He was shielding me from the poison in my blood. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“How did he get covered in blood?” asked Seamus with great interest. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Because when it comes to Alyssa and Garrett’s parents, the truth is, between all the spilled blood and all the spilled water, they could be anywhere right now. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“But I’ve said enough! At any rate, I’ll let you work out who gets the gorgon’s blood. I suppose that newcomer Percy could use it too, with his memory problem.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His hands were skinned; he was licking blood out of his mouth. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were told not to “mix their blood” by marrying non-Aryans. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Men fish the sea, dig in the earth, and die. Women birth children in blood and pain, and die. Night follows day. The winds and tides remain. The islands are as our god made them." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Probably a social studies teacher, hired to coach a blood sport. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had jumped to the conclusion that the blood had come from a wounded knight—otherwise why should she have insisted on having them in the antechamber? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held up one hand and stared at the red scratches on it, which oozed drops of blood. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His blood shall water the stones of Mount Olympus and wake Earth Mother!’” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In one day, the blood travels a total of twelve thousand miles. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He dropped dead of blood poisoning less than a year ago and the boy was only twelve years old.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He guided me through his beautiful house and I remember trying to stay away from the walls so I wouldn’t get blood on them. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He wraps his hand in the dish rag and tells Mam, Quick, quick, wipe the blood off the Pope before it dries. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as the moon finishes passing the sun, my blood rushes into my ears and my palms dampen with sweat. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It reminded Selmy of the first blood welling from a wound. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Bleeding profusely and cut off from his supply of eagles’ blood, he had never been closer to death. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I stood recalling how, in my boyhood, I would have fought until blood ran had anyone said anything like that to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there is to be a battle, the blood of my blood should be with me. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone is obsessed with blood, with who your parents are, your grandparents—fractions of fractions. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had his arm draped around her shoulders, and my blood ran cold. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shut the door and leaned back against it, feeling the blood drain from my face in one spectacular flush. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The two boys cried out in delight and horror, “And see the blood streaming out of his side!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She is lying in a pool of blood. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If they want my blood, let them come for it,” she’d laughed. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He went with slow, reluctant steps up the slope to the mausoleum, avoiding the still-damp blood, and opened the door. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

All that was left of her own blood was Hodor, the simpleminded giant who worked in the stables, but Old Nan just lived on and on, doing her needlework and telling her stories. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Already, she’d told us there are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in a single human body, enough to circle Earth two and a half times. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Instead of blood pouring from his wound, red moths stream out, into the air. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Biter was flinging himself against the chains, blood running down his arms from where the irons clasped his wrists. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A metallic taste in your mouth, like blood. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

His expression, as well as his words, seemed to belong to a much older man, a man whose hot blood had cooled, who was at peace. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

What if the Americans, and the Belgians before them, hadn’t tasted blood and money in Africa? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hand massages my stinging cheek; I taste blood in my mouth. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Looks like you lost some blood in the war yourself.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Your heart bleeds into itself; the heart muscle softens and has hemorrhages into its chambers, and blood squeezes out of the heart muscle as the heart beats, and it floods the chest cavity. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drops of blood from his fingers dripped down the fence from wire to wire and fell on the ground. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or in desperation, sell some blood at one of the store fronts down the street from the agency. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Rose’s clothes got splattered with Anna’s blood, the story went, so she took them off and discarded them in the creek. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

For a second I feel like everything inside me is breaking, and I crouch by a body, breathing through my mouth so I don’t smell the blood. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Would it be any less cruel to let those two German divisions down to fight with our troops? American lives are at stake, too, you know. Would you rather see American blood spilled?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He thrust it into the earth to clean it of the foul thing’s blood and then rinsed it in the stream. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her senses were still sharp enough that she could smell the coppery scent of the Suli girl’s blood beneath the cleaner Rotty had used to remove it from the wood. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to write TK, shorthand for tourniquet, on her forehead in Sharpie ink, along with the time I’d tied off the blood flow to the injured limb. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there was the blood from “Mr. Green,” the local abattoir on First Avenue. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined Sookie’s blood vessels popping when he heard the news. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

And then I feel something wet on me and I look down and the blood’s coming so fast now, it’s leaked over to where I’m sitting. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds so hard that, despite the roaring of the crowd, I am aware of blood whooshing through my ears. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Often, even with a deep cut, the blood came before the pain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’s cut himself shaving: there’s blood on his cheek and on his collar. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the day had passed very long and lonely and his blood was full and coursing under his skin. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Coach O told them to leave everything they had on the mat—blood, sweat, all of it—and Luke treated it like gospel. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She was given a new dress-cloth because the old one was torn and foul with dog blood. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blood and lips and hair and face turned to one side and blood running slowly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The blood left his face and showed up his eyes better. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t say I fancy the idea myself,” said Silver, wiping Holly’s blood out of his nose. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One most of all. A tall and twisted thing with one black eye and ten long arms, sailing on a sea of blood.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Stop it, Mexico!” he yelled, wiping blood from his nose and mouth on his sweatshirt. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Improved blood will better every generation to come. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I wiped the blood on my jeans and shouted, “Don’t throw them here! I’m here!” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Finally he settled on: “It was positively cold blooded.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The anger pulsed through him as if it, instead of blood, thumped out of his heart and through his veins, but even as he stood, he could feel himself calming. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He could see the red-faced man lying on the jail floor with blood oozing out of the corners of his mouth. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

That's the third floor, a laboratory, where the blood samples and medicines will be. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When they move him away, I see splotches of blood on the ground. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

They regulate lots of its functions—filtering blood, producing hormones, helping to control blood pressure, and removing waste from the body. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Who else would make a world like this, so fill of bondage, blood, and pain? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The four boys stared open-mouthed at the wound and the scrap of flesh, like a button mushroom, curling in the cherry blood that ran into the comers of the slate. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He would lay it down on the bleed table, and then Captain Haines, the Green Beret, would insert a needle into the animal’s thigh and draw off a lot of blood into various tubes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She comes back with a damp cloth and wipes my face gently then cleans the blood from a broken plate off my hands. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Of the remaining 38, 20 were of African and 18 of European blood. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He could not stop the flow of blood flooding over his hand. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his flashing spear never missed its stroke and the dreadful sound of cracking skulls was heard and the floor flowed with blood. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set him on a sofa, and made a tourniquet to staunch the blood. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He had to clean the blood out of his eye again. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was crunching, there was blood, there were horrible screams. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Grandpa was so excited I thought he was going to burst a blood vessel. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no blood, no cloud of doll hair burning up in the candle fire. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

She thought she had property rights in the foal, Specklebottom’s blood line being what it was. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hospital staff thought she meant she needed a CT scan or a blood test, but she meant a test for school. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Citra could practically see the blood drain from her mother’s face. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It made me think of things I shouldn’t even know about—blood spilled on an ancient stone altar, the foul breath of a murderer. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

If she couldn’t move her dislocated arm, she was going to fail, because Brooke was dead and her blood was everywhere and Jule had to change clothes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

All his blood drained to the tips of his toes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Not to mention the considerable loss of blood. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The bullet went into the back of her head and exited through the front of her face, and blood sprayed everywhere. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Pax recognized that wind—the story she was about to relate would end with blood on the snow and cold steel jaws. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Jasper was not her responsibility, but the stains of his blood on the wagon and her clothes might as well have represented her own dead. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We don’t know what Lydia Pinkham’s remedies are, but anything that says “for women” on it has to do with monthly blood or some equally unspeakable female thing, and so we think it’s funny. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She felt light-headed as her blood drained from her, making a slight hissing sound when it struck the mixture in the clay pot. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Black blood was flowing from the wound where the spear had pierced him, smoking where it dripped onto the scorched sands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“But now you’ll be chained and transported to Gaea’s minions. They are quite eager to spill your blood and wake the goddess.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Kote straightened up so that he was no longer leaning over the unconscious man and wiped the blood away as best he could, which wasn’t very well, as his hands were covered in blood themselves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had wanted to creep to her and lick the blood off her hand after she had provided him with food, encourage that hand to scratch and stroke him again. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“At the beginning of the year you said the truest thing about a person was whose blood they had in their heart. Do you remember that?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

For example, all the iron in your blood which stops you from being anemic was made in a star. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Every time Scoob hears it, he wants to say: Being criminally minded doesn’t run in the blood either. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He brings home the same dinner in his overcoat pockets, a big steak dripping blood, four potatoes, an onion, a bottle of stout. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was his blood that stained her dress and face and she was glad. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the patients were losing blood fast from their wounds and had to have intravenous blood or plasma to stay alive. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It hits me like a wave, I can feel blood rushing to my face. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no idea how long an ambulance might take, and there was so much blood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

One of my fingernails tore a line of blood across his face from ear to chin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He screamed a blood curdling cry that echoed down the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch the burning head burst, bare of visions, dark blood dripping from the corner of the mouth and ear. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I packed my unwashed combat fatigues and sent them to my family with a note: Dear Parents, Here are my clothes, still stained with the sweat and mud and blood of Bougainville. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pool of blood under her head ran along the cracks in the bathroom tile near where the other woman, Mrs. Barnes, lay on the floor. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The grease and blood roll down his chin and on to the overcoat where he wipes his hands. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

All he could hear were the dogs and the rush of blood through his ears. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the only way to keep his sanity in the midst of Goddard’s blood sport. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Leeches terrified him, especially the big pale ones that looked like jelly until they filled up with blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He got out the blood sausage, fried it up, and set out glasses, plates, knives and forks, and two bottles of wine. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

They bragged often about the binding quality of the Baxter blood. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

McCoy had used Cliff and Ria as a distraction and Miles was laying on the tiled floor in a puddle of his own blood. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

With the infusion of new blood from the previous year’s exceptional freshman boat, he was again faced with the dilemma of having almost too much talent out on the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I had prayed that it would be alive, but the blood had almost stopped flowing. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scream, frustrated, and wipe some of the blood from my ear. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Apart from the blood in my ears and my jagged breathing there was no other sound. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then Encanis grew silent, and the only sound was the hiss of sweat and blood as they fell from the demon’s straining limbs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“He’s catching the blood in a cup now. There must be a half-inch of blood on the bottom.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It smelled like her, and like bonobo, and like blood. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, what Doc Kelly said didn’t make the Danvers hate the Gantrys any less, and that hatred had those boys drawing blood until Mr. Kennel came and yanked them boys apart. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Patricia Webb put some of the black blood droplets into flasks of monkey cells, and pretty soon the cells got sick and began to die—they burst. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Deborah got to her doctor’s office, her blood pressure and blood sugar were so high, her doctor was amazed she hadn’t had a stroke or heart attack while we were in Clover. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Lizzie!”Turner cried, half falling himself until he was beside her, his hands under her head, startled by how quickly they were covered with her blood. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

That is how Amah found me: an apparition covered with blood. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to cry out, shrilly: "You and your blood, Jack Merridew! You and your hunting! We might have gone home." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I look Helena in the face, wiping the blood from her lip with a sleeve, trying not to show her how scared I am. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I specialize in the pathology and therapeutics of the blood,” he said. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Without dragons, how could she hope to hold Meereen, much less win back Westeros? / am the blood of the dragon, she thought. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She’s standing next to the ER nurse, who is drawing blood from my arm. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She wipes the blood from his mouth, reconfirming that it’s not his. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

That is when a blood clot blocks one of the blood vessels taking blood to the muscles in the heart. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The blood now drenched the sheets; his elbow had tipped the bowl so that the blood I had already let also stained his side. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Whitlock spent most of our Biology lesson saying how certain patriotic young men cycled to Worcester hospital to give blood. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Ned had played and lost, and his men had paid the price of his folly with their life's blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Maxy was trying to clean up the mess and calm the class down when Mrs. Jarzab returned with blood on her jacket and pointed at me. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no excitement, no galloping of blood in his neck or his heart at the thought of her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

His brother came sliding through the trees, moving almost as quiet as another brother he remembered dimly from long ago, the white one with the eyes -of blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"You are the blood of the dragon, and the dragon does not fear." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was wearing an ordinary denim uniform with no insignia of any kind and high boots with spurs that were caked with mud and dried blood. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The sight of all the bodies lying around, the smell of blood and puke and urine, made my head spin, pushed me to a different place. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since Galen, it had been thought that the veins and the arteries carried different substances—two kinds of blood. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He winced when Thyon jabbed in his needle, and winced again, because the alchemist missed the spirit vein and hit a blood vessel instead. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When he called her the next day, Gerda told him that she had taken the blood test for the marriage license. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He could hear the blood pounding in his ears. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He lay in the mud on the side of the embankment, his feet pointing downhill, breathing blood irregularly. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The blood was spurting out strong and fast. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The corpse had been removed, but there were still traces of dried blood on the ground. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

