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But in the blood-stirring heat of elections, my gut contradicts what I know to be true, that the Democratic party, especially at the top, is a terminally corrupt institution and has outlived its time.

Clancy Sigal: A Disappointed Democrat? You bet Clancy Sigal 2010

But in the blood-stirring heat of elections, my gut contradicts what I know to be true, that the Democratic party, especially at the top, is a terminally corrupt institution and has outlived its time.

Clancy Sigal: A Disappointed Democrat? You bet Clancy Sigal 2010

But in the blood-stirring heat of elections, my gut contradicts what I know to be true, that the Democratic party, especially at the top, is a terminally corrupt institution and has outlived its time.

Clancy Sigal: A Disappointed Democrat? You bet Clancy Sigal 2010

Perhaps he never would have moved, but at last a speaker made such a particularly ripping & blood-stirring remark about him that the audience rose & roared & yelled & stamped & clapped an entire minute…Gen. Sherman stepped to him, laid his hand affectionately on his shoulder, bent respectfully down & whispered in his ear.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Perhaps he never would have moved, but at last a speaker made such a particularly ripping & blood-stirring remark about him that the audience rose & roared & yelled & stamped & clapped an entire minute…Gen. Sherman stepped to him, laid his hand affectionately on his shoulder, bent respectfully down & whispered in his ear.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

I was 12 years old and attending my first opera, and even though my vantage point was a football field away from the stage, I sat enraptured for more than three hours, held less by one of Verdi's most improbable plots than by the volcanic orchestra and feverish voices that filled the hall with one blood-stirring melody after another.

Is Licitra Tomorrow's Tenor? The Heir Apparent Appraised 2003

I, as second in command, on seeing this, said a few blood-stirring words to them, and Obanjo sent a few more of great power at them over his shoulder, and so we kept the paddles going.

Travels in West Africa 2003

Perhaps he never would have moved, but at last a speaker made such a particularly ripping and blood-stirring remark about him that the audience rose and roared and yelled and stamped and clapped an entire minute — Grant sitting as serene as ever-when General Sherman stepped up to him, laid his hand affectionately on his shoulder, bent respectfully down, and whispered in his ear.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

The three musicians were versatile, and they alternated their fast, blood-stirring jigs with slower dances that let her and Seolar catch their breath.

Memory of Fire Lisle, Holly 2002

The enemy had been driven to and not merely toward the Potomac, but after the blood-stirring events at Front Royal, Middletown, and Winchester, the advance to the river was an anticlimax.

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001