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  • In a town where the law is kill or be killed, die or die later, he is always watching, always waiting for his chance, and revealing himself only in the final reel, with the City of So-Called Angels spreading below him like a still-warm bloodslick.

    The 2007 Hollywood Portfolio: Killers Kill, Dead Men Die 2007

  • In a town where the law is kill or be killed, die or die later, he is always watching, always waiting for his chance, and revealing himself only in the final reel, with the City of So-Called Angels spreading below him like a still-warm bloodslick.

    The 2007 Hollywood Portfolio: Killers Kill, Dead Men Die 2007

  • Before I could stop her, she popped the bloodslick pellet into her mouth and swallowed it.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • He only understood that these bloodslick stones must be fought for and that the Marines were fighting like men possessed, overbearing the enemy with a ferocity and confidence that put terror into the French who had to fight them.

    Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

  • There were bloodslick patches on his abdomen and chest, from bullet or fragment wounds, and an ugly exit wound through his mouth.

    1968 Haldeman, Joe & Fields, Trinity 1984

  • There was a lot of bloodslick on the ground, and small bits of flesh, a length of vertebrae, most of a hand with a gold ring.

    1968 Haldeman, Joe & Fields, Trinity 1984

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