"I name you ko, and ask your oath, that you should live and die as blood of my blood, riding at my side to keep me safe from harm." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As I watched him, the water in his eyes was replaced with blood that quickly turned his brown eyes into red. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Streaks of blood surrounded a solitary hole in the center of the ice. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Bodies had begun to pile on top of each other near a short palm tree, where fronds dripped blood. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A trickle of blood ran from the arrow that pierced his arm. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He grew thin and his eyes held the red blood of his body. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The uncle was blood proud and had bequeathed Holmes his estate on condition he first adopt the uncle’s name in full. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I glanced at my finger—no blood yet—but to be on the safe side I kept my hand pressed over my mouth like a window awning. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Step right up to the freak show, make a video with your phone, blog the blood. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Well, they sure as hell do. We figure we’re doing you people a favor to get some white blood in your kids.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His presence silenced, if only for a few seconds, the crackling anxiety that made my blood grate against my bones and for a little while I’d feel melted and soft. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two big men were carrying a limp body in between them, all three splattered with blood. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Bet you can fix a car up too, if you care to. Things like that run in the blood.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The arrow was bright red, as if it had been painted in blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When souls came weeping to the altar he scarce dared to rejoice, remembering that soul who had not bowed, whose blood, it might be, would be required of him at judgment. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

There was blood on his dress whites and his uniform was still damp from the plunge into the swimming pool at the Club. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is resilience in your blood too. The willpower to endure seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Though your ancestors were once slaves, their descendants fought for equal rights.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“There was blood everywhere,” Mom said, “but one kid in the hospital at a time is enough.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I gasp for air and my mouth fills with feathers, feathers down my throat, in my lungs, replacing my blood with dead weight. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Time I get to Wabash I’ve wiped most of the blood from my lip. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

We check the blood levels of certain enzymes periodically in order to make sure that the liver is handling the strain adequately. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wiped blood from my face and ears and neck. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Curses bubbled out of her mouth and blood with it, thick. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the Bruce Banner blood rushing to his face. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

At present, the blood rain’s falling and we’re on the beach below the monkey segment, far too close to the fog for my liking. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she repeated what God told Cain after he killed Abel: “The blood cries out from the ground.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Most of them had blood covering their faces—around the nose, mouth, eyes and ears. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

In the bad parts of Tarbean a call for help attracts predators like the smell of blood on the wind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I wondered when my dream had turned into Cinderella’s ball, but then I realized it was broken glass in their hair, and it wasn’t rouge on their cheeks, it was blood. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were made solid by her binding—substance and matter, if not flesh and blood. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the north. You told me you could be strong. You have the wolf blood in you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“As in droplets of blood bouncing off the well-buffed wood floor of the gym?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Their hair trickles blood and sweat, their clothes drip, their faces red and rigid. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hears you can smell the blood on them from a mile away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But then my scratching hands find it, the memory of my mother’s face, and the strange angles of her limbs on the pavement, and the blood seeping from my father’s body. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They had made blood tests twice and found no indication of damage to the liver. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aw, come on, baby. Get the bubbles out of your blood. We scored. It was perfect.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s like all the blood in his body has rushed up into his face.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The chill touched the blood on his head; his arms and legs were shaking. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The chalkfur Bitter had painted was rustling now, and Jam held back a cry as she saw the small blob of blood vanish into the painting with a quick sucking sound. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Though the heart weighs less than a can of soup, a healthy heart pumps two thousand gallons of blood each day. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m not laughing because it’s funny. I'm laughing out of relief. I thought you’d been beaten up. I thought this was blood. I’m laughing because it’s only berry juice.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s not the same at all. Sloth was crew. She swore blood oath with you. She didn’t have morals. But this swank?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Red clouds hung in the air like vaporized blood. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Got a thirst for blood now that you’ve been in your first fight, do you?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Last time I had been there, I practically had to donate blood to get a candy heart. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the malaria I’ve never shaken off, it’s in my blood. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could already taste the blood in his mouth as he got up. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

But picturing a spurt of wine-red blood and wondering if the ice pick would make him cough didn’t help. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sign is that from which something else is inferred, for example murder from blood. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A tiny smudge of blood came from the place where the blade touched the skin. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Ben drank the Coke and he remembered it glowing in his blood like the moon and, very deliberately, Ben looked into the softest of male eyes and said, “That’s good Coke, Dave.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I draw little windowcracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Scarlet blood joined the sweat on Brokk’s neck, but the dwarf did not stop pumping. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

As the blood reached the site of the breach, the water in it quickly evaporated from the airflow and low pressure, leaving a gunky residue behind. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I stood up and pressed it back in place but the blood sprayed out in a circle like a shower nozzle. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is on the ground, lying in a fetal position on her side, both hands clutching her leg as thin, red blood pours out from a wound above her ankle, staining her skirt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I saw Papa, kneeling on the ground by a man, splashes of blood in the dirt. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I wanted to make sure there wasn’t any blood or anything on the floor. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The world spun, and as it did, she saw blood. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Inside was a black-and-white bull’s horn, the base jagged from being broken off, the tip splattered with dried blood. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He would merely give out the communion with the usual disturbing allusions to eating flesh and drinking blood. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like our old hound dog Babe, except all made of gristle and blood. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the third blow, a glob of blood and mucus and chickpea went flying out and hit the floor in front of Pastor Pike. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The blood dripped onto the front of her white undershirt, making small blots that sank into the cloth, leaving uneven circles. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The blood rushed to Tayo’s head and he felt around the floorboards blindly for the opener. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the chickenyard she caught a little pullet, took it to the block and chopped its head off, and held the writhing neck over the jelly jar until it was half full of blood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It turned his blood cold to even think of closing his eyes in the city. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m a healer. I know the legends about gorgon’s blood. Show me the vials.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Bloody Miles stood at the end of the bed, blue eyes wide and piercing, blood oozing from his freckles. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Another dart hit home in the neck of a man just as he was running past—he screamed and dove forward as blood spurted from the wound. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Her skin was blue, her blood was red. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Stella first poured the cold water on the wound, watching as the oozing blood turned pale pink. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It scrapes his neck so hard that I see blood spray from the impact. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I bit my inner cheek until I tasted my own blood, knowing that any show of grief would exile me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

So I had done battle with the prince who had mixed the blood of his two sons with the metal he had used for casting his swords. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As his horse fell, snorting blood and biting with his last red breath, the Mountain rose untouched, laying about him with his two-handed great- sword. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If one-tenth of all people have a certain blood type, what is the probability that, of the next hundred people we randomly select, exactly eight will have the blood type in question? at most, eight? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’re supposed to wait for leeches to fill with blood and drop away. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a huge lump but not too much blood. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Hsu got home from the conference, she called Day to ask if she could draw blood from his family. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“He is not the Weeping Man, but he is no craven either. If I had asked that of him, it would have come to blood.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The scales under his human skin were wet with blood. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Nick's point had been stopped by the protective plate, and the only blood that had been spilled was that of an unfortunate sheep. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The place where the crow had pecked him was still burning, but there was nothing there, no blood, no wound. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The grip was virgin leather, soft and black, as yet unstained by sweat or blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s like blood,” he said, and made a face. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bone ships swarmed beneath us like sharks smelling blood. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Every time I was with him now, my skin tic-led and my brain buzzed and my blood romped around as if it were percolating. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The bad blood of spring filled us with strange yearnings and tumult, and the boys from Los Jaros split off from the boys from town and there were gang fights. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Magistrate Tiger's most coveted wish was to be of royal blood. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

That we were all flushed and warm with blessed blood. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The air grows heavy with trampled plants, the scent of blood, and the musty stink of the monkeys. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to relax with Hermione next to you reciting the twelve uses of dragon’s blood or practicing wand movements. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Earlier, Cole had felt hollow and weak, as if all the blood had emptied from his body. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It’s believed to rebuild your blood, and we certainly needed rebuilding because you lose a lot of blood during circumcision. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell from here whether she still had a head, but judging from the amount of blood staining the ground around her throat I thought not. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The magical time of childhood stood still, and the pulse of the living earth pressed its mystery into my living blood. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gods of the sept had noth-ing to do with him; the blood of the First Men flowed in the veins of the Starks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She could feel the blood flow down her neck. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I had come to think of the horses as so real that for a moment I was surprised to see blond, splintered wood instead of blood and bone where the legs had been chopped off. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Something in the tone of Early’s voice caused the blood to drain from Truman’s face. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa says that once a lion gets a taste for human blood, it won’t stop until it’s eaten an entire village. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Why am I no longer favored with Jesus’s blood?” she says, regarding her open palms with despair. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The holy blood itself is seen as purifying: purging the evil, the weak and the sinful. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For Muhammad’s kids to go against the family, for my mom to reject her own blood, another conversion has to happen—from sayyed to najis. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The first was that of a white billy goat, its head stained red with blood. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’d wrapped his arm and had used the weight of his body to keep his blood from spilling out. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

If the cracked teeth or blood was bothering him, he didn’t show it. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He bought toys for their children; he once watched a woman use her baby’s bib to sop up the blood of a teenaged drug dealer who was shot to death in front of Venkatesh. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

There was no heat in it, no still-beating heart, no blood. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“But they really found the chickens in the desert without a drop of blood inside. They were blowing around like dry cantaloupe skins.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Turn your head.”The blood started to run down over his left cheek. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I supposed some might have considered me blessed in that I was of high blood. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Hemophilia is caused by a single mutation that disables a protein in the clotting of blood. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I think I should keep moving, to circulate my blood, as you are supposed to do in a snowstorm so you won’t freeze to death. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That tank’s full of diesel fuel. That diesel’s your life’s blood tonight.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was curled on the bed, the sheets streaked with blood. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“He had a series of blood clots in his brain,” Dad says gently. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Butler could actually feel his bones knitting and the blood retreating from semicongealed scabs. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The taste of blood in my mouth was strong and bitter. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But she, for greeting, called from the meeting ground her lord and master, Antiphates, who came to drink their blood. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They give us milk and blood and sometimes meat to eat and hides to wear. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a horse coming down the ridge: great black horse with blood all over the chest, blood streaming through bubbly holes, blood on the saddle, dying eyes, smoke-gray at the muzzle: Garnett’s horse. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had that thrill of expectation in the blood which united us with the course of our days. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom, covered in blood, heard the attackers talk about torching the pile of bodies she lay in, and she managed to remove the bodies on top of her and quietly crawl away. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It’s your blood and ’tis a sad thing when a man can’t even drive a nail straight. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Its white tongue lapped up the droplets of blood that leaked out of the wound. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Some recipe out of blood and dirt dug from the graves. They’re swallowing it.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Tanner opens his mouth and a water balloon worth of blood pours out. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

That’s when they saw the blood pouring from the sides of his mouth, down his cheeks, and into the grass. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My heart quit beating, my blood ran cold, and time stood still! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I stood in shock, blood frozen in my veins. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She might turn it all to blood, smash the domes, send the feather-cloaked children tumbling to their deaths. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

You turned against me, against your own blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They must drink it if they were taking a long trip and couldn’t find any people to get blood from. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sanitary napkins were not available, and the seamstress’ uniforms were sometimes stained with menstrual blood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The fingers, red with her own blood, contorted into an unnatural shape. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

His nonchalance is belied by his split lip, swollen eye, and the blood dotting the front of his waistcoat. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Another turned his cup over to wash away a finger of blood before it reached the place where he was seated. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He pointed it at the starry cage holding the snake, which drifted upward, off Snape, who fell sideways onto the floor, blood gushing from the wounds in his neck. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Pipkin,” he snapped, “why don’t you clean up your face and stop the bleeding? The smell of blood attracts elil. You know that, don’t you?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve scrubbed my toes so hard that little droplets of blood have started to bead between them. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I noticed that she never denied the things Todd had said about the vampires and centipedes and spiders and puddles of blood. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Instantly, I felt the blood rise in my cheeks. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

