How To Use Bloody In A Sentence
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He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.
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Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers.
The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
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It was a bloody business, but the rules were the rules.
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The only thing I was thinking at the time was what a bloody bum deal I was getting.
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Thomas writes colorfully of blackguards and mistresses, salty sea dogs and young midshipmen, bloody quarterdecks and Parisian salons.
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Russia may still prefer to stay neutral in the bloody conflict with Iraq.
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Scabbards, broken arms, artillery horses, wrecks of gun carriages, and bloody garments strewed the scene.
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He believed that socialism would — and must — come to America, not through armed, bloody revolution but through popular participation in representational government and the constant expansion of the state.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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The film begins by offering discontinuous glimpses of three unconnected characters, then flashes a preview of the climactic moment, when all three somehow come together in a bloody motel room.
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College students are stranded in an abandoned town whose only law is the ghost of ruthless gunslinger Bloody Bill Anderson and his posse of vicious zombies.
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Because then that bald spokesguy with the BIG VOICE!! and unblinking stare is on my TV every bloody commercial break.
I hate it when The Brick has a sale
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I don’t know whether this is just a stumble, or the beginning of a real fall, for the bloody-handed, doughfaced Democratic leadership.
House of Representatives rejects war funding bill
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If this takes off one day I might even discover an egg mayonnaise sandwich for sale without bloody pond weed cress.
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‘Now soak it off with warm water,’ she said, gesturing to the bloody linen.
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Even worse, thanks to the meddling Tarnian magicker, that bloody boy now owned a living sigil!
Conqueror's Moon
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She was furious - screaming bloody murder at the manager!
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The Frenchie is a Bloody with a Dijon bite balanced with a blue cheese-stuffed olive plus pickled asparagus, a pickle, lemon and lime.
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Six bloody hundred and twenty-bleeding-eight people sunning themselves in Athens at our expense!
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He screamed, he shouted, complaining about the players("bloody, bloody, bloody useless" was about the most repeatable description).
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It's bloody dangerous, riding a doped steeplechaser.
The Elvis Latte
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That bloody Murder Squad of yours can't exist for ever.
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To the insatiable bloody appetite of this creature nothing comes amiss; he takes the male ostrich by surprise, and slays that wariest of wild things on his nest; He captures little birds with the dexterity of a cat, and hunts for diurnal armadillos; he comes unawares upon the deer and huanaco, and, springing like lightning on them, dislocates their necks before their bodies touch the earth.
The Naturalist in La Plata
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You might even downgrade it to bar fare, since the only stalks most guys eat are served alongside hot wings or immersed in a Bloody Mary.
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At eight months George developed a bloody discharge and the eye problem returned, together with a clear mucous discharge from the right ear.
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Ye see we march on the tap o Touthop-rigg after we pass the Pomoragrains; for the Pomoragrains, and Slackenspool, and Bloodylaws, they come in there, and they belang to the Peel; but after ye pass Pomoragrains at a muckle great saucer-headed cutlugged stane, that they ca Charlies Chuckie, there Dawston Cleugh and Charlies-hope they march.
Chapter XXXVI
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He seems to have bloody well disappeared altogether.
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We are bound together in this bloody conflict where the body counts have to break double digits to really get our attention anymore.
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For a man whose playing career was characterised by dogged resilience and bloody-minded determination, the manager cuts a very different figure.
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All quibbles about the merits of that series aside, as an English major, it makes me happy when an author of prose fiction becomes stinking bloody rich.
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He wrote letters to congressmen telling them that something awful and ‘bloody’ had occurred.
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Accusing Alex had simply been a way of avoiding her own guilt and Anna's, bloody Anna's.
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'The Bloody Mary has been called the world's most complex cocktail, and from the standpoint of flavour chemistry, you've got a blend of hundreds of flavour compounds that act on the taste senses.
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His lip was split, his nose bloody, and his eyes were both ringed by dark bruises.
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One of them has a bloody nose that looks like a bloody mouth, all red.
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a bloody nose
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I can't get this bloody stupid thing to work.
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It was in these vales that the Saxons of the plain and the Gad of the mountains had many a desperate and bloody encounter, in which it was frequently impossible to decide the palm of victory between the mailed chivalry of the low country and the plaided clans whom they opposed.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Playing it at my desk this afternoon, it was so startlingly apt (right down to the name of the bloody airport that K will be flying back from on Friday!) that I nearly lost it and blubbed in the middle of the office.
