight of what I just saw drops me to my knees and blood-hot tears stream down my cheeks.

    Lord Vishnu's Love Handles Will Clarke 2005

  • As he trudged through the blood-hot dust in clumsy riding-boots and led his charger on the left flank of the guns, Harry Bellairs fumed and fretted in a way to make no man envy him.

    Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • Therefore, if by play he be hot and dry, bread will ill go down; and so if he cannot have drink but upon that condition, he will be forced to forbear; for, if he be very hot, he should by no means drink; at least a good piece of bread first to be eaten, will gain time to warm the beer blood-hot, which then he may drink safely.

    Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 11-20 1909

  • As he trudged through the blood-hot dust in clumsy riding-boots and led his charger on the left flank of the guns, Harry Bellairs fumed and fretted in a way to make no man envy him.

    Told in the East Talbot Mundy 1909

  • It gathered seed by day, when the bull pawed up the snow, and roosted at night between the mighty horns, snuggling in the wool, with its toes held warm against the monster's blood-hot neck.

    Wild Animals at Home Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

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