You wake up and you’ve immediately got a blood pressure gauge around your arm and somebody taking your pulse. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Feeling a stinging on his cheek, Calder wiped off some blood. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I unbutton his shirt and realize the ripped cloth is stiff with blood and sticking. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As his blood oozed into the piranha-infested water, he quickly waded to the river's bank and limped back to the campsite at the foot of the rapids. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Clots are accumulating in his intestinal muscles, cutting off the blood supply to his intestines. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made a little bitter grin as another soak of blood let itself through the drenched padding and started the tedious journey into my shoes. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

"Get up now, that's just a scratch, a little blood never hurt a man." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rush next began experimenting with the amount of blood he would remove from the body in an effort to reduce inflammation. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

It feels like all the blood is draining out of my face. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like pipes his nostrils jetted crimson runnels, a river of mortal red, and one last kick upset his table knocking the bread and meat to soak in dusty blood. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that day there was no measuring of pelvic arch, no testing of blood, no building with calcium. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I jumped up and didn’t know what had happened at first, when, Oh my God, you should have seen the blood. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jeffrey had been diagnosed with ALL, which stands for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a form of blood cancer in which certain types of white blood cells become deformed and multiply rapidly. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shot down in cold blood, they were! What’s Congress going to do to protect our shipping? Just sit there in Philadelphia and talk about it?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Very wise, dear. I added some gorgon’s blood to these, so your death will be quick and painless.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“There’s no need to sound so disappointed,” he said grimly, wiping flecks of blood and slime off his glasses. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The nurses and doctors didn’t want to touch the blood on the walls and were frankly fearful of breathing the air in the room, too. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is incomprehensible that I shall use this weapon against men of flesh and blood. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A little blood comes out from between her fingers. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The music slinks and rises and settles back to earth, and then the young voice of her long-dead grandfather speaks: There are ninety-six thousand kilometers of blood vessels in the human body; children! All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The night of the accident, Seward’s face swelled so badly that his children could barely recognize him, and the blood pouring through his nose almost suffocated him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet no one is asking about the messenger whose blood has been replaced by static. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“A bit of blood and a broken tooth.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"With those wounds . . . terrible wounds . . . there should be blood all over. Shouldn't there?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her left wing had a long rip that oozed blood. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did he bite him? Please tell me there was blood.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

"The honor of our House was at stake. I had no choice but to ride. No man sheds Lannister blood with impunity." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And shooting a child in cold blood is a terrible crime that cannot go unpunished. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

One way or another, it always ended in blood. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He looks around, taking in the puke on the floor, the blood on my T-shirt. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was not sheep's blood spurting from a bag, but his own life's blood draining away, and no amount of bandaging would staunch it. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

If there are large numbers of people having the blood test, the medical director would be wise to take part of each sample, pool it, and test this pooled sample first. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even ten minutes brushing my teeth had been enough to scrub the sticky film from my mouth, and if I took any more aspirin, I’d probably start leaking blood from every orifice. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

For hours and hours she had me drain her temper from her, like how the leeches remove the toxins from our blood. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Although prison guards and their legitimate children belong by blood to the core class, they are fringe functionaries locked away for most of their working lives in the freezing hinterlands. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The ornate scroll issuing from his side is blood. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There were dead bodies and wounded bodies all down the wall and all down through the trees and blood was streaked on the trees and rocks and rich wet wood splinters were everywhere. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This thing was that the son of Wang Lung’s uncle cast his eyes upon the second daughter of Wang Lung, who was his cousin and by blood the same as his sister. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Head spinning and mixed up and blood dribbling out my nose and mouth. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I saw khakis that were really cheap, only $150, but I didn’t like the stitching, and then I saw them tom and there was blood on them. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other half of me was chanting, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, like spitting out mouthfuls of blood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As the companions set the cauldron on the ground and quickly drew away, the rays of dawn turned the black iron as red as blood. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

As a result most of the Coloureds were ashamed of their black blood, and often their prejudice against blacks was fiercer than the white man’s. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lizzie thought that maybe he really was an idiot, bending down that way, letting the blood spout out. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“So long as he wears the gem he is bound to me, blood and soul,” the red priestess said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sun was finally going down over the mountains, turning the sky blood red. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Did you not swear back then, great Odin, that you would drink at a banqueting table only if Loki, your sworn blood brother, drank with you?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She became intensely aware of her heart thumping, of the blood thudding in her ears, of the shape of Tariq beside her, tightening up, becoming still. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He repositioned his patient’s head and swept the blood out of the patient’s mouth with his fingers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To make sure my blood wasn’t too mixed. Can't catch a break for being a half-breed, any way you look at it.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But when she opened her eyes, she saw no blood, no shredded flesh. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lived in marshes and stagnant pools, sucked blood from man and horse alike, and laid their eggs in the dead and dying. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In it, a bullfighter lies on his back, blood seeping from his left shoulder. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Phlegm and blood on a shirt couldn’t be any more contagious. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I think about the blood coming out of him, hot as soup, sexual, over my hands. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he tasted the unmistakable bitterness of blood on his tongue. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The way she used Kipling to love her children before putting them to bed: We be of one blood, thou and I. Her goodnight kiss. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart began to beat like a merry drum and blood started flowing through my veins like cars from a wedding party honking their way through town. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment he lay as though stunned, with dark blood oozing from his mouth and nose. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Laila’s feet felt heavy again, anchored to the floor, as if all her blood had suddenly pooled down there. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I'd hold onto the banister and all, with this blood trickling out of the side of my mouth a little at a time. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“According to Ostis, you can use Transformation to imbue a sword with ‘a thirst for blood,’ so when it comes time to kill, the blade itself seeks out its targets.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The blood beneath my skin brings fear and restlessness into my thoughts. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d heard some Healers could match one person’s blood to another’s, but if it was done incorrectly, it was as good as poisoning the patient. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She stretched her fingers out, then curled them into fists, in and out and in and out, trying to get the blood flowing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

With that, the warriors turned upon each other and fell beneath their own spears while the furrows ran with blood. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am the blood of the dragon,” she told the grass, aloud. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A small, round pool of blood stares back at me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He was reaching for his third towel when he passed out from the combined effects of loss of blood and the fifth of whiskey he had drunk earlier. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Saliva mixed with blood was trickling from his lips. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother once told me my height came from my grandfather, who was a northerner, and may have even had some Mongol blood. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Julian wore the protective plate and the bladder of blood. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m guessing they’ll get over it once the blood starts flowing,” I say flatly. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

All the time he got that pistol up in Massa Charles’ nose so deep, blood running down his face.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

As she rinsed her gloves in it, the liquid turned brown with monkey blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We westbound folk made do with poorly patched corrugated metal that leaked rainwater the color of old blood. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I bet he’d forgotten about it the second we paddled far enough away so the blood slick was out of sight. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Warm blood filled her mouth and ran down over her chin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the dim red light of the blood clouds, Death Mist Annabeth looked like a freshly risen zombie. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And yet . . old as he was, Cressen had never seen a comet half so bright, nor yet that color, that terrible color, the color of blood and flame and sunsets. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I listened to the music, ignoring my stinging lip and the blood running down my chin, into my hands, down my arms. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He leans down and rips the bandage off his leg, eliminating the final barrier between his blood and the earth. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A seam of blood ran from her shoulder to her elbow. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It isn’t as easy to stop the blood on his own, what with it making him want to throw up. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was an outsider by race, religion, culture—and blood. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The two of them followed the path, Mark hoping the whole time they didn’t find more blood. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The dragon kings had wed brother to sister, but they were the blood of old Valyria where such practices had been common, and like their dragons the Targaryens answered to neither gods nor men. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Among mixed bloods, one never made the mistake of calling an octoroon a quadroon or a quadroon a mulatto, although all mixed bloods were loosely called mulattoes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Alfred plunged forward, the months of shadowboxing taking over now, left. . . left. . . right to the face . . . hook . . . and Angel was reeling against the ropes, a drop of blood oozing from his nose. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought she’d managed it well enough, but Inej had lost a lot of blood, and Nina had no idea what to do about that. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He stuck his blade into the tail end of the fish and cut up to its head, letting the blood drip onto Emmett’s chest and face. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

My foot throbs painfully as blood leaves a trail over the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She may have been splattered with the nun’s blood or with black vomit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dazed, and blood streaming from his head dripped in his eyes. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“It is an ability passed through families by blood, though not always consistently in each generation. Why do you ask?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I was remembering a man with empty eyes and a smile from a nightmare, remembering the blood on his sword. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maya had been a step away, but she whirled around, red like a wound exploding, sending blood straight into the sky. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The arrow dissolved, leaving no blood and no visible wound, but Nico’s face was tight with rage and pain. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Against the wall of the gutter, a bearded man whose shirt was stained with someone else’s blood sat holding his head in his hands. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Buddy opened out a newspaper and covered the smear of blood on the floor where the rat had been crushed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And with that he slashed Kvasir’s throat, and they hung Kvasir by his feet above the vats until the last drop of his blood was drained. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The darkness crouching inside me seeps through my blood. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

We took back the sail, the strips of towel, even the tourniquet crusty with blood. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a rushing sound in her ears as if she were listening to her own blood running far too fast through her veins. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

‘Mother Gaia ..His voice was impossibly deep, shaking the ruins, making the metal scaffold resonate under Piper’s feet. ‘In ancient times, blood mixed with your soil to create life. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Strength and courage flow into my body like new blood. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But what made a red blood cell acquire a sickle shape? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the blood I hated; it was the deadness. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I pulled them back on they were smeared with blood. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had received cuts from tree branches before and I knew that the next day the cuts were red with dry blood and that the welts were sore. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others were thought to be precipitated by episodes of blood loss. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I know” I said to her, and instinctively swiped a finger under my nose to check for blood. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Each time he gasped, pain gripped his chest and the thick sweet taste of blood filled his mouth. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Little flashes of light blinked out as the spirits sped through his blood vessels and entrails, crisscrossing synapses and cell membranes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Then as the ages passed and people no longer believed that the earth needed blood to be fruitful, all that was cruel in the story would be dropped and in the end forgotten. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blood has been stripped of its clotting factors. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe your tutors didn’t cover this lesson, but you do not argue with a man covered in blood and a knife up his sleeve.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Alex keeps asking if she can detect a lust for blood. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Every drop of blood, every vein twisting under his skin. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

If their blood went positive, they could immediately report to the Slammer. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Julius rolled over and over to get away from those teeth, leaving a trail of blood across the white marble. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Aaron yells out in pain, blood shooting everywhere. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Overhead, thunderheads formed, dark and swollen as blood blisters. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I would be no different from the next one, if I hadn’t paid my own little part in blood. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tip of my forefinger is sliced neatly across the top, and blood is dripping onto my jeans. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I come from that long trail of blood.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

"You know how many Christmas Eves I've been deprived of my own blood kin? Now is that fair, to do that to a man? Lock him up for a crime he never did?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bone marrow is the chief producer of red blood cells throughout life, sending some 10 million new cells per second into the bloodstream of man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

If it’s in her blood, you cant do anything with her. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stumbled into one of the chrome chairs and bent forward gasping for breath, waiting for the blood to come back to my head. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then he heard the blast and felt the bullet boring through his arm, through flesh and blood and bone, the buckshot fragmenting, some pieces going through his arm and into his chest. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There was a smear of blood on his shoe. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Calling his military chiefs to Berlin, Hitler announced: “Further successes can no longer be obtained without the shedding of blood.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like all the blood in her body rushed to her heart, all at once. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Researchers knew from simulated zero-gravity studies using animals that space travel could cause cardiovascular changes, degradation of bone and muscle, and a loss of red blood cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My body vibrates with the rhythms of the cumbias, as though my blood and bones have absorbed the music and my insides are dancing. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran until the sound of blood pulsing in my ears was louder than the thoughts in my head; then I turned around and ran back, swinging around the pasture to the red railroad car. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Jack transferred the knife to his left hand and smudged blood over his forehead as he pushed down the plastered hair. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I can almost smell the blood, the dirt, the unnatural breath of the mutt. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No, it was Hamlet, in the flesh and blood,” Horatio said, defying my disbelief. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Then focused through a film of blood on a beloved child. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sponge bathed me where blood had dried on my chest and belly, right down to the waistband of my shorts. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The blood of picked scabs on her arm. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blood is dripping on the white sheet, and the fibers of the silk are so delicately painted that it’s hard to believe they aren’t real. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There was blood down the front of her sweater and smeared on one of the sleeves. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She had the blood—or at least the soul—of a hero. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I have no stomach for it anyway, no heat in my blood. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

