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  • A cheap cotton shirt, with frayed collar and a bosom discoloured with what I took to be ancient blood-stains, was put on me amid a running and apologetic fire of comment.

    Chapter 2 2010

  • There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from the same source.

    Sole Music 2010

  • Our world is saturated with the blood-stains of millions of people who have been victimized by war.

    Stains 2008

  • A number of people have would probably agree, that although he repented, George Wallace went to his grave with the blood-stains on his lips from his speaking out in the early 1960's.

    Judge Moore Spreads The Love-On Hate 2007

  • I went back to the place by the fire where the bodies had fallen and kicked the sand until all the brown blood-stains were absorbed and hidden.

    The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006

  • Wherever it was, there is a blood-stain in the pavement which our Granadan guide failed to show us, possibly from a patriotic pique that there are no blood-stains in the Alhambra with personal associations.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • A child might have followed the track of the wounded man, the blood-stains left in his passage were so frequent and so distinct.

    The Honor of the Name �mile Gaboriau 2003

  • She took it, wincing slightly at the blood-stains upon it, feeling a hint of the dynamic strength that lurked in the barbarian's thews.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • She took it, wincing slightly at the blood-stains upon it, feeling a hint of the dynamic strength that lurked in the barbarian's thews.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • This circumstance, taken in connection with the broken rope and the blood-stains, made Martial tremble.

    The Honor of the Name �mile Gaboriau 2003

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