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A future presidential candidate might have participated in harrowing door-to-door sweeps during the bloody fight for Fallujah last month.
December 2004
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The drink which connects Black Russian, Screwdriver, Salty Dog and Bloody Mary is the colorless, savourless but strong vodka.
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In " It's a bloody miracle! ", " bloody " is used as an intensive word.
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The family was forced to leave their homes after a bloody vendetta.
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Although I've only recently stuck my toe in the fast-moving blogstream, I've been a fan -- and an advocate -- ever since bloggers took the Trent Lott/Strom Thurmond story, ran with it, and helped turn the smug Senate majority leaderinto the penitent former Senate majority leader, a bit of bloody political chum floating in a tank of hungry sharks.
April 2004
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These were the first casualties of that bloody war, and they did not even have time to draw their swords before the knives slashed across their throats.
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The restaurant smelled of bloody meat and salad dressing.
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His old fellow made his tin by selling jalap to Zulus or some bloody swindle or other.
Ulysses
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She slapped him on his wounded cheek, bloodying her hand.
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This 'bloody baboonery', as the communists called the highly publicized police performance, was preceded by inspired press reports of evidence - more sensational than the notorious Zinoviev letter, - of a revolutionary plot directed from Moscow to prepare the way for the black republic.
Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 18
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As the final whistle blew on a 3-3 draw that featured the sending-off of pantomime villain Sinisa Mihajlovic, I turned to him and said: "Bloody hell, that was quite a game.
The Auteur proves his value in offhand dismissals of class acts | Harry Pearson
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'Will you apologize?' 'Not bloody likely !'
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Horace Greeley, editor of the "New York Tribune," the leading Republican journal of the North, contented himself with referring to Brown and his followers as "mistaken men," but added that he would "not by one reproachful word disturb the bloody shrouds wherein John Brown and his compatriots are sleeping.
The end of an era,
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If it means to override freedom of expression, then it can bloody well go on the record and say so.
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That defence thou hast, betake thee tot: of what nature the wrongs are thou hast done him, I know not; but thy intercepter, full of despite, bloody as the hunter, attends thee at the orchard-end.
Act III. Scene IV. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will
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You're not Henry the Fifth on a flying bloody charger, you know.
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On the forward slopes of this mountain, towards Monfalcone, terrible and bloody battles had been fought.
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Today for most they are a faded memory; yet at the time, the battle was bloody and fought with great ferocity.
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Even a staunch admirer of Turner, the redoubtable art critic Brian Sewell wrote at the time the Tate was mounting its campaign to save The Blue Rigi painting from being sold abroad: This is just bloody silly.
A legacy Turner would have approved of | Charles Saatchi
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This guy had thrown down the gauntlet, and it was a bloody t-shirt with Snark emblazed across it.
Archive 2006-04-02
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Now, every bloody tale from a slasher series such as Halloween to the video nasties of the 1970s can trace some element of their parentage back to Psycho.
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When I told my big brother about the whole thing, he said I was bloody stupid.
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In the 1920s, they were leaders in a series of bloody strikes that crippled Hawaiian sugar cane growers.
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When the sun of the Stuarts set forever on the bloody plain of Culloden, Prince Charlie fled the stricken field with a few followers to the mountain fastnesses of Scotland.
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This rail strike is a bloody nuisance.
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His bloody, broken body curled on the floor in a lifeless heap.
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A brief sidenote: the name Bloody Mary is associated with Queen Mary I of England, daughter of King Henry VIII.
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He emerged from the discussions bloody but unbowed.
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And then I got almost to the end of the block and realised I had cut a large, central piece from within the bloody selvedge and will need to unpick the whole thing and start over.
Olympics
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What they had in common was not the name adorning their bloody altars but that which they either did not know or denied:
The New American
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Be bloody good to see the parents again, I miss living within driving distance.
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A beautiful bright and sunny morning - but bloody cold.
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'I'm not coming.' 'Yes, you bloody well are!'
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How puerile, how unjust, how derivative, how bloody unhistorical can you get?
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The rail strike is a bloody nuisance.
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Noyes asserts that the tube sometimes perforates the side of the ducks throat, and he gives Rat Munching on Ducks Bloody Ass Wounds its public debut as he notes, Rats were eating these two ducks alive.
