heart's-blood

Many a white camisole was stained with the red heart's-blood of its wearer; fifty men fell dead upon the spot, eighty were wounded, and a crowd of others sprang into the Norderström, or sought to fly.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

That conviction regards not merely solemn and public celebrations of reverential memory -- such as this; it pervades the tenor of our daily life, runs in our heart's-blood, sits at our hearths, wings our loftiest dreams of human exaltation.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

Love-letters of the passing year, she called them; songs dyed with the autumn's heart's-blood of regret that he must yield the sweet, warm earth to his gray rival, winter.

The Dragon Painter Mary McNeil Fenollosa

Unstained by wasteful deformities, by wasted tears or heart's-blood of men, or any defacement of the Pit, noble, fruitful

Queen Victoria E. Gordon Browne

Huskisson -- have many a time poured forth the floods of their eloquence, stirring up the heart's-blood of the thousands assembled in the street to hear them, making pulses beat quicker, and exciting passions to fever-heat.

Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian

By the light of the Queen Moon, now at her full in heaven, he saw that the orchard grass was clipped, and patterned with small clover, but against the hedges rose wild banks of meadowsweet and yarrow and the jolly ragwort, and briony with its heart-shaped leaf and berry as red as heart's-blood made a bower above them all.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

By the light of the Queen Moon, now at her full in heaven, he saw that the orchard grass was clipped, and patterned with small clover, but against the hedges rose wild banks of meadow-sweet and yarrow and the jolly ragwort, and briony with its heart-shaped leaf and berry as red as heart's-blood made a bower above them all.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Eleanor Farjeon 1923

By the light of the Queen Moon, now at her full in heaven, he saw that the orchard grass was clipped, and patterned with small clover, but against the hedges rose wild banks of meadowsweet and yarrow and the jolly ragwort, and briony with its heart-shaped leaf and berry as red as heart's-blood made a bower above them all.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1921

Never a word that the blood on his sword was his country's own heart's-blood.

On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines 1919

Red the heart's-blood tinged each pike in Glen Moylena.

The Four Winds of Eirinn 1906