My blood begins to pound in my ears. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I smelled it in the wind, the iron in the blood. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A trickle of blood ran slowly down, joining the rain puddles still lying on the steps. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Don’t I have the soldier’s blood in me? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was insane that my blood could run as frigid as winter at the same moment my heart started to squeeze out a panicked rhythm. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My arms are atria and my legs are ventricles and I pump the blood all around the right way because there has to be something I can do. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

To all this was added the rush of his blood, roaring through the channels in his head. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He’d learned that the giants planned to use him as some kind of blood sacrifice to awaken Gaea. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His tail’s two thirds shorter than it used to be, blood everywhere, but, God bless him, he’s still trying to wag. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Again she saw the baby; the thin trickle of blood on its face; the way it held out its arms to be taken up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blood drained from his legs, and he thought he was going to drop. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to go back into that house with its dead man and his gun and my blood that is not my blood and their madichon. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

All this can only have happened a little while ago, the blood is still fresh. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

His own father really would gut him if he ever got hold of him again; it didn’t matter if they shared blood or not. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

We also mix cow blood with the milk. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a large number of broken blood vessels in the whites of the deceased’s eyes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’s like my IV, but instead of blood he’s giving me strength. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The Walders might be scared of them, but the Starks had wolf blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Both she and Steven watched in fascination as blood began to well out of Matt’s cuts again. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sits for the rest of the night in that circle of light from the streetlamp, soaking her nightgown in thickening blood. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Every time the roosters drew blood, there was cheers and groans, so much so that you might of thought it was those men themselves that was getting all cut up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were drops of blood on the floor here too, and there had been small, smudged coins of blood on the stairs as he walked up. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

You’ve got to draw first blood against a bunch of hogs like this. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sunlight shone through the doors, illuminating the Champion’s splattered blood like stained glass. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It melted into a rectangular pool about the size of a parking space—bubbling red liquid like blood. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny bright lights danced before his eyes, his body trembled and he felt the blood boiling in his veins. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

His bullet wound oozes, but not with blood. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He looked up at me and his face was bathed in water and flowing, hot blood, but it was also dark and peaceful as it slumped into the sand of the riverbank. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The liver was swollen, and she noticed some blood in the intestines. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Berg had power, but most of the lights had been broken, except for a small red emergency bulb in the corner that made everything look like it was washed in blood. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I wet the mother’s face a little, washed blood from around her nose and mouth. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Think, he told himself, as all the blood rushed to his head, think. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She’d just handed me a copy of Medical Genetics, by Victor McKusick, and said, “I met this man cause he wanted some blood from me for some cancer tests.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Pax shook off the blood from a dozen superficial scratches and then cleaned Gray’s wound. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The cow moved, heavy as a camel, turned her head and began to lick the calf, covering its face with her tongue, and sucking up the mucus and blood. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He sank back to the ground, his blood- smeared body trembling while he wiggled his stub tail and tried to lick my hog-cut leg. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only sound is a choking in his throat as he continues to vomit blood 'and black matter while unconscious. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dark waves flung shards of ice at him, and the blood from his cuts steamed and froze. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A trail of blood was left on the mud where the creature crawled. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

A line of blood dropped from his nose to his shirt. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There was the rattle of drums, with the shouts of officers, and off the ships poured a flood, scarlet as a tide of blood. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down and saw a drop of blood ooze out from under the broken nail. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss’s blood boiled, an instantaneous fury spreading so fully within him that tears leapt to his eyes. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I was never your father nor of your blood, but I wote well ye are of an higher blood than I wend ye were.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman who churned a man’s blood as she leaned all alone on a fence by a country road might not expect even to catch his eye in the City. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sucked the air out of me, but it was okay because he breathed for both of us—his heart pumped blood for us too. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“There’s so much blood,” she moans, leaning against me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He joined her in the doorway, his face dripping with sweat, and blood from several cuts. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Let’s not panic when Mom’s blood pressure got really high near the end of her pregnancy. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"I heard your boy kicked him so hard, Steve cried blood." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Something occurs to me suddenly, something that makes my blood run cold. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I told her that I didn’t have the patience to be a teacher, and she began to talk about how she had briefly considered going to nursing school but couldn’t bear to be around blood. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was told that he had thrust his maimed fist into the face of the axeman so the blood spurted into his eyes, and slew him while he was blind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He had rheumatic fever, chicken pox, pneumonia three or four more times, started coughing blood when he was six, was anemic, drowsy all the time, constantly sniffling, weak and miserable, and—everybody thought— dying. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I raked the leaves away and let his blood drip on the black mountain soil. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As minutes slip by, I just sit there beside Valerian, watching the skin of his face grow paler as the blood no longer pumps to it, watching his lips go a kind of greenish blue. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Instead he bit the inside of his cheek to keep from crying, until the sharp, salty taste of blood spread over his tongue. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She pushes herself to her feet and wipes the blood from her lip. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t feel anything at first, only the warm, sticky blood filling my eye. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I know why you are here. For fire and blood.’ A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I felt the blood rush to my face again. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I saw his face under the hat, upturned mustaches and blood coming down his cheek. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“What—?” Koffi scrambled away from the bowl in horror, not caring as more blood dripped down her arm to stain the beautiful rug. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The man’s face went so purple I thought he’d burst a blood vessel in his neck. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

We didn't talk about the blood on the handkerchiefs or the coughs that ricocheted from the back of my house. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The new linen was already discolored by blood and pus. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But then he loved the pure idea of family as well, which in its most elemental version must have nothing to do with blood. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly, the body could not be manufacturing that much blood and there must really be a lot less continuously circling through the veins and arteries of the body. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The warm, safe scent of her belly entered my nostrils and completely invaded me, awakening in my blood a fire I had thought long since extinguished. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was all over, the floor, chair, and walls in Sister M. E.’s hospital room were stained with blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As in: Mom doesn’t want Dad eating salt, because too much of it increases the volume of blood, which can cause hypertension. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

The room was filled with quiet and cold and death and blood and the deep moan of the night wind. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the day’s picking lay before the slaves foremost and they stooped to their orders, enduring the dogs’ terrible noise and the visions of blood to come. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He rolls the president on one side and carefully searches for a puncture wound, his fingers slipping along the skin, probing for a telltale oozing of blood. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Furious, aroused by the blood of his bird, the loser backed away from José Arcadio Buendía so that everyone in the cockpit could hear what he was going to tell him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I could feel the blood rise to my face. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She used to talk about the Czar or the Kaiser and how the Russian soldiers would come into the village and line up the Jews and shoot them in cold blood. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When there was milk, we bled a cow, mixed the blood with the milk, and drank it. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tickle of blood dripping down on his cheek. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Even through the blood I could smell the flinty gunpowder from the bullet. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If a family member had committed a crime or treason, his blood was considered bad. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When Scoob looks at his arm and sees the lines of drying blood that have run down over his hand from a nasty-looking cut near his elbow, the dull ache explodes into a burning throb. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Jen squeezed out a few drops of blood and let them fall to the carpet. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she wrapped a hand around it, blood leaked through her fingers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Pain tore through my shoulder and I tasted blood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was of more than royal blood; his mother was Aphrodite herself, and when Diomedes wounded him she hastened down to the battlefield to save him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even then, I had no idea where the blood came from or what it was for. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

His red hair was matted down against his head, and half his face was smeared with drying blood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Poor payment for the blood and bruises, Tyrion thought, but he kept that to himself as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His blood felt like warm rain as it sprayed across her face. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“There better not be any blood on the phone.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I can already taste the blood where his ring cut my lip and I don’t wanna know. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They told Baba that running a business wasn’t in his blood and he should study law like his father. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

No evidence that Celia’s blood has ever marred its surface, but she knows that it is the same card. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Somewhere up there is the chair I sat in while I was running the attack simulation, and a smear of Tris’s father’s blood on the wall. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Cordelia is subdued: blood is impressive, even more impressive than vomit. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could imagine anything besides the blood on my dad’s face. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I can tell it still hurts him to use his fingers, and his nails are dark with dried blood. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

All that meets me, all that floods over me are but feelings—greed of life, love of home, yearning for the blood, intoxication of deliverance. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eat foods that are green and wholesome, dress against the cold and damp, and walk every day to aid digestion and stir your blood,” I tell them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And you definitely don’t need the same blood to lose a part of yourself when someone dies. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

If there was blood within a hundred yards, he would find it. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I shout her name, and she coughs again, this time more blood. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She could taste the blood in her mouth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"And your blood will be in the sea, if you sail the way you talk," she told him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It only exists in connection with those whose habits are to seek association with men and domestic animals, to bite them and to suck their blood. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later Luke’s arm was gashed to the bone and he was running toward the house, blood spurting. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I can hear my own breathing, the blood pumping in my ears. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

If the vaccine worked, the serum from a vaccinated child’s blood would block the poliovirus and protect the cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“God’s blood. You might as well have been a dog,” he said. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I will run back to the garage and find the dead body of a woman stuck in my windshield, blood everywhere. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“They did. No amount of gold will buy your people back, I was told. Only the blood of dragons may set them free again.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a tremendous fishy odor like a thousand tuna cans had been opened, and a sizable pool had formed on the ground below its mouth—blood, seawater, and mysterious shark fluids. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

We got into the lobby and there was a guy standing there with no shirt on and blood dripping down the front of his chest and onto his stomach and the front of his pants. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in some dark gully in a back corner of a village, her beloved Kaveh lay slaughtered, blood flowing from his neck for stray dogs to lick at, until it turned brown. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There’s blood on my hands as I walk quickly from the bush and up the street. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He opened his eyes, moved without hesitation toward a group of large boulders until he found the blood drops. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear his blood in his ears, thudding excitement. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

From behind came a shuddering howl that curdled his blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I practice the art of ‘pull his shirt over his head and punch till you see blood.’” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But if you say, “Poisoned by the town doctor in a blood feud,” then you get looks. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“There’s no blood in these claw marks,” she said, twisting her head to look over her shoulder at Chaol. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“You want us to kill him in cold blood ?” Yossarian objected. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She saw the muscles of their faces tighten, a movement under the skin from blood to marble. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered the look on Father's face when Theon Greyjoy brought forth Ice, the spray of blood on the snow, the way Theon had kicked the head when it came rolling at his feet. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The smears of blood on the wall looked like someone had been writing, and then rubbed it away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They used hybrids to create the first monoclonal antibodies, special proteins later used to create cancer therapies like Herceptin, and to identify the blood groups that increased the safety of transfusions. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Not enough blood for the vampires to notice,” he assured her. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I only know you are men of flesh and blood; and that blood will spill and flesh grow cold. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red mud dried on his khakis like the blood of a slain beast. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered if their blood was red like hers, or if it was some other queer color. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The blood on Conor’s tongue made him want to throw up. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He fell down and got up and stumbled after her, his red face all smeared with dirt and blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Morris, who had sunk to the ground, leaned on his elbow, holding his hand pressed to his side; the blood still gushed through his fingers. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The flagstones of the deserted entrance hall were stained with blood. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“In part I think it is her nature. It could be she simply has wandering blood.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Baratheon brothers would drown each other in blood while her son faced the Lannisters alone, and nothing she could say or do would stop it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t understand all of what he was saying, but the words I did understand made my blood boil. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was so crusted with dried blood as to be unrecognizable. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“My stupid tia. Sorry. I’m pretty sure she’s proof my family has hyena blood.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Andy used it two days, then there was a last great gush of blood which stained the fine new pillow a rusty brown and Andy died. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Far below, like the blood of the earth, From the center of nowhere rushing forth,” he sang under his breath. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t know he mixed human blood with it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The president’s box at Ford’s Theatre was also drenched in blood. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shapes of dried blood in the stubble grass and gray coils of viscera where the slain had been field-dressed and hauled away. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Movie night or Honor Pictionary or Book Club?” my mom asks while inflating a blood pressure cuff around my arm. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I held the shoe up, before Joan's enlarged, pebbly eyes, tilted it, and watched her take in the stream of blood that cascaded onto the beige rug. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that they’d run over a woman in cold blood. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He struck the mare with his front hoof, and while she staggered under the blow, his teeth raked her neck and drew an ooze of blood. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as long as my littlest finger and smeared with my blood. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I felt that the pale young gentleman’s blood was on my head, and that the Law would avenge it. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Glancing at Old Dan, Papa said, “It’s in his blood, Billy. He’s a hunting hound, and the best one I ever saw. He only has two loves—you and hunting. That’s all he knows.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dothraki hooves had tom the earth and trampled the rye and lentils into the ground, while arakhs and arrows had sown a terrible new crop and watered it with blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I remembered what Grandma had said: “Church is the life’s blood of our folks’ community.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You shall supply the magical blood he’ll require to nourish himself back to a proper magician.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I bite a hand that belongs to the Dauntless man on my right and smile as I taste blood. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Look at ail that blood on your tennis shirt and pants.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The passion between two people can ruin the arcana. Poison the blood with toxins." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

