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  • Dozens of crossbow bolts protruded from its blood-slick hide and there were several Tiliad blades broken off in its flesh.

    Dust and Blood Ricardo Federico 2011

  • My hand was still pressed to the blood-slick roots of the tree, and something hummed in my ears.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • Then, unexpectedly, he stumbled on the now blood-slick deck, and I was on him.

    Juvenalia II: Action! ewillett 2008

  • My hand was still pressed to the blood-slick roots of the tree, and something hummed in my ears.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • He struggled to get onto his hands and knees, knowing he needed to get up and away before the sonuvabitch planted that knife in his back and finished him, but his blood-slick hands slipped across the tiles.

    Black Dust Mambo Adrian Phoenix 2010

  • My hand was still pressed to the blood-slick roots of the tree, and something hummed in my ears.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • He was on a prancing stallion at the head of the meadow, leading the way down the blood-slick hill.

    He Don't Know Him 2010

  • In vile alleyways with blood-slick cobblestones, impenetrable fog, and the wan glow of gaslight, lurk the inhuman denizens of nightmare.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Charles Prepolec 2009

  • In vile alleyways with blood-slick cobblestones, impenetrable fog, and the wan glow of gaslight, lurk the inhuman denizens of nightmare.

    Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes: GASLIGHT GROTESQUE: NIGHTMARE TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Coming Soon! Charles Prepolec 2009

  • Clubbed in Poland into a mass grave, he alone survives and crawls out through the blood-slick bodies of the innocent dead, among whom lies his wife.

    Mr. Sammler's City Myron Magnet 2008

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