“It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.”

“The case was that of a murder ⟳. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.”

“An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.”

“a friend of our own ⟳ blood”

“to share ⟳ the blood of Saxon royalty”

“TASHA: The captain wants those two taken into custody. // KORRIS: Do not let ⟳ them take ⟳ us, Worf. Help ⟳ us. // KONMEL: Listen ⟳ to the voice of your blood. You are not "of" these people.”

“When I got Bilbo to their surgery the vet took Bilbo in for tests. […] His bloods showed nothing wrong at all.”

“It is no tautology to call ⟳ the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."”

“Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin ⟳ to develop ⟳ on the cane. It diverts the flow ⟳ of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]”

“Look ⟳ at a leaf. On it are many little raised lines which reach ⟳ out to all parts of the leaf and back to the stem and twig. These are "veins," full of the tree's blood. It is white and looks very much like ⟳ water; [...]”

“He washed[…]his clothes in the blood of grapes.”

“When thou perceive his blood inclined to mirth”

“Hath Cassius liu'd / To be but Mirth and Laughter to his Brutus, / When greefe and blood ill temper'd, vexeth him?”

“There was some little undefinable coolness between old General Chattesworth and Devereux. He admired the young fellow, and he liked good blood in his corps, but somehow he was glad when he thought he was likely to go. When old Bligh, of the Magazine, commended the handsome young dog's good looks, the general would grow ⟳ grave all at once […]”

“Seest thou not[…]how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?”

“[…] it was the morning costume of a dandy or blood of those days […]”

“They came looking for blood.”

“Our Father’s Death Would fill ⟳ up all the Guilt of Civil War, And cloſe the Scene of Blood.”

“Under Henry III. Amboise ceased to be a slaughter-house, as in the preceding reign, but it remained a sort ⟳ of state prison. It is related that Anne d'Este of Ferrara, wife of Duc de Guise, while assisting once at a series of executions out of the windows of the castle with Catherine de Medicis, suddenly overcome ⟳ by the horror of the spectacle, turned away, exclaiming passionately, "Ah Madame! how all this blood calls out for blood! what vengeance is being prepared! May God have ⟳ pity on your sons and on mine!"”

“He watched out for the men in his unit, for the one woman who had saved them so many years ago when they were still raw teens out for blood and revenge on the world, and he watched out for anyone else they stumbled across in their lives that needed protection.”

“The standard assessment suggests that as the munera became purely a spectacle, they became more murderous because the public wanted to see ⟳ blood. That the people of Rome were able to indulge this degenerate desire was merely due to the degraded status of the professional gladiator.”

“Blood I swear ⟳ she just gave man extra chicken? Two fat pieces of chicken.”

“My union with the neighborhood kids teaches me Bloods don't say ⟳ or write ⟳ words starting with c's. This is how Bloods disrespect Crips. They replace ⟳ all c's with k's or b's and cross out all remaining c's in the word.”

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