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  • I had my foot on the runner, and he was just chuckling to the horses, when it came again - that bloodchilling wail, far closer this time, and off to the left.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • A bloodchilling arsenal of pistols, shotguns, and rifles follows -- star items in a gun-culture where bullets kill thousands every year.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • The most bloodchilling sound she had ever heard rose above the sepulchral silence of the cemetery.

    Where There's Smoke Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1994

  • Mokkeh was the lady's nickname (it is Yiddish for plague or pestilence) and suggested the bloodchilling imprecations she could toss off with spectacular fluency.

    Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991

  • Mokkeh was the lady's nickname (it is Yiddish for plague or pestilence) and suggested the bloodchilling imprecations she could toss off with spectacular fluency.

    Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991

  • None of them was friendly; two were oversized, and the undersized one had a fairly bloodchilling record for anyone on the wrong side of law and order.

    Legacy James H. Schmitz 1946

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