This includes various tissues but most importantly those engaged in the production of blood. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They were all lined up, and blood still poured out of their bullet wounds. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The bump on my forehead was swollen and I stopped the bleeding by lying still and letting it coagulate, then picked away the dried blood except over the cut. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

My ninth I was the Bleeding Scream, the one that has fake blood oozing out over the skull mask. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

"Jaime?" he croaked, almost choking on the blood that filled his mouth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He stuck his hand under the spray and felt the blood rush through his body. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had knelt so long that his blood had almost stopped and needle-like pains shot from the bottom of his feet to the calves of his legs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And the knife, clean of all blood, is still in my hand. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then he closed his eyes and concentrated on smelling out the blood. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He wiped off the blood, but it was still swollen twice its normal size. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And at this date my letter was written, but two hours and a half afore my death, written with mine own hand, and so subscribed with part of my heart’s blood. Gawaine of Orkney.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigwig, the blood oozing from his back and ear, stood his ground and waited. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Past his skin, red blood welled and glittered. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I spit my iron blood in his face. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He spread a neat layer of newspapers beneath the head, so that the blood would not drip on the floor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Separate trickles of blood spilled to a puddle on the floor through one saturated trouser leg like countless unstoppable swarms of wriggling red worms. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mocked for generations if we cannot avenge our sons’ blood, and our brothers’! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

William stood in the center of the road, shoulders heaving, deep red blood spattered across his skin and face like war paint. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

At home, I was given a warm salt solution, and when I washed out my mouth I showed Bailey the empty holes, where the clotted blood sat like filling in a pie crust. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened his mouth and blood gushed over his chin and onto the bright silver buttons of his uniform. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Her son, a man my father’s age, had blood running down his forehead. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

By then the blood was dripping off my chin and onto the white satin lining inside the coffin. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"My great-grandfather married a Swedish girl, you know? So the family has light-colored blood, and that Sandi got it all. But imagine, spirit of contradiction, she wanted to be darker complected like her sisters." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He seemed unaware that a trickle of blood had made its way down his face to the end of his chin. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

On the gurney in the emergency room, the blood had made the wound look much worse than it was. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

If identity was geography instead of blood—if living in a place was what really mattered—then Ishmael was part of her, inside of her, as much as anything Japanese. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re his flesh and blood, and even if he has another family now, he still loves you.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Above was nothing but blood and roaring red and choking smoke and the screams of dying horses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then the voice of groaning was heard and the voice of triumph from slayer and from slain and the earth steamed with blood. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we did not have the same blood in our veins, I would sell you my daughter,” another said to Jaja. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Like I’m waiting for something to suck out my blood,” I try to say but all that comes out is, “Waiting.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The hum of talk came to him dimly, his rage blood pounded in his ears, and he burst through and strode away. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The witch’s spell did not cover the blood that must have spilled, and insects and the sun and the wind had dispersed it completely. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

By winning, Bobby not only extracted the first drop of his opponent’s blood, he ensured that the wound would not soon close up. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My right knee bent and my brand-new Nikes stained with blood. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

When Henrietta’s cousin Emmett Lacks heard somebody at Sparrows Point say Henrietta was sick and needed blood, he threw down the steel pipe he was cutting and ran looking for his brother and some friends. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Going closer, he watched them hack the tusks from a motionless elephant on the ground and haul them away, spattered with blood. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

If son of mine you are and blood of mine, let no one hear Odysseus is about. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the weekends, destined to disappoint, are strident, sullen, sprinkled with bruises and dots of blood. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Heimdall will grin then, in death, grin through golden teeth flecked with spittle and with blood. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

My face stings, and the blood in my fists reaches a boiling point. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Peeta lands in the shards, and blood immediately flows from his hands. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The ivory floors and walls of the great banqueting hall were dripping with blood. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she thought of San Francisco, she thought about the airplane and the fire and blood and the flashes and death. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was blood on his shoulder, blood on his face, his arm hung limp, he had no sword. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was cold down here, a cold that she. felt all the way through, cold flesh, cold blood, cold bones. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It cost me another gash on the index finger and blood trickled down into my palm. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I knew crocodiles must be in the river and that they could smell blood. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blood reeked, somehow, of death and decay. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His lip was cut and his mouth full of blood. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

"They help reset our arcana and purify our blood. And don't insult the sangsues." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Autolykos’ tall sons took up the wounded, working skillfully over the Prince Odysseus to bind his gash, and with a rune they stanched the dark flow of blood. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mouth was full of blood and flesh and hair, but he dare not spit or swallow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The broad blade was mottled with dried blood and rust. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His yellow robe was splattered with blood, and blood covered his hands, shiny and slick. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

My mom once said that if someone gets shot, try to stop the bleeding, but there’s so much blood. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

His teeth cut into his top lip and he spat blood. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

But she was upset by the idea of killing the rabbit in cold blood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see blood in the water; then he felt himself being pulled down. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He looked down at his hands, which were covered in scratches and blood, his fingernails torn and ragged, aching from the labor. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I wipe her blood and brains on my pant legs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wells explained that the Martians nourished themselves by injecting a victim’s blood directly into their veins. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The chimneys of Swift’s packing plant stood tall against the sky, belching thick smoke that spread over Packingtown like a blanket, smothering the community below in the stench of blood. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Kem, the ghost footman, said it had been the butchering room before, and the channel was for blood and the big hooks on the ceiling were for hanging meat. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I felt his tongue, soft at first and then stronger as he got worried, licking at the blood and tears on my face. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“You’re flesh and blood, all right, and bone and muscle! Come in, man, and sit down!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Commandant’s voice chills my blood, and as one, Izzi, Cook, and I turn to the kitchen door. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

John blinked against the blood in his eye. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The sharp tang of gunpowder already hung in the air—and along with it a question, unspoken in the quiet, as if the Reaper himself awaited the answer: How much blood will be shed tonight? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He ran his finger around the patient’s tongue to clear the mouth of debris, sweeping out mucus and blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I forced myself to eat slowly, to chew, to suck out the blood. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I noticed my chest was covered in blood and my unbuttoned, once-white school uniform shirt was splattered with red. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The silence spoke, not with harsh sounds, but softly to the rhythm of our blood. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And the blood on the fishing gaff that Sheriff Moran brought you, the one he found while searching the defendant’s boat—the one you held in your hands a moment ago—was B positive, doctor?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Marly felt as if her blood had stopped running in her veins. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

But right then, I wished I could open my veins and drain his cursed blood from my body. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tregar stumbled to his knees, his lion crest sheared in half, blood running down his face. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Mask backs into the blood pooled near Nan’s head, and Darin is on him, knocking him to the ground, raining down blows. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Sometime during the night, McCormick was drawing blood from an old woman. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ironbom captains were proud and willful, and did not go in awe of a man's blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Harry reached out, straightened the half-moon spectacles upon the crooked nose, and wiped a trickle of blood from the mouth with his own sleeve. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The realization drains the blood out of me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The day Stick got his head cut, I’d stood in this same room, with its uncomfortable rows of chairs and the bitter smell of blood and medicine mixing in the air. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Leukocytes become more actively phagocytic, release lysosomal enzymes, turn sticky, and aggregate together in dense masses, occluding capillaries and shutting off the blood supply. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw another Latino kid, one who couldn’t have been much older than himself, hunched over on a bench, blood on his jeans. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"Now, go to your bedroom. The nurses are waiting with the leeches. You've had enough excitement for a week. The toxins in your blood must be high. It's what makes you behave this way." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

And I don’t know where all my blood went, but I know it didn’t go anywhere I particularly cared about. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I've got diabetes, high blood pressure, a hyperactive thyroid, and poor circulation in my legs. And she’s worried about a little caffeine.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to check your blood pressure,” she said. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The warlocks whispered of three treasons . . . once for blood and once for gold and once for love. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The blood in my veins is steaming hot. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound burst painfully from me like blood. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t enough blood left to maintain circulation, so his heartbeat was very sluggish, and his blood pressure was dropping toward zero. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the motto I read in my Faction History textbook: Faction before blood. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But just because he didn’t like the thought of his blood on the outside didn’t mean he was really afraid of those things. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The blood took his will; he was too exhausted to do anything about it and when the nurses hurried past him and left his bandaging unchanged, he did not call out to them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Let Amber go, and you can have me. All my blood." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Men that saw them whispered saying: ‘Belike the old tales speak well; there is Elvish blood in the veins of that folk, for the people of Nimrodel dwelt in that land once long ago.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I wiped some blood from my forehead with the back of my hand, then chose to ignore the pain. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Needles was heavier than he looked, and I could feel his blood seep through my shirt as I took the steps, one by one. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

They would put the used bandage off to the side, wadded and covered with smears of blood and yellow stuff and little pieces of burned skin. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I quit breathing and my blood ran cold when all the sudden he shouted, “Lord, have mercy!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Cold on the porcelain, her hair was down, loose around her shoulders, and matted with dried blood. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The nails from one of the bear-fighting dog’s front paws had disappeared into the front of my shirt and my blood was starting to leak out. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

That he had a point did not stop the blood from rushing to my face. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The projecting point of one strand had lacerated his neck and drops of blood, dark and red as yew berries, welled one by one down his shoulder. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer kneels on the dirt floor and takes the man’s pulse and blood pressure, then puts a stethoscope to his chest. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The oscilloscope shattered right near the front hallway, and when I saw the blood pouring out of Norton’s nose, I was so happy I began to laugh. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

"I am the blood of the dragon. I am the blood of the dragon." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Dragon hide, blood, heart, fiver and horn all have highly magical properties, but dragon eggs are defined as Class A Non-Tradeable Goods. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skin had smelled blood and mold, but it was warm and thick. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"There's no one can argue with that. You are of the blood, and all of your uncles are dead and gone. You will make a fine Lord of Stormhold." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

A tiny streak of blood trickled down my chin. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the third morning Caradhras rose before them, a mighty peak, tipped with snow like silver, but with sheer naked sides, dull red as if stained with blood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And blood spewing out in every direction, down the guy’s chest and Mong’s face and clothes, splattering across the asphalt in stringy lines. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

All ladies of noble blood, all of marriageable age. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Sinita looked over at her brother, and the front of his white shirt was covered with blood. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a dark-faced man; his skin, perhaps from sun, was a black red, as though some Norse or perhaps Vandal blood was perpetuated in him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had no helm, and about his head was a linen band stained with blood; but his voice was loud and strong. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

If only it were like at home where I knew someone in all the houses, knew them by sight and by name, by blood and by background, by shame and pride, and by religion. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One struck the knee of one of the captives, and it burst apart in a gout of blood and bone that left die man’s lower leg dangling by a rope of dark red tendon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I felt the blood rush to my face and sank low in my chair, seething inside, yet I did nothing. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers overturned the tables and chairs, and Amah’s carefully organized box of threads and sewing tools were strewn on the floor, red silk lying on the ground like a pool of blood. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The blood had poured down Fenwick's leg, and left spatters on the gravel. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It was terrible indeed when the trench was dug and filled with blood and the spirits of the dead flocked to it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

