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The power of the animal makes me shudder and I crouch against the wall loking at my torn and bloodie friend.
ravenmaster Diary Entry ravenmaster 2005
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Loshak, and went on shore with him, and hee brought me to a heap of the Samoeds idols, which were in number aboue 300, the worst and the most vnartificiall worke that euer I saw: the eyes and mouthes of sundrie of them were bloodie, they had the shape of men, women and children, very grosly wrought, and that which they had made for other parts, was also sprinckled with blood.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Furthermore, they say that in Idumæa there is a fountaine which changeth color foure times in a yeere: for somtimes it is greene, somtime white, somtime bloodie, & somtimes muddy coloured.
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Furthermore, they say that in Idum鎍 there is a fountaine which changeth color foure times in a yeere: for somtimes it is greene, somtime white, somtime bloodie, & somtimes muddy coloured.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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This was the most furious and bloodie skirmish of all, in which the lord Admirall of England continued fighting amidst his enimies
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And he being further desirous to see their maner of fight, or rather somewhat more curious to behold, then mistrustful of their blowes, was like to haue borne a share in their bloodie tragedie, being twise wounded with their shot and arrowes, although not to the death.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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On the other hand, the transcriber of that MS., in the next paragraph, omits two or three passages, concerning "the bloodie beasts," and "bands," in referring to the persecutions at this time, by "Beaton and his Doctors."
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Prince, that he gave _himself to obey the tyrannie of those bloodie beasts_, and he _made a solemne vow_.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Beasts shall hunger, starve, and dye of the botch; many shippes, gallies, and hulkes shall be lost; and the bloodie flixes shall kill many men; all things deare, save corne.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton
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Besides these oppressions, diuers kinds of sicknesses vexed the people also, as the bloodie flix, and hot burning agues which then raged through the land, so that manie died thereof.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8) The Seventh Boke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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