ensanguine
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of ensanguine
Example Sentences
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But in the attempt to incarnate and ensanguine it I failed wretchedly.
From Seven Men by Sir Max Beerbohm
His eyelids were inflamed, and but served to ensanguine the bitter and cold-blazing intensity of the pupils.
From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London
The old Academy also numbered among its votaries Varro, the most learned of the Romans, and Brutus, who was destined to perform so tragic a part on the ensanguined stage of his country.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by John Dunlop
Not to the ensanguined field of death alone Is valor limited.
From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by J. (Jesse) Clement
Walpole's advice prevailed, and the boy prince fleshed his maiden sword without giving occasion to George the Second to seek the ensanguined laurels for which he told Walpole he had long been thirsting.
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by Justin McCarthy
His nerves, shattered by the tremendous strain of the year, the fevers, the disillusions, the unprofitable shiftings of standpoint, painted the prospect as black as they had formerly ensanguined it.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
"But what's been done?—let us hear," said Huckaback, as he passed a wet towel to and fro over his ensanguined features.
From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren
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