May your hands always be stained with blood. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Gurgling blood bubbles pale pink between his teeth. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My right eye blurred by my own blood falling into it. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You said so yourself just last night: I’m an Okojo. I was born to be a warrior. It’s in my blood, same as it’s in yours. It’s in our roots. Kutoka mzizi, remember?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I opened the Threat Assessments folder first, and when I saw what was inside, I felt the blood drain from my face. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Beside Demetrius lies Leander, blood staining his halo of curly hair, trickling down his crooked nose and off his chin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The left side of the knight's face ran red with blood, and a cut to the hip opened a gash .in his mail and left him limping. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t hear anything but the rush of blood in my head. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The notion of blood purity led to brutal persecution of Jews, Muslims, and many others during the Inquisition and the Crusades. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Used to be a notion that witches killed folks with the blood from this root,” Mr. Chris said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Droplets of blood and histamine ooze up under the zinc. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It dribbled green bile and gobbets of blood. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite being a lizard, the water monster had warm blood, and his heartbeat bumped against his forearms. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He launches into a lively description of Okeus, the vengeful god, who requires sacrifices of tobacco, copper, beads, and sometimes animal blood, and sends punishment if he is not made happy. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He was looking again in sweaty fear at her head lying upon the sticky newspapers with blood oozing outward toward the edges. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Whereupon the captain tell him that he had better be quick—with blood—for that his ship will leave the place—of blood—before the turn of the tide—with blood. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I thought of the blood, I think, dirtying the mattress. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every now and then a ray of moonlight through the branches above lit a spot of silver-blue blood on the fallen leaves. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“I guess these old mountains, the mines, the people get in your blood,” he said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He held his paper handkerchief to his mouth and it became spotted with blood. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ares’s fiery eyes made me see things I didn’t want to see—blood and smoke and corpses on the battlefield. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The dagger was still clutched tightly in his right hand, slick with blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She found that the package was sticky with blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A line of blood struck me across the face. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Royal smiled through the blood that bubbled on his lips. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“You can’t keep drawing your own spirit. It might not kill you,” he said, because spirit wasn’t like blood, and somehow people went on living without it, if you could call it living. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand them, Father. Sometimes they feel like dreams, but other times the people feel real, and...I hurt them. I see the blood and want to stop, but...I can’t.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Flakes of dried blood crumbled at the touch of her fingertips, black in the lantern light. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then I realized I was the one doing the yelling as I pressed my hands down onto Georgia Boy’s neck, trying to stem the flow of blood. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see Richard’s face, blood dripping from his mouth, down his chin. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then I thought of the blood and how it would feel on my hands. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“My blood goes back fifty generations, older than tree or stone. And I am come to this,” he put his head against the palms of his hands and looked down at his tin tray. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My trouble was I hated the sight of blood. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I scan the scene of blood and bodies and prisoners. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She was wearing her pink slip, and it bore no blooms of blood. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Soldiers have a peculiar kind of honor, even those who dip their caps in the blood of their enemies. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It did not result from the high-testosterone plasma levels in my blood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And in the sixth month, she began to cough up blood. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

He showed her the palm of his hand where he’d slashed it for their blood oath. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The blood of a female demigod, Gaea had said, and the blood of a male. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I was born with half my brain dried up like a prune, deprived of blood by an unfortunate fetal mishap. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That transfer is not at all surprising, considering that many peasant farmers live and sleep close to cows and their feces, urine, breath, sores, and blood. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Booth and Powell had left behind so much blood. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ripped its innards out and stooped to lap blood straight from the bowl of the torn carcass, his crazed eyes peeping over the rim, glittering with rage and hate and mad fulfillment. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Anna’s case, the doctors had not reported any indications of this, and from all the descriptions of the crime scene there had been no trail of blood from the car down to the creek. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

You and I have something in common, besides the Wright blood. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Roots grabbed at Theon's feet as he ran, and bare branches lashed his face, leaving thin stripes of blood across his cheeks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I remembered the soft, fluid heat of my own blood. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were some bloods standing around, doing nothing as usual, and I just went on by them. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Amid a stream of blood and saliva, the two halves of a dental plate fell out of his mouth. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

HARRY/VOLDEMORT: Come here, in the light, so I may examine what my blood made. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

How dark, almost black, Hassan’s blood had looked on the snow, dropping from the seat of his pants. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had been thrown over Rufus’s horse like a grain sack, head and feet hanging, blood dripping from my mouth onto the familiar boot that let me know it was Rufus I rode with. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The tsar frowned at her, and her blood froze in her veins. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He squinted his eyes in the wind and noticed that it was not water, but blood falling from the clouds. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Nor is the vertue of the Loadstone, being lost, recovered by Goats blood. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then Samuel’s hands were on Adam’s throat, pressing the throbbing up to his temples, swelling his eyes with blood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Both the Jewish people and the Palestinian people have lost too many sons and daughters and have shed too much blood. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blood Of the fruit runs Down to their elbows, Like a vein. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls turned the color of dried blood. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above his collar, the skin jumps, the blood rushing to feed his giant brain. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The wall suddenly loomed, and her blood throbbed in her veins. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He twitched once and lay motionless, his legs bent at unnatural angles, a pool of his blood soaking through the sand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Prince Dain, who was almost the High King, falls on top of the gem-crusted red cloak of state, his spilling blood lost in the jumble of jewels. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“He’s a jerk. I’m proud of my Indian blood. It helps pay my college tuition. Hell, one day it’ll probably help get me a job, if I can’t sell my bronzes.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I look around and catch my own reflection in the mirror across the room: a human girl, hair tousled, eyes feverish, a pool of blood forming at her feet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My nose registers the conflicting scents of roses and blood. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It felt so good to lie there, but she knew she’d left a trail of blood behind her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I am weak from blood loss and too small. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The water on the tiles in the shower stall turned pink around my feet where the dried blood washed down from my body. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Well, if it’s as easy as catching my future from a blood relative, then I guess I’m due to be a drunk, pregnant, dropout stripper any day now. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It is claimed that you can teach your kidneys to change the rate of urine formation, raise or lower your blood pressure, change your heart rate, write different brain waves, at will. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The direwolf could sense the warm blood coursing beneath the elk’s shaggy hide. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Before going to bed, I scrubbed my face and hands until they were pink and raw, but his blood still mingles with the dust under my fingernails. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I unzip my blue sweatshirt and toss it at the Candor boy, who looks at me from the ground, blood streaming from his eyebrow. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I was covered in it—someone else’s blood was dripping down my cheeks and off my chin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Richard Lopez thought your clean blood and clear eyes and strong heart would fetch an excellent price from the Harvesters. You wish I had stayed loyal to that?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

His brother ran with him, drawn to the smell of blood and death. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Krum, his red robes shining with blood from his nose, was rising gently into the air, his fist held high, a glint of gold in his hand. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Looks like there’s blood on it,” he said. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I guess cross-country is also a blood sport. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Hemoglobin, the oxygen carrier in blood, for instance, performs one of the simplest and yet most vital reactions in physiology. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I bit my lower lip and experienced the metallic taste of blood. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I left through the window, leaving my cloak behind so as not to get any blood on it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They sit on death row in solitary confinement, waiting for the spiking fevers, horrible pain in the internal organs, brain strokes, and finally the endgame, with its sudden, surprising, uncontrollable gushes of blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had no money, so we settled for the blood, which was free. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the worst yet,” Inigo said, and then he jumped back, because behind a pale glass case, a blood eagle was actually eating what looked like an arm. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Telling someone you love them is soft, and if they see you’re soft in the projects it’s like a shark seeing blood—they’re going to attack! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been hit and the water around him was red with blood. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Confusion take this shouting!” exclaimed the magician, stamping on his hat “May Castor and Pollux.... No, not again. God bless my blood pressure....” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This one has given blood on the old bones.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But instead I cast my eyes down on the blood in the dirt. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The santero leads the goat over the offerings and quickly pierces its neck with a butcher knife, directing the stream of blood onto the clay eggs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if I’m convinced my blood is glowing, how am I going to report the results? The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing under the narrow arch I glanced up, wondering if that keystone too was mortared with bone and blood. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

And when your blood gets dirty, it basically messes all kinds of other stuff up inside you. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t been able to see another crime scene to determine if Wyrdmarks had been painted in blood there as well. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My hair was in tangled patches, brown with dirt and matted with blood. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Juana sat him down on his sleeping mat and she wiped the thickening blood from his face with her skirt. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wiped my eyes, and then I saw blood running down my leg and onto my saddle shoe. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rush of blood bubbled up under our hands, coming faster than before. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The cut on my eyebrow breaks open again, the hot blood stinging like a razor. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She saw blood mixed with the baby powder. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cut out their hearts and let their blood run down into the bins of blue cornmeal. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

People say the Khmer Rouge buried corpses next to them and now the palm milk is pink like thin blood and the fruit tastes like human flesh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You lie. I can see the truth in your eyes. You have the eyes of a wolf and a taste for blood.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If I’d known he was awake, if I’d known there was blood on the floor when I gave him that kick . Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blackavar, who knew his own worth, felt convinced that his mother’s blood had prejudiced the Council against him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lewis’s left eye is swollen shut and blood drips onto his shirt from a slash on his cheek, but he refuses to go to the hospital. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“My hall,” he cried, “my lovely hall was full of blood!” Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

My blood still burning, I shove through the mess doors and find myself in the belltower courtyard before I even know where I’m going. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I look: there’s blood on her forehead, not much, but a cut. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was cut in a hundred places—but he was bleeding golden oil instead of blood. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They feed off sorrow and sadness and the stink of blood. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But she has heart disease and high blood pressure now and takes medication for both. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found his cloak on the floor, twisted up tight, the white wool stained by blood and fire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Did you see his face last track season? I thought he’d need a blood donation.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

"Still, Pm a Greyjoy, and an ironman. The sea is in my blood." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Keep the egg in the fire, ’cause their mothers breathe on ’em, see, an’ when it hatches, feed it on a bucket o’ brandy mixed with chicken blood every half hour. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

We slept the rest of that night, and in the morning we saw where the fleas had feasted, our flesh pink with flea welts and bright with the blood of our scratches. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her knees felt watery and her blood ran thin. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

His breastplate was scratched and dented from battle, his blue-and-red cloak stained by blood and smoke. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She had been stacking pillows and blankets as they cleared the gym floor for the blood drive, right around the time Ivy had been looking for her notebook. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He stooped and slid his hands beneath her body, expecting to touch blood, but not touching it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing I’d drawn blood, I smeared my thumb across the glass and spoke a binding. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I thought Dad might be under an oxygen tent or lying in a bed coughing up blood into a white handkerchief, but after a minute, he came hurrying down the hall. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her paper-thin skin, so pale he wonders if they need to attach a bag of blood to one of those poles and give her a refill. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

That’s when the blood came from the two holes, and the driver called for help on the bus radio. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The blood is coming from a cut above his eye. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The hot, reeking scent of their blood was in my nose. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Nathan was silenced, for he saw they were men and had made their decisions, but how could I let them go, who were my own flesh and blood, without a fight? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the blood has left my head, and my vision once again fills with black and white explosions. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Tyrion asked innocently, wiping bubbles of blood off his broken lip with the back of his hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had no handkerchief, but feeling with my fingers I washed away where the dried blood had been, with rainwater that dripped from the canvas, and wiped it clean with the sleeve of my coat. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The tip of that thin needle of wood was red with my blood. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already blood covered the ground and painted the wall. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I experience so many different health conditions— rapid heart rate, elevated blood pressure, dry mouth, pulmonary shock, muscle spasm—that it is impossible for me to even chronicle the degree of body breakdown. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He felt a trickle of blood slide down over his collar. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

As was Gede practice, most of his body was shrouded, but dried blood still stained the white linen in places, hints of the gruesome wounds beneath. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He dreamt an old dream, of three knights in white cloaks, and a tower long fallen/ and Lyanna in her bed of blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It splatters In the road, A few inches from them, The juice flving up Like blood. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were gloved in the finest moleskin and sticky with blood, yet the touch was icy cold. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Now they removed all your blood and pumped in chemicals and stuff. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celaena tasted blood as Cain seized her again, dragging her across the floor. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A small group of men and women were fighting over something that looked like it had once been a person, their hands and faces covered in blood. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He turns to his side; there’s blood on his face. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The blood ran over Bigwig’s neck and down his foreleg. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, it was his own flesh and blood. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The doctor spotted blood seeping from an entry wound on the right side, near the waist about four inches from the backbone. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She paces the center of the room, and her dress blooms around her, the color of fresh blood. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Ophie looked closely, she could see that it was not a scarf at all but rather a trail of blood that undulated and flowed like an infinite river. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Strangers all, friendly enough only a moment ago, and yet now they cried for his blood like hounds on a trail. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Conor put his hand up to his mouth too late to catch a bit of blood coming out of the corner. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

