sanguineous

• After eleven years of the Germanic Jochum, the BRSO was taken over by the lyrical, sanguineous Czech conductor Rafael Kubelik.
• He was a big Norman, one of those powerful, sanguineous, bony men, who lift wagon-loads of apples on their shoulders. —  The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) Une Vie and Other Stories
• The first five groups were classed together as sanguineous, the others as exsanguineous, from the presence or absence of red blood Besides these classes "there are," he says, "many other creatures in the sea which it is not possible to arrange in any class from their scarcity" (Creswell, loc. —  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
• The similar parts are divided into the sanguineous or rich in blood and the spermatic. —  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
• And the climbing roses, the tall cluster roses with their showers of white flowers, clothed all these others with the lacework of their bunches, the innocence of their flimsy muslin; while, here and there, roses dark as the lees of wine, sanguineous, almost black, showed amidst the bridal purity like passion's wounds. —  La faute de l'Abbe Mouret

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