Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of the wind-poppy, Papaver heterophyllum crassifolium, bearing many small red flowers: found in California.
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Examples
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Our teardrops, blood-drops, were transcendent, our sexual fluids doors to new realities.
Gretel by Firelight, Part I Roberta Lawson 2011
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Roll blood-drops with the tears they whilome rolled:
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Conan, shaking the blood-drops from his eyes, stared frozen.
Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006
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The woods were silent again, and that meant they were racing after him, marking his path by the betraying blood-drops he could not check.
The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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The woods were silent again, and that meant they were racing after him, marking his path by the betraying blood-drops he could not check.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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At the Cathedral gate was a papier-mache church-ornament shop — most of the carvings and reliefs of the same dismal character: one, for instance, represented a heart with a great gash in it, and a double row of large blood-drops dribbling from it; nails and a knife were thrust into the heart; round the whole was a crown of thorns.
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The candle went out, quenched by the falling blood-drops.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Conan, shaking the blood-drops from his eyes, stared frozen.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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Conan, shaking the blood-drops from his eyes, stared frozen.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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A few poppies here and there among the wild rye floated scarlet in sunshine like blood-drops on green water.
The Trespasser 2003
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