They would not reach the Honeycomb that night and they would leave a fresh blood trail wherever they went. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could practically see the blood rushing through them. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She shattered without any blood, as if she’d died without ever living. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

After letting him squirm for a while, Pollard released the rider, who had blood running from his nose and tears streaming down his face. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days, the smell of leather and blood had clung to him like perfume. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And he clenched his fists and began to plead the blood, to exorcise the hosts of Hell, but even this motion was like another motion, and at length he fell on his knees to pray. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I would make my way by touch up the dark staircase and come to rest against the door, the thud of blood in my ears. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It froze my blood—and then brought a slight measure of relief. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

"They say it comes as a herald before a king, to warn of fire and blood to follow." llie eunuch rubbed his powdered hands together. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The clinic provides its patients with state-of-the-art medical technology, including a blood bank that serves much of the central plateau, and a sophisticated lab. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They walked it in circles several times, letting the merchant and his wife admire the shiny black spikes running down the length of its back, each one sharp enough to draw blood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Tom rubbed his ears until he forced the blood out of them and for a moment they were white. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He took the wineskin handed to him by the lymer and drank deeply, and a trickle of red wine slid down his throat, darker than the bright splashes of blood on his skin. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes my blood feel like lead in my veins. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he thrust his fists toward us, and when he opened his hands they were glistening with stage blood. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“They are of my blood,” the Green Grace said, as Qezza filled her cup with a dark red wine. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The spilled milk seemed wronger than the blood, somehow. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You gave blood, and so you summoned those who share that blood. You called on your foremothers, and they answered.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

‘You have five minutes to prepare. Then blood shall be spilled!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There's still more than an hour, maybe two, when I wriggle into the underbrush and wait for the blood to begin to flow. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The dried blood on his shirt said, Emilia, I’m injured. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It’s all covered with golden sand, fresh each time, as if nothing had ever happened before—raked and ready to soak up the blood.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He could hear his brother panting with the quick explosive breath of a sledgehammer man, and in the sick starlit dark he could see his brother through the tear-watered blood that flowed from his eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was confirmed: the red light from its eye cast a creepy glow on six capital letters smeared across the torso, as if they had been written with blood: WICKED. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

They did try hard to avoid going into his study when they were bleeding and needed a sticking plaster to put over the cut, because they knew Charles hated the sight of blood. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jahrling then put on a space suit and carried his own blood into his Level 4 hot lab. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We cleaned up, scrubbing the blood off the tables and hosing down the floor. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Trails and puddles of blood stain the steps and posts of the huts. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their friendship had always been thicker than blood. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I want you with me because you’ve got the blood of Poseidon. Maybe you can help me figure out where to find salt water. Besides, you’re good in a fight.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mama hastily placed a napkin on the spot, and when she raised the reddened napkin, I remembered her blood on the stairs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We can’t patch an artery like an inner tube. By the way, how do you get him to let you take his blood pressure?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I washed the blood off, put some salt on it and tied it with a cloth. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was back inside Summer, long leagues away, and the night was rank with the smell of blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I sensed their restlessness, and I began to understand why the blood of spring is called the bad blood. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our peace has not been breached. Blood pays for blood, a life for a life. To show our good faith, we return three of your hostages.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Obviously they did not want to go to the regular clinic to have an Army nurse take their blood: that would be a tip-off to the military authorities that they thought they’d been exposed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Don't worry about that, James, I got plenty of blood for you." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then a drop of blood slid down my lip and plopped onto the soft paper where a moment before I had written my name. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I owe him a blood debt that someday I gotta repay.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

‘Twenty-six! . . . Twenty -seven! . . . Twenty -eight! . . He was like a shark. He had the blood lust. The victims were hunched and trembling, walking the gangplank. “Thirty-/o#r/ . Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry had never hated Malfoy more than as he lay there, like an absurd turtle on its back, blood dripping sickeningly into his open mouth. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But then I saw the droplets of blood in the snow coming from beneath her bulky coat. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He ruled out law, because he didn’t like lawyers, and he ruled out medicine, because he couldn’t take the sight of blood. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day, the bullets of the Boers were too much for the assegais of the Zulu impis and the water of the nearby river ran red with their blood. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All these monsters were just blood cells circulating through his body. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Pools of blood spread out around him, enlarging rapidly. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He returned at about five in the afternoon to find her nearly dead from loss of blood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“RAWWWR!”The giant staggered backward, blue blood trickling from his nostrils. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

On the Rena, we were no longer his flesh and blood, but a crew of landlubberly scum shanghaied from the taverns and fleshpots of many exotic ports. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been used recently, blood still on the blade. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I think because she’s fixed her eyes on something beyond the rivers of blood, to a beautiful place on the other side. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The blood seemed to have gone out of him, and with it energy and all ferocity. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That familiar holy terror tore through her blood vessels and wrapped a vise grip around her heart. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It is not a bad thing after all, I thought to myself, to be tiny as well as speedy when there is a bunch of dangerous females after your blood. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

His utter lack of feeling chills my blood. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Behind her, Hodor was tearing eagerly at a chunk of hot charred flesh as blood and grease ran down into his beard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He burst through, blew past the race leader, and, with his shoe torn open, shins streaming blood, and chest aching, won easily. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I spot the hilt of a dagger that's fallen to the dais, the rapidly widening pool of blood spilling out of her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The first one blooms bright with the color of fresh blood, then turns snow white and back again. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The blood of Lancelot’s cut hand was all over the sheets. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Through the like-line. You know. Where your belly button is. That is where the like-line grows from and pumps the blood to the baby.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden I saw sparks flying, glass shattering, and blood splattering. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I just know the one they put on my arm is for my blood pressure, but who, besides old people, even knows what blood pressure is? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And then—only then—did he notice the small hole and circle of caked blood around it in his Levi’s. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His nose and one eyelid were gashed and his whole face was masked with blood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I looked beyond our life on the islands, he became the moon itself, bent on tugging me back, as if I were made of sea instead of blood. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I look back to the blood on the bodyguard’s shoulder. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hemoglobin allows blood to carry seventyfold more oxygen than what could be dissolved in liquid blood alone. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I keep pricking myself and have to be careful not to get blood on the cloth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

His cheeks and nose were speckled with broken blood vessels. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There is a drop of blood on the wood now. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the pig’s head comes a narrow river of blood, spreading out toward the bottom of the frame. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“See this blood,” I said faintly, and waved the handkerchief back and forth. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It crashed into his cheek and slid over onto his nose, and Turner knew that Willis’s face would probably be all blood in a second or two. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

His eyes were unnatural bright, his breathing short and fast and difficult, and what he coughed up was tinged with bright red blood. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t howl,” she said to him, kindly and soothingly, “you’ll bring all your blood to the top of your skin and make it worse.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I blinked the blood from my eyes and saw it was one of the brass balls from the ring in the table base. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“People get dizzy for so many reasons. He could have gotten up too quickly. Or maybe his blood sugar dropped.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

For a second I can see only blinding white light—the taste of blood fills my mouth. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“A chamberpot? Your father’s sweat and blood is a chamberpot? I see your motive. Destroy the last monument to your father’s accomplishments.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s right, Lord.” “—if giving my flesh and blood is not charity?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were wide and deep and clotted with soil, and the ground where he’d lain was muddy from blood. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Now, staring at the creases in my brother’s face, each a little river of blood, I remembered. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When I bring the blood, he brings the man. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Vet number two tested her blood and phoned me a few days later suggesting I consider euthanasia. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

More blood pours out, spilling over his chair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see dried blood on the sleeve of his kurta. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The red blood cells of people of European descent look roughly globular. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bit of blood, a handful of glass splinters, another source of pain. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have no idea what is wrong with the patient, but his eyes are closed and a thin line of blood seeps through a bandage on his neck. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then she lay awake for a while longer, thinking of a gray bird dancing in its blood. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The blood spread across her lifeline, and Jam stared at the painting, at the small red drops she’d tracked along it, past the edge, onto the hardwood floor, bread crumbs leading to her. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Would they have paid that for sugared blood?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The great square jaws and head, his muscular neck and broad chest showed his bulldog blood. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, prowling, are white blood cells—leukocytes, to researchers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was a brown crust of blood on the raw skin of her forelegs where she had fallen. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The scalpel blade, smeared with liver cells and blood, went deep into his thumb. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pandemonium and blood and screaming in the streets. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Today on the highway,” she said, “Gaea told me that she needed the blood of only two demigods—one female, one male. She—she asked me to choose which boy would die.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Thomas screamed, the pain like a burst of adrenaline through his blood. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Once in Zaire, he had stuck himself with a bloody needle while taking blood from a mouse. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because she hadn’t pressed hard enough, hadn’t stopped enough of the blood? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

My blood heats easy tonight, each time the Stingers roll by. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The blood looked like bright red watercolors running down Hanako’s leg. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There’s no blood there or anything, but it’s one of those things I’ll never forget. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are wide, her face drained of blood. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Anatole banished the honey-colored ache of malaria and guilt from my blood. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He desperately wanted to ask what it all meant—powers, gifts, blood of Pylos. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Chronicler sucked in a breath and jerked the sword away as the man’s hand ran along the edge of the blade, drawing blood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“But their blood—” “I don’t very much believe in blood,” said Samuel. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could see blood trickling down Hagrid’s cheek from a deep cut under one eye, which was swelling rapidly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There is blood on my hands too, and on my heart. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Thinking it was black blood, she went to wailing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe he would be punished for treating his flesh and blood so inhumanly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It held the nursery, and none of them could bear the sight of the empty cribs, even if the blood was long since washed away. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My theory is that it allows blood to pour into the side of the brain you need for whatever bit of thinking it is you have to do. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was true, I thought, it is the Márez blood in us that touches us with the urge to wander. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was fresh blood on Frankie’s shirt and pants, but blood was as common as water in this city of slaughter. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I could tell by her cries when the blood started circulating. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the margin, written by someone centuries ago, was the explanation: For sacrifices to the ridderak: using the victim’s blood, mark the area around it accordingly. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Cars growl in the streets; leaves whisper in the sky; blood rustles through her inner ears. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A yank, and the blood- rider stumbled backward, losing his feet and his sword. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“All-father. You and I mixed our blood long, long ago, did we not?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She remembered Mama's face, touched by golden morning sunlight, and she remembered Mama’s body in a pool of blood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I could feel the water covering my ears so that I heard nothing but the blood in my head pulsing and saw nothing but pinpricks of light above. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

My wounded arm gushes blood, and I scream from the effort. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Bedbugs and kwalikwata crawled; women would untie their wrappers to reveal an ugly rash of reddened bites around their waists, like hives steeped in blood. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A jump from this height to the tarmac might have broken a bone or twisted an ankle, but the healing nanites in his blood would quickly release opiates and deaden the pain. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

His mouth was agape and the blood was pumping out of him slower and slower, and Moss couldn’t stop screaming. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

So full of fear and pain it ices my blood. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our hands are clasped so tight that they’re drained of blood. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She dared to look at Amari, who lay deathly still, and at the carpet, stained with both blood and pie. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did he have blood on his hands, like Franklin? How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But now that she could see again, watching him die slowly from gorgon’s blood poison and being unable to do anything about it—that was the worst curse of all. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The staggering cruelty of the human race seemed to sink into her blood and bones. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Seeing that I wasn’t going to take him back, Otto fought fiercely, biting Patrice’s forearm so hard that after he finally released I saw spots of blood. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Shadrack stared at the soft colors that filled these triangles: the lumpy whiteness of rice, the quivering blood tomatoes, the grayish-brown meat. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you see how rich and dark the blood was? It was the color of the Devil’s blood!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s worse because the toilet bowl is dark red with blood. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was plain that they were afraid of the great, bristling buck, with his strange shock of fur and his smell of fresh blood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freedom riders in Montgomery were beaten so severely that an FBI agent said he “couldn’t see their faces through the blood.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then my heart stopped beating, my blood ran cold, and time stood still! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

