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— E.E. Cummings

It is said that if the dead who died in the Great

War were placed head to feet, they would stretch

from New York to San Francisco, and from San

Francisco back again to New York; and if those

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taste blood

Part of Speechverb

To sense weakness in another, encouraging one to attack or to press home an advantage in a debate etc.

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Related Words

smell blood in the waterdraw bloodbloodybloodgo for the throatlet bloodhave someone's bloodshed blood

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