life's-blood

The Durham of today was only in the making and these three men had come to put into the process their own life's-blood and sweat.

John Merrick. A Biographical Sketch Robert McCants 1920

` ` My master, '' replied Gurth, ` ` will take nought from the Templar save his life's-blood.

Ivanhoe 1892

Page view page image: though we would not have it otherwise — we could not bear that one of them should hesitate to give his life's-blood to his country — yet it is heart-breaking to think of what may happen.

Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War 1868

At the dread thought, that here its life's-blood soon

Poems, 1799 Robert Southey 1808

Yet the barbed arrow is in my heart -- I can neither endure it, nor draw it out; for with it flows my life's-blood.

Liber Amoris, or, the New Pygmalion William Hazlitt 1804

The woman was no fool, that is, she was superior to her class; nor had misery quite petrified the life's-blood of humanity, to which reflections on our own misfortunes only give a more orderly course.

Maria, or, The Wrongs of Woman 1799

The woman was no fool, that is, she was superior to her class; nor had misery quite petrified the life's-blood of humanity, to which reflections on our own misfortunes only give a more orderly course.

Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman 1798

The woman was no fool, that is, she was superior to her class; nor had misery quite petrified the life's-blood of humanity, to which reflections on our own misfortunes only give a more orderly course.

Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft 1778

The woman was no fool, that is, she was superior to her class; nor had misery quite petrified the life's-blood of humanity, to which reflections on our own misfortunes only give a more orderly course.

Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft 1778

Can't you just feel our life's-blood slipping away?

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