What is "bloodstained"

Usage examples of "bloodstained".

Bristol nor I could conceive of any one seeking to possess the bloodstained thing except the mysterious leader of the Hashishin - Hassan of Aleppo - as a creature of that awful fanatic being I had written her down.

Clicking its foam-soaked fangs in hate and leaving a bloodstained path of vitals in its wake, the archfiend approached the Thangarian again.

The walls were covered with bullfighting posters and a few of his own paintings, but pride of place was given to a bloodstained bullfighting cape that was cut into spokelike shadows by the bright wheel lamp that hung between the beams of the ceiling.

The chilly breeze stirred up the straw in the nests of the hags, whined through the new skulls, gleaming in niches, white against the dark gray granite, made the thin human skins curing upon the walls and the bloodstained piles of human clothing flap weakly.

He was lying on the floor, and expected to see the bloodstained hems of white robes, the trampling feet of the mob.

The cries of pain and bloodstained clothing of his adversaries made him grateful for the techniques gleaned from his associates in La Justicia, as infallible on the Circle of the Master as in all-out, hand-to-hand combat.

In a couple of minutes, the ten Turanians lay in pools of blood, though eight silent figures in bloodstained khalats bore witness to the ferocity of the defense.

First grabbing himself, dal Nardo cursed and waved a bloodstained hand.

His wife stood at the slopstone with the shard of a broken tea saucer in one hand, and in the other a bloodstained handkerchief that she had pressed to her mouth to stifle the wet, chest-tearing coughs that were killing her.

One woman carried an iron frying pan whose bloodstained undersurface proclaimed successful use.

At this threat his tears and supplications began over again and with renewed force, and telling me that he was in utter poverty he emptied his pockets one after the other to shew me that he had no money, and at last offered me the bloodstained badge of his uncle.

Bruised somewhat, covered with bloodstained bandages, the giant was clinging to the edge of the pit, peering out as if on guard.

The captains thought of their youth, of war, of the groaning men who lay dying, of the women mourning, of the horses whinnying and standing on the field, bloodstained and riderless.

Caught up in its inspiring account of conquest and glory, the young boy flipped the pages eagerly, temporarily abandoning modern-day Chandigarh for the bloodstained battlefields of ancient Greece and Persia.

Ultimately, however, the poor man was convicted on the massive weight of evidence that had been collected, evidence that purported to show how, in a fit of sexual psychopathy, he had stolen into the Penfield house, had abused the woman and both children, had cold-bloodedly hacked them to pieces, and then had disposed of their remains in a superheated furnace fueled by oil-soaked coal. Bloodstained underwear belonging to the children and to Mrs.