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Example sentences for "ensanguined"

Lexicographically close words:
enrolments; enroute; ens; ensample; ensamples; ensconce; ensconced; enseigne; enseignement; enseignes
  1. He still held in his sinewy hand the ensanguined poniard, and with the savage laugh of a fiend exulted over his deed.

  2. The road ran red, ensanguined by his brand, And scarce capacious of the many slain.

  3. LXXXV He ceased not his ensanguined blade to sway Till living wight remained not in his view.

  4. Bess, noticing for the first time the ensanguined condition of the infant's attire.

  5. Juno saw, and mad with malice, Lost the prize that Paris gave: Jealousy's ensanguined chalice Mantling pours the orient wave.

  6. Harley McLeod did fairly well at right end until he gave way to Billy Crocker, and Jimmy played at right half during a brief and glorious third quarter and retired with a bruised and ensanguined nose.

  7. Resolved to die, 530 He fears no more, but rushes on his foes, And deals his deaths around; beneath his feet These grovelling lie, those by his antlers gored Defile the ensanguined plain.

  8. An instant after the mulatto mate threw up his arms--a fearful shriek was heard, and he disappeared beneath the water, an ensanguined circle on the surface marking the spot where he had gone down.

  9. The sun, casting a blood-red hue on the water, was just sinking behind a dark mound of vapour to the west, while in the east vast masses of ensanguined clouds floated slowly across the sky.

  10. They saw the vast ensanguined scroll Across the stars the streamers roll: The Derwent stain'd with crimson dyes: And portents wandering through the skies.

  11. It was affirmed that the "Divel's Water" acquired a crimson hue, as if his fair domains were sprinkled with the blood of their gallant possessor; and that at night the sky glowed ominously with ensanguined streams.

  12. Him neither rocks can crush, nor steel can wound, Whom Ajax fells not on the ensanguined ground.

  13. So warr’d both armies on the ensanguined shore, While the black vessels smoked with human gore.

  14. Bravely were they met by their Pagan foes, who, with valour worthy of a better cause, charged in return, and many on both sides sunk on the ensanguined plain never to rise again.

  15. The heads of numbers rolled upon the snow, which for miles round was ensanguined with their blood.

  16. Three more then came on; but standing on the bodies of the prostrate steeds, he with one stroke of his falchion severed their heads from their bodies, which rolled over in the ensanguined dust.

  17. Not in the dire, ensanguined front of war, 609.

  18. Don Pedro's orientalism was particularly perceptible in the mode of many of the executions that ensanguined his reign.

  19. Here belted knights, with cross on breast, In days of old were wont to rest, And 'neath the ilex hedges tall Oft paced the subtle Cardinal, His robe upon the pavement cool Mantling like some ensanguined pool.

  20. Made bare his branded and ensanguined brow, Which was like Cain's or Christ's.

  21. Urania asked the name of this last Shepherd: he then made bare his branded and ensanguined brow, which was like Cain's or Christ's.

  22. All the middle ages had been disturbed and ensanguined by the quarrel, till at last the silent multitude weary of vexations and misery spoke out; threw off the papal yoke at the Reformation, and later on began to overthrow its kings.

  23. We may conquer him on the ensanguined field, but he conquers us--or Henry of England!

  24. A stricken procession it seemed as it drew near, the faces of the women white with fear; the gay attire and gorgeous trappings--a mockery on that ensanguined arena.

  25. The laugh put heart into me, but I still held the bridle with an ensanguined hand close beside the little smeared one; and so, followed by as fine an escort as a princess could desire, we came to my door side by side.

  26. When the sun with an ensanguined glow shot upward from the ocean, his beams glanced on a dark object which lay ahead.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ensanguined" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bloody; gory; sanguinary; sanguine