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 Beerbohm, Max, Sir
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 London, Jack
"But the name gives such an ensanguined suggestion," she objected.
From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles
From 'midst these walls, whose ruins spread around, And scattered clods that heap the ensanguined ground, Three thousand souls of warriors, dead in fight, To better regions took their happy flight.
From Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
When the sun with an ensanguined glow shot upward from the ocean, his beams glanced on a dark object which lay ahead.
From Jack Buntline by Kingston, William Henry Giles
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 Clement, J. (Jesse)
Where'er they looked the ensanguined plain Was strewn with myriads of the slain;990 They sought with keenly searching eyes King Jámbaván supremely wise.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
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