The war was sickeningly sanguinary. From LearnThat.org.
This bitter and sanguinary war. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a sanguinary struggle. From Dictionary.com.
April morning to recall the sanguinary history of the Glen. From Wordnik.com. [Nonsense Novels] Reference
"It is the minimum," replied the sanguinary beard. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The battle of the 9th was desperate and sanguinary. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
His air was fierce, his step oblique, his look sanguinary. From Wordnik.com. [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference
One of the most sanguinary contests of the day now took place. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
But politics is the art of turning the sanguinary into the sanguine. From Wordnik.com. [Don’t Call Me—I May Call You] Reference
Every rood of that fair valley was trodden by the wily and sanguinary foe. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
It was all one to the camera men -- a parlor drama or a sanguinary conflict. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays Or, The Sham Battles at Oak Farm] Reference
Yet fighting up the peninsula would grind on for another 11 sanguinary months. From Wordnik.com. [How America Learned To Liberate] Reference
It was of short duration, but, considering the numbers engaged, was sanguinary. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
It has been cursed with expensive and unstable governments and sanguinary wars. From Wordnik.com. [Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)] Reference
We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Tenth were up, pouring in musketry, and receiving it in a fashion hardly less sanguinary. From Wordnik.com. [The Brigade Commander] Reference
Commissioners were so costly, and the dear cattle were having an unusually sanguinary Bull Run. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
The sanguinary diversions of revolution will then be for you the same as a love-affair at twenty. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The defence set up for Mohammad is not equally availing of every sanguinary and revengeful tyrant. From Wordnik.com. [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference
But the only one of these sanguinary sultanas on whom Mergy bestows a thought, is not to be found. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Rhetta had fled from Ascalon that morning, following the terrible night of Morgan's sanguinary baptism. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
One would have taken them for those vestals whom antiquity invited to the sanguinary shows of the gladiators. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The memory of this sanguinary action will be treasured by all participants and observers as long as they live. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of Bayan and Other Battles] Reference
We fought none the less desperately on that account, and in the sanguinary conflict all my companions were slain. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
Having routed the enemy in Tchar and Zadar we gave him, after heroic and sanguinary battles, the biggest blow of all. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
Seemingly misplaced in a sanguinary sea, passionless it lay, but as the ocean of light grew dull the crescent kindled. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Men were too valuable to be destroyed beyond the requirements of warfare or the demands of sanguinary religious customs. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
She saw a woman with grander passions than herself; a woman that looked quite capable of executing her sanguinary threat. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
These sanguinary deeds were diversified by various attempts at arson -- the latest, with aid of gunpowder, being successful. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Even if a sanguinary and revengeful tyrant were to do so in his own behalf, he would be quite justified in this particular act. From Wordnik.com. [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference
From this latter sanguinary measure, which a Cabrera or a Valmaseda would probably not have hesitated to adopt, Zumalacarregui abstained. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
Oglethorpe had but a small body of troops, chiefly Scotch Highlanders, but by courage and strategy he inflicted a sanguinary defeat on the. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
It was a most undignified way for a man of his sanguinary reputation to accept this humiliation at the hands of a public that he had outraged. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
With such sanguinary fierceness of disposition and extraordinary tenacity of life, it is no wonder the grizzly bear is a creature to be dreaded. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
During a whole generation which followed after the close of the gigantic and sanguinary conflict between the Northern and Southern States of the American. From Wordnik.com. [From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington] Reference
This supposed testimony has precipitated wordy wars as terrible, though perhaps less sanguinary, as those which were engaged in by the gods and heroes themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
A scalp-wound on Mr. Grimley's forehead had bled profusely upon both, imparting a sad and sanguinary cast to the countenances turned toward those who came to their assistance. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
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