blood-drop

For a long while, Wren sat quietly, poised as if she were a blood-drop on the point of a dagger.

La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

But as they adjusted, he could make out the very dimmest of cloudy red above him, and blood-drop sparks where satellite meteors caught sunlight.

Agent Of The Terran Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1965

Each trickling blood-drop shall, with sudden power

Poems of the Heart and Home J. C. Yule

He put the blood-drop on a slide and inserted it at one side of a comparison microscope, nodding.

Police Operation H. Beam Piper 1934

And here, in a virtue pushed to the confines of vice, in the man's blind unintentional neglect of the woman for whom he would wring the last blood-drop out of his heart, you have the nucleus of more than half the pitiful domestic tragedies of India.

The Great Amulet Maud Diver 1906

Commissioner Irvine knew he could depend upon them to see through to a finish, to their last ounce of strength and their last blood-drop, any bit of work given them to do.

The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail Ralph Connor 1898

The man who took his enemy's last blood-drop with relentless hate, gave his own blood with an equally unsparing hand if in so doing he might aid the cause of some sworn brother.

The Thrall of Leif the Lucky 1893

"Mike" -- apples of Franklin, Connecticut, which are sweet, red of skin, snowy of pulp, and have a red spot, like a blood-drop, near the core; hence they are sometimes known as bloody-hearts.

Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 04 : Tales of Puritan Land 1879

A tear the Paphian sheds for each blood-drop of Adonis, and tears and blood on the earth are turned to flowers.

Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878

Every painful footfall that she made was the patter of a blood-drop.

Bohemian Days Three American Tales George Alfred Townsend 1877