Read full poem →“And here’s a bloody hand to shake,
And oh, man, here’s good-bye;
Dictionary Entry
To draw blood from one's opponent in a fight.
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Common Phrases
. bloodybattle bloodywar bloodysunday bloodyhell bloodymary bloody
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Poetry examples for “bloody”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →MAY JANET 282
THE BLOODY SON 284
THE SEA-SWALLOWS 288
Read full poem →Whose yet Tinfeathered qiit!i& her fail 5
The edge all bloody from its breast
He draws, and does his strolte detesl.
Read full poem →Eious deprecations and grief-mingled fury of Edith (upon the murder of
er tather by Rollo, in the Bloody Brother) to the gri^* hnd fury of Mac-
duff, upon his wife and children's murder. Our authors will not, we hope,
Read full poem →of it, which breaks out in many parts of their works, and particularly in
The Bloody Brother and The Fair Maid of the Inn, where they began
that admirable banter which the excellent Butler carried on exactly in the
Read full poem →The Double Marriage vol. 2
The Bloody Brother, or Rollo
Read full poem →and as he did, the boy brought his knee up into David’s face. David fell.
He had a bloody nose.
Read full poem →Quickly soft words hard doors wide-open strook.
Verses reduce the hornËd bloody moon,
And call the sun's white horses back[237] at noon.
Read full poem →That unto me at dawn was now a prayer
For night, at night a bloody heart-wrung tear
For day again; for _this_, these groans