The French government bided its time, and Bigot tightened his vampire suckers on thelifeblood of the dying nation.
With the yells of devils jealous of losing their prey, they ripped off his scalp while he was still alive, tore his heart from his breast, and drank the warm lifeblood of the priest.
He quickly realized that the monopolists {58} were sucking the lifeblood of the colony in furs and were giving nothing in return to the country.
And I trod down the peoples in Mine anger, and made them drunk in My fury, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth" (vv.
My pleasure grounds are my lifeblood you might say; and you knew it.
Whose lifeblood seems his follies to repay; And who the youth, that from the combat lost Springs up and saves the remnant of his host?
From private persons, acting in private, and dominated in the main by private motives there cannot be expected the wisest and broadest direction of the flow of money--the lifeblood of business.
A handful of men, responsible to no one but themselves and God, have become masters of the lifeblood of commerce and industry.
She bathed his wrists, and washed his wounds, tearing strips from her skirt to bandage the horrid gash upon his breast in an effort to stanch the flow of lifeblood that welled forth with the man's every breath.
More, it is vital to the preservation of many of our own industries which contribute so notably to the very lifeblood of our Nation.
Mary, good-bye," And thelifeblood is ebbing and plashing.
In their veins flows lifeblood that may be let as easily as ours, and the fact that they remain invisible to us is the best proof to my mind that they are mortal; nor overly courageous mortals at that.
Once I felt the great weight of one of the monsters upon my back and as keen talons sank into my flesh I experienced the frightful sensation of moist lips sucking the lifeblood from the wounds to which the claws still clung.
Patient the sickening victim eyed The lifeblood ebb in crimson tide, Down his clogg'd beard and shaggy limb, Till darkness glazed his eyeballs dim.
She left the royal hounds midway, And dashing on the antler'd prey, Sunk her sharp muzzle in his flank, And deep the flowing lifeblood drank.
You see, the flow of credit is the lifeblood of our economy.
I believe a thriving private sector is the lifeblood of our economy.
Unnumbered were the arrows sent From the great bow which Ráma bent, And every shaft with iron head The lifeblood of a giant shed.
Let me drink Their lifeblood as to earth they sink.
These men, this cursed woman slay, And hasten back without delay, That this my sister’s lips may be Red with the lifeblood of the three.
And she, my sister, she for whom These sons of Raghu meet their doom, She with delighted lips shall drain The lifeblood of her foemen slain.
Then by the sage Vaśishṭha led The priest begun to speed Those glorious rites wherein is shed The lifeblood of the steed.
She loved with fairest chains to deck, The cruel demons rend, and drain The lifeblood from each mangled vein.
Where slavery has become the lifeblood of all wealth.
Now I find your Profession has been to defraud the English crown, to which you should be on your knees in Reverence, and to injure the cause of honest Merchants, who are the lifeblood of this Christian nation.
A sound economy is the lifeblood of a commercial nation.
Justice to our creditors demands that it should be a legal tender; it will then circulate all over the country, and it will be the lifebloodof the whole business of the country, and it will enable capitalists to buy your bonds.
So speaks he, and takes the sword in his throat unfalteringly, and the lifeblood spreads in a wave over his armour.
Five circles they cover at full speed, and unwind as many this way and that; for not light nor slight is the prize they seek, but Turnus' very lifeblood is at issue.
Nicaraguan freedom fighters have never asked us to wage their battle, but I will fight any effort to shut off their lifeblood and consign them to death, defeat, or a life without freedom.
Because this sector of the economy is the very lifeblood of our National economy, we have done much together to improve the competitive climate for smaller firms.
At the same time it must not be forgotten that our railways are the arteries through which the commercial lifeblood of this Nation flows.
Yet viper-stricken must her lifeblood feel The fang that stung her sleeping, the foul germ Even when she wakes of hell's most poisonous worm, Though now it writhe beneath her wounded heel.
For the foe had crossed from the other side That day, in the face of a murderous fire That swept them down in its terrible ire; And their lifeblood went to color the tide.
I trod down the peoples in my anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.