The Foie Gras Wars
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Scattered across the asphalt like murderer's footprints, puddles of water turn bloody with sunset"), it vanishes when Stewart settles in to show us freelance detective Diane Fletcher using her ability as a "shaper" (someone who can read and experience the emotions of others) to help policeman Rolly French investigate the death of Jonathan Mask.
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Unfortunately for him, Alfred had been well trained and Bastide staggered back, clutching a bloody nose.
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From the bloody hematoma on his forehead to the true Manchu beard-mustache combo, bloody cuts on his body and guaranteed-to-offend tattoos, this seven-inch tall likeness of the late punker best known for using the stage as a toilet, performing naked and attacking his fans is for the hardcore only.
Boing Boing
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On the left, Bloody Post, a little in advance of the sangar, took its toll of the defenders.
The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918
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That bloody lurcher cross breed was there again.
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His opponents always ended up with bloody noses.
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Still, for a felid that lacks sabre teeth, it's amazing (and gruesome) to see such a bloody spectacle.
Giant killers: macropredation in lions
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These institutions have also contributed materially to the growth of social tensions, communalism and ultimately bloody fratricidal conflicts.
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The shadow of that bloody event hung over the decision to move against the student strike.
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I ate my first bloody rare steak and you shot the coyote that still hangs in the family room next to one of your other first trophies, the thick horns of a mule deer.
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‘I sist you to compear before the Great White Throne, and I warn you the summons shall be bloody and sudden.’
Lay Morals
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Finally the English officer, a great lanky fellow with his trouser leg half torn off and a bloody bandage round his knee, succeeded in wrenching the banner away, but the Frog officer, who was about four feet tall, grabbed an end of it, and they came stumbling down in my direction, yelling at each other in their respective lingoes, with their crews joining in.
Flashman's Lady
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It must be distinguished from ecchymosis the result of a bruise, by making an incision into the part; in the case of hypostasis a few small bloody points of divided arteries will be seen, in the case of ecchymosis the subcutaneous tissues are infiltrated with blood-clot.
Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
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Llewellyn created another Saunderson legend in the midst of that bloody battle.
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After the fight, Ali was bloody but unbowed .
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These divisions were placed in the Bloody Lane because they had been heavily attrited during the engagements at South Mountain.
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Well, I agree with the thesis of what Terry's saying, that we can't keep on bloodying each other up, going until March or April and not have a nominee when it is appearing that we have one strong frontrunner emerging.
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[FN#214] This "diapedesis" of bloodstained tears is frequently mentioned in The Nights; and the "Bloody Sweat" is well-known by name.
Arabian nights. English
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They knew bloody well that these people were doing harmful things to innocent people.
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But the black smoke of the granary belching against the white hills, or the kyloe, houghed and maimed, roaring in its agony, or the fugitive brought bloody on his knees among the rocks -- God's mercy!
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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It was a great hunk of meat, nice and bloody in the middle, between two massive doorsteps of batch loaf.
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The restaurant smelled of bloody meat and salad dressing.
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Three years after Stewart's disappearance, Boone's life was again devastated when a Cherokee tortured and killed his eldest child, 16-year-old James, and later another son, a brother, and a nephew were also killed during the often bloody fighting over the settling of Kentucky.
Great American Hunters: Daniel Boone
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In one of her famously impassioned speeches - between threats to bloody noses - she blasted what she called the objectification, disrespect and "violence" toward women, slamming her fist so hard against the lectern that her bracelet shattered.
NYT > Home Page
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After reading your article, ‘Robert Kerrey and the bloody legacy of Vietnam,’ I feel like shouting a hearty ‘God bless you!’
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Mexico's economy, already hurting from recession and a bloody drug war, is set to scream.
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They had a bloody good root in all our stuff, just for the hell of it.
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It may need to be as vegan as a freshly plucked dandelion leaf, or as bloody as a rare grilled haunch of venison.
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The city has a long and bloody history of religious cantonisation and gang warfare.
The Mumbai Atrocities
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It soon became clear to me, that the dialogue about Lebanon and Damascus, which was followed up with a clishmaclaver anent dirks, daggers, red cloaks, and other bloody weapons which made all my flesh grue, had some connexion with Taffy's papers on the table -- out of which James had been diverting himself by reading bits here and there, at random like.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
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For old ulcers which occur on the fore part of the legs; they become bloody and black: - Having pounded the flower of the melilot and mixed it with honey, use as a plaster.
On Ulcers
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He was injured in the bloody suppression of the uprising.
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Well, they were right, in that it was a place for someone much older, not a jumped-up bloody loudmouth like me.
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a mother, and father, and wife, and orphan, have had reason to maledict the _bloody Battles of the Factions_.
The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
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Captain Cleaver aka Daniel James elaborates a terse warcry in this Red Herring piece: game developers clash in a ruthless and bloody 10-year battle for control of the online game industry.
The flogging will continue
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Don't say you are a procrastinator; really, it's just that the pace of this bloody age is too fast.
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There may be difficult breathing and a one sided bloody nasal discharge.
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Eelam, which is locked in a bloody war with the Sinhalese government over an independent Tamil state.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Brian Cardinal might give you a bloody nose or break your kneecaps (and then smirkily argue with the refs) but you'll probably still score in the process.
City Pages - Balls! Sports Blog
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I do believe this bloody business betrays the involvement of our old friend Professor Lionel Atwill.
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He had a swollen right orbit, a laceration over the right elbow, and bloody discharge from both nostrils.
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Look ye," says he to the governor, rolling his quid of tobacco from one cheek to another -- "look ye, we're after this and that, and if we don't get it, why, I'll tell you plain, we'll burn them bloody crafts of yours that we've took over yonder, and cut the weasand of every clodpoll aboard of 'em.
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
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Tristan threw up his arms. "Look! The bloody thing's going straight for that hut. " He drew harder on his Woodbine.
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Restructuring, aided by waves of computerization, meant wiping out entire layers of management, a process that was bloody and sometimes deeply unjust.
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What a bloody waste of time!
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There is now a horrific and bloody war being waged within me.
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The prime minister would, it is said, have taken the plunge had it not been for the bloody-minded insistence of his chancellor in sticking to the Treasury's five tests.
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It may need to be as vegan as a freshly plucked dandelion leaf, or as bloody as a rare grilled haunch of venison.
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Every time I sing that line, I have to compete with that bloody trombone!
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If the giant was clever, he would have worn a helmet, thus deflecting the potentially lethal blow, and then proceeded to beat David into a throbbing bloody pulp.
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He simply outstayed them from five furlongs out, which is how he liked to win his races, and you have to be a bloody tough horse to do it like that.
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It's a tattoo, not a bloody button - get it sized large enough to have a bit of impact.
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Did the film whet your appetite for another long, epic story of love, loyalty and bloody warfare?
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Jerry Rawlings rode into office on the back of a bloody military coup in 1979.
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Later medieval chivalry has been criticized for being decadent and other-worldly, yet it never lost touch with the changing military dimensions of war nor was blind to its bloody realities.
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The discharge from the wound altered from a bloody sanies to a white serous fluid.
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In a bloody brawl Botha hit the deck in the eighth round, but stormed back to all but render Briggs unconscious in the 10th and final session.
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He celebrated the larrikin streak in the Australian soul, the irreverence, the hedonism and physicality and of course the bloody-minded stoicism, obduracy and deviousness.
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If you were able to see the Great Wall from space, you'd be able to see the bloody motorway system.
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Infamous for it's explicit rape scene and bloody violence which got it put on the UK's "Video Nasties" list, Karl Howman ("Jacko" of Brush Strokes fame) and director/stunt double Vic Armstrong play the rapists (so most of their big scene has ended up in the BBFC's personal viewing drawer).
Exposé aka Trauma aka The House On Straw Hill
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*** I should note that this particular nightmare is kind of embarrassingly humorous in retrospect, because the me-devouring monsters in it were obviously to an adult Muppets with the serial numbers rubbed off and huge scary bloody teeth added****.
Making Light: Open thread 136
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The United States fought a bloody and repressive war to prevent Filipino independence, and participated in the military operations against the Boxers in China during the summer of 1900.
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this is what happens when you contract-out the supply of services and materials. the argument used, as has been used where i work, to justify using contractors than in house staff is that 'overall it's cheaper' - but, funnily enough, there's never any figures to back this up - it's 'sensitive' - too bloody right it's sensitive - the idiot that came up with the idea daren't let anyone know what's going on.
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George A. Romero's 1973 original was an underbudgeted thriller about a Pennsylvania town in the grip of a bloody nightmare: Biological weapons accidentally dumped in the water supply, turning the locals into lunatics.
'A Prophet': The Crime Epic Reborn
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There is a danger that America's metaphoric 'war on drugs' may turn into a bloody reality.
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Punch at this time was a bitter critic of the methods of recruiting, and his anti-militaristic zeal reached a climax in a protest against the advertisements used at Birmingham and elsewhere, in which he calls the recruiting sergeant "the clown in the bloody pantomime of glory.
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
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He screamed down the alley, jumping up and pounding his fists into the wall behind him, bloodying his knuckles.
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Lower bowel inflammation typically causes nausea, loss of appetite and fever followed by abdominal pain, hematemesis and bloody diarrhea.
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Most of these groups squandered popular support in a bloody coup that ousted President Zviad Gamsakhurdia in early 1992.
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The senate assembled, he declares the occasion of convening them; a bloody battle just impendent between two mighty armies of ancient and modern creatures, called books, wherein the celestial interest was but too deeply concerned.
The Battle of the Books
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It astringes and constipates; hence employed in dysentery, diarrhoea, and bloody urine; the juice placed on a piece of cotton, and inserted in the nostril, will arrest hemorrhage.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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While depression can inspire some people to greatness, the vast majority are knocked into useless turpitude, so it's no wonder that the left has been so bloody useless this year.
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Finding out things in my line of business isn't like going to the bloody public library.
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Chilly formality at the top covered bloody conflict in areas contested by the armies of the two parties, as the one sought to continue its expansion, the other to halt it.
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Hamlet," so far is he from any idea of blood revenge, that he doubts and disobeys the message from the other world, doubts indeed the existence of any other world, and dies at last not a bloody death, but by a foil "unbated and envenomed.
The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant
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That sod Wilkins, excuse my French, has taken my bloody parking space.
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She did bloody well to win that race.
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The atrocious scheme of "assorting" the Jews is nailed down by Vorontzov as "a bloody operation over a whole class of people," which is threatened "not only with hardships, but also with annihilation through poverty.
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894)
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The first was the Imperium's bloody-minded refusal to die beneath the weight of heresy, secession, alien aggres?sion and daemonancy.
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Guns were run up close to the parapet, and double charges of canister played their part in the bloody work.
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The title was also changed in deference to Victorian decorum: the primmer suburban class was deterred by "ruddy" - considered a cuss word close to the obscenity of "bloody" - so Ruddygore became Ruddigore, under which name it went on to achieve a solidly profitable run of 288 performances.
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The bloody blankets that covered them were removed, like the books they never finished.
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I stumbled forward to cover the bloody slashes on my back.
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The losing team left the field bloody but unbowed .
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From bloody coups to tribal and religious strife, that country hardly enjoys more than a few months without bloodletting and political convulsions.
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Running from neck to thigh, the bloody laceration tore his flesh, showing more of his innards than could be wanted.
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Keep that bloody beast of yours away from Scabbers, or I'll turn it into a tea cozy.
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IRAN/IRAQ War erupts - it is to form a bloody backdrop for most of the decade.
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That was followed by a very bloody year and growing insurgent attacks.
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The British footguards had been infected with Methodism and some of the guardsmen gathered for a midnight prayer meeting until a Coldstreamer officer growled at them to give God and himself a bloody rest.
Sharpe's Battle
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Also, equating the simplicity of a facially obvious equipment violation to a man holding a bloody knife is disingenuous.
The Volokh Conspiracy » When a Police Officer Pulls Over a Law Student
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It was beautiful, even if it was bitingly cold and bloody slippery on the roads.
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For an atavistically bloody entertainment, a bullfight includes much traditional pomp and ceremony.
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During that interminable slo-mo edit of England's World Cup qualification the river of molten sentimentality was so ickily glutinous you'd have thought we'd already won the bloody thing.
Frederick william jackson
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Virtually all patients with ulcerative colitis have rectal bleeding or bloody diarrhoea.
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Bloody hell! I've lost my wallet.
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He hadn't seen her appear, it was as if she'd been there all along and he just hadn't noticed, which was simply bloody impossible.
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Like most X-Box scuttlebutt, the various elements of the leaked spec. are tantalisingly plausible - bloody obvious, if you think about it, possibly too obvious - but too vague to draw any real conclusions.
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Then the ghost of Banquo, all gory and bloody comes to haunt Macbeth at the banquet.
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His face was deadly white, a bloody bandage swathed his neck, and his rainproof was soaked with the blood of a sniper's victim.
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Written at the time of the Good Friday agreement, and especially poignant now, in the wake of the conclusion of the Bloody Sunday inquiry, "Sunrise" chews over the disputed names of the towns of Hannon's birth and youth, (London) derry and Enniskillen (aka Inis Ceathlain), before mounting to a moving crescendo: "Who cares where national borders lie?" he croons.
An Evening of Political Song; The Duckworth Lewis Method; Seasick Steve
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They had to swear over this bloody slice of boar's flesh that they would obey the rules of the game and use no unfair means to gain victory.
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No one who goes to a dogfight is a bloody Braveheart.
The Bloomsday Dead
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I am reminded of the politics of the post-bellum era - in which average-to-below-average Republicans in the North could be elected by "waving the bloody shirt," i.e. referencing their seemingly prominent roles in the Civil War to win the support of Northerners.
Republican party
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A bloody affray, which is obscurely related, had occurred in St. Louis between the Secessionists and Federalists.
The Civil War in America
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Love for neighbor, care for justice and for the poor are not only themes of social morality, but especially the expression of a sacramental conception of Christian morality, because, through the ministry of priests the spiritual sacrifice of all the faithful, in union with that of Christ, only Mediator, is fulfilled: a sacrifice which priests offer in an unbloody and sacramental manner, in expectation of the future coming of the Lord.
Archive 2009-07-01
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Instead she opts for milk, water, juice or iced tea. She doesn't drink alcohol much anymore, but says that throughout her life she occasionally had a glass of wine or a Bloody Mary.
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The bellowing from the animals as they fought their bloody battle was incredible.
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A good story of more recent date, I must also note, of a well-known priest in Dublin, who being asked by Mr. Balfour one day whether the people under his charge took for gospel all the rawhead and bloody-bones tales about himself, replied, "Indeed, I wish they only feared and hated the devil half as much as they do you!
Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)
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A second and darker narrative thread follows a Tonkinese woman known as Bloody Mary who, when not selling shrunken human heads to sailors, offers her nubile daughter to a Marine for trysts on Bali-ha’i.
2008 August 07 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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And switch off the bloody porn before Conroy unplugs you.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Brief note from Der Bünker.
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It's bloody cold and I get stuck holding Lucy who's already been celebrating quite hard.
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DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe and Dali (who lived at the St. Regis during that time period) all drank what is now known as a Bloody Mary but ordered them as Red Snappers, ordering them from
Cracked: All Posts
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The inmates were in wonderment and consternation, and, conduplicated evil! they could make no inquiry for one who lay under the ban of a bloody proscription.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII
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And finally, in the months after the Islamic republic was established, Khomeini's Iran plunged into bloody violence between competing factions.
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Amateur video posted online showed bloody, presumably dead individuals in civilian garb.
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Excuse my French, but he's a bloody nuisance!
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Military reinforcements had to engage in bloody street fighting in order to restore government authority.
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He then answers his own question with a vicious sideways slash that drops the bloody-nosed gumshoe to the ground while the entire audience winces in sympathetic pain.
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My first tastes of venison were much like Douglas 'mom, from deer that were killed on dog drives, gut shot, hauled around in pickups then, to paraphrase Tom Kelly, haggled into unidentifiable hunks of bloody gristle by a succession of drunks with rusty saws and hatchets.
Beef or Venison: Which Tastes Better?
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A bloody battle was now certain to take place, and mynheer, combining discretion with valor, took in his light sails, and got his ship into a condition to be easily handled ..
Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
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If you'll pardon my French, he's a complete bloody fool.
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We ran crab traps and trotlines in the bay with our fathers, baited crawfish nets with bloody chunks of nutria meat, cleaned boxes of mudcat with knife and pliers, and never thought of it as work.
Heaven’s Prisoners
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the Americans fought a bloody war to prove that their nation is not divisible
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Phryne on the walls of Thebes, Phryne fecit; this causeth so many bloody battles, — Et noctes cogit vigilare serenas; and induces us to watch during calm nights.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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'bloody shirt' is only a kind of Pickwickian battle cry.
Marse Henry : an autobiography,