A rapid scurrying through her well-worn Bible and she had located several passages to shake over our heads—telling us of the sun turning to darkness and the moon to blood. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just looking at him made my blood bubble with that Not Right feeling, and I didn’t want to hear his voice. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The sight of the blood had made Seven’s stomach turn, her fear becoming desperate worry. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The ghouls scrabbled back down the rocky cliffs to the road, beneath a sky the color of bad blood, and they headed towards Ghulheim. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

A few of my wounds pull open during the run, the blood dampening the back of my dress, but it’s nothing compared to the exhaustion I read on the drovers' faces. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He stabbed another toe, cursed as a bead of blood welled up around the knife’s point. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Wormtail, still panting with pain, fumbled in his pocket for a glass vial and held it to Harry’s cut, so that a dribble of blood fell into it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When he took her hand in his and ran his thumb down the center of her palm, the blood in her veins seemed to freeze. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, Mom,” I said matter-of-factly with the binoculars still pressed against my face, “how come blood on a sword dries red, and blood on cloth dries brown? How come?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the hot necropsy zone, under the tarp, they sacrificed the animals and dissected them while wearing Racal suits, taking samples of blood and tissue, which they froze in jars of liquid nitrogen. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had seen the Sorrow Eater make her way up the side of the knoll, and Glerk felt his blood go cold. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Bran could not take his eyes off the blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to send a blood sample to Kinshasa, see what diseases he might have. We’ll have to keep him separate from the other nursery bonobos for a few days, until I get it back.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sudden trickle of blood at one corner of his mouth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t resist as I work off her clothing, scrub the blood from her skin. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Nice white sugar ... when taken moderately cleans the blood, strengthens body and mind, especially chest, lungs and throat,” noted a physician in the 1500s. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The sea is cold, but my blood is hot, running down my neck. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

After years of whippings and abuse and blood, I should have known better. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

TJ lies on the snow, lifeless with a pool of blood slowly growing around his face. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But Jonas’s ankle was twisted, and his knees were scraped and raw, blood seeping through his tom trousers. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he’d left the field, his sword was running red with blood and his arm was so tired he could hardly lift it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At first I think it’s a part of the faint pattern on the knife, but these marks are on top of the blood. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I nodded, and used the cold water to wash the blood off my face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The leeches turn a fiery red as they fill with her blood. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He sees them sometimes against the peach-colored paint on the wall, faint specks engorged with his blood, just inches below the ceiling, always too high up to kill. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I'm immediately taken to see the queen—still covered in Prince Alfred's blood and Belle-rose tea, still angry from his disgusting advances, still shaky from almost stopping his heart. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

On well-grassed flats the blooded Herefords grazed, only looking up as we drove by in a cloud of dust. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prince also had blood covering his own hands, and he saw a bloodied knife on the grass beside them, resting against the roots of the tree. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Even in the dim light from our lamp, I could see the blood on Doc. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The man sat in a chair, holding his stomach and leaning forward with pain, and blood streamed around his teeth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took him a moment to realize that it was Zero's blood. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Her blood went cold at the sight of the shimmering specter of the first Queen of Adarlan. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He turned around, wiping the guy’s blood off his face with the sleeve of his sweatshirt and spitting on the ground. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Planning to spill a little more royal blood tonight?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I rowed with my hands slick with blood. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Panic swelled like a blood blister inside me as the forest parted. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

His torn, blood­ stained clothes had been taken from him and replaced. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She leaned forward with the hem of her skirt bunched in her hand, and wiped blood from the sole of her foot. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I am pretty squeamish about shots and blood and stuff, but what was I going to do? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jam’s heart was pounding steadily, driving anxious blood to all parts of her. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

While everyone else continued to pack, Anya cleaned the blood off Ivan’s face so he wouldn’t horrify any other travelers they came across. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He kicked out his legs to restore circulation of his blood, then crawled to the other side of the roof. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

My head is thick with sounds, my mouth thick with blood. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just wish you weren’t so gung ho about it. If I didn’t know you better, I’d say there was some human blood in you.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I'm sure the pack has got him until his blood splatters my face. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There’s almost no blood on her, but her lips are already blue and the whites of her eyes are completely red, like a ghoul from a low-budget monster movie. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A smell of hot blood came through the crack, a sickening smell that frightened him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Something about her touch brightens the shadows dusking my blood. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He spurred the black horse so savagely that blood spurted from the cuts in the flanks. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was lying in my blood as people hurriedly walked past me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I feel stinging pain, see my blood drip. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“A tiny nick on my arm, but you’re sweet to be concerned. Blood from our right side can cure anything, you know, but blood from our left side is deadly—” “You dimwit!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They don’t have enough red blood cells left to carry oxygen to the brain. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A great knife of pain ripped down her back, and she felt her skin tear open and smelled the stench of burning blood and saw the shadow of wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He groaned and put his hands on his forehead, touched the slickness of drying blood. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

His tail was caked with blood, and his struggles made new blood flow from his wound. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I felt the blood drain from my face and I forced myself to take a slow, deep breath through my nose to calm myself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But here was a flesh and blood man, belching and laughing and sweating in poems. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Crick holds them up like a curiosity, then sets them on the tray along with our blood samples. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Curzon was stronger and told me not to fret, for he was not coughing up blood and his bowels were in fine working order. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the blood drain from my face, leaving behind a prickly chill. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

With clumsy fingers I prized open the hand that held the wicking and saw it had blood on it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Count’s frozen face was petrified and ashen and the blood still poured down the parallel cuts. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The decoction cooled rapidly in the thin air, and as soon as it was at blood heat, she poured it carefully into a metal beaker and carried it to the rear of the cave. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The gurgle of blood on a man’s breath when his lung is torn by the jagged end of a broken rib. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s dark, there’s blood on my face, and the mosquito could easily sit and drink without injecting. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

If you happened to cut yourself with it, it would go through your skin without resistance, as if your skin were air—and it would split individual blood cells as it went through your finger. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been shaken about so much that her head had crashed into the gunwale, but she was already moving, and there was no blood. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As the dark blood began to drip, he drew it into the shape of a leaping fox. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And a snapshot of me...lying on the ground—is that gooey spot blood on my arm? Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“You know, mingle some blood. That’s symbolic of what we going to be about over here in this strange land.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Fight me, and I’ll show you what dragon blood can do.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

They might pass off pig blood as their own. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

"That our arcana—not magical abilities, since there's nothing magical about them—lie within our blood." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was lying on the bench by the window and it had been cleaned because there was no blood on the spikes. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Luke dropped to his knees, blood coming out of his ear. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They were quick on their feet, stole every stealable base at least once, and were clearly out for blood. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

With a handful of moss, I polish the blood from my silver weapons. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine. I got cut up a little, but the blood is mostly Nelly’s. It jumped on her. Killed her about two miles outside town, past the Oldstone Bridge.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had his hand pressed against his forehead, trying to stop a trickle of blood from running down his face. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The storm had arrived ahead of schedule, and Donovan’s florid face drained of blood as he pointed a shaking finger. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“So the blood on the gaff was not the defendant’s?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The only offering in front of Sima was the drain and the threat of a little river of blood winding its way across the floor toward it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I looked her over, but I couldn’t find any blood. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

That’s when I saw my booger finger was covered in blood. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It is red, raw, and covered by a thin cake of dried blood. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The intestines may fill up completely with blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed not to notice that there was blood everywhere and three Witchlings slumped by the window in various states of injury. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“If there is bad blood between you and them,” said I, to soften it off a little. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Musoke abandoned his efforts to give his patient a blood transfusion for fear that the patient would bleed to death out of the small hole in his arm. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to see architecture as the blood sport that it truly was. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He held the body open for her and clamped blood vessels, handing her tools when she asked for them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared down at the red spot of blood as it spread through the paper fibers. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His ivory robe held not a single splatter of blood. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Those jewels had been purchased with the sweat and blood and sorrow of girls like her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The direwolf's eyes burned red as embers as his teeth nipped lightly at the soft skin of the boy's throat, just enough to draw blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t pay a nickel to have my blouse washed,” says another girl, who had made Piper promise her blouse wouldn’t come back with one single drop of blood on it. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was still covered in blood, but my father didn’t seem to notice and gave me a big hug. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Methodically, enthusiastically, one after the next, Thor killed the giants of the waste, until the earth ran black and red with their blood. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was the otak, its fine short fur all clogged with blood and its small body light and stiff and cold in his hands. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I feel my shoe soften, blood flows into it, it grows warm, it becomes a skin. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t get the blood on the... rug or Johnny will see it.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Not the wafer and the wine, but the flesh and the blood, vibrant and alive, and vibrant even when stooped, ancient and withered. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Márez blood draws them away from home and parents, Gabriel,” she said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the faint taste of blood in my mouth, I jumped out of the sliding door, taking in the sight of the van. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She almost expected to feel warm blood, but there was none. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Not for blood shed and a wounded hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was the best, they told him; some men didn’t like to feel the quiver of the man they were killing; some men got sick when they smelled the blood. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He might have given that duty to the recruits, but they would need to be blooded soon enough. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Both excitement and anxiety warmed his skin, pumping blood hard and fast through his veins and making it harder and harder to keep still. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

That madman Jose Mondragon was going to gun them down in cold blood because they didn’t have a single bullet in the house. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Javier curled into himself; his brown hands jerked up to his chest, and blood squirted out between his fingers. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I ran over to Needles and almost backed away again—he was lying there in a spreading puddle of his own blood. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I watched it quiver, the blood pulsing through it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gash in her hand and a palm full of blood. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There was a smear of blood across his face. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was one last-minute reprieve of a bodyguard when a witness shouted testimony just as the vise was pinching blood. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry felt the blood drain out of his face. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The nurses were watching the relays, our blood pressure and all. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Guys, remember at the Wolf House? Our favorite ice princess, Khione? She talked about spilling Jason’s blood, how it would taint the place for generations. Maybe demigod blood has some kind of power.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His great shadow had lain across her since the hour of her birth, when she came forth amidst blood and storm into a world where she no longer had a place. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One of them made a passing attempt at covering up the large blood­stains by kicking dirt over them. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had only been a matter of time until the blood began to flow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

You hold a gourd next to the cow’s neck, and the blood pours into the gourd. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is power in a king’s blood,” the old maester had warned, “and better men than Stannis have done worse things than this.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The girl was unconscious, and the boy’s hands were covered in blood. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The doctors thought that Thunder had some kind of terrible blood disease. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Remember you, when Sandwich arrived in the Underland the crawlers had been here for countless generations. No doubt they will remain when all thought of warm blood has passed,” said Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Viserys began to laugh, until his jaw fell away from his face, smoking, and blood and molten gold ran from his mouth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I can feel the heat of your fingers, which is the heat of your blood pulsing through your veins. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He came all unsuspecting and Jason struck him down and his dark blood dyed his sister’s silvery robe as she shrank away. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the stories we have, however, concern two gods, Odin and his son Thor, and Odin’s blood brother, a giant’s son called Loki, who lives with the Aesir in Asgard. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

A fact further diffusing potential problems of conflict resolution in tribes is that almost everyone is related to everyone else, by blood or marriage or both. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Golden blood, immortal ichor, spewed from the wound, making a waterfall taller than a skyscraper. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

That arm dangled oddly from her body, dark blood gushing like a river. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Harry Potter, do you know what unicorn blood is used for?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

And I watch these girls, my blood, my family, and wonder if there is room for me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The handkerchief turned red, but the flow of blood slowed down. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I already saw the damage I did when he walked in—one eye shut, a cut on his lip, spots of dried blood on his swollen forehead. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but there’s been some had blood, if you know what I mean.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Whatever the holdup is, I can't watch him lose any more blood. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

"You think you seen something? Hell, you ought to been over on Lenox about two hours ago. You know that stud Ras the Destroyer? Well, man, he was spitting blood." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pounding started up in my ears, as if my blood pressure had shot up above normal, which is what Mum says happens to her when Kat drives her distracted. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, ma’am, lots and lots a blood coming out... Do he know how to get here?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I twist the cord tighter, my fingertip turning purple with backed-up blood. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Gabriel prayed to be delivered from blood guiltiness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I don’t feel pretty—I feel stained by all the blood, always anxious it might soak through my skirt. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

McCormick nevertheless volunteered to go there to try to collect some human blood and bring the strain back alive to Atlanta. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dais is strewn with bodies and blood. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He slaps my face, and his clunky gold signet ring splits my lip, and blood pours down my chin. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He checked out my eyes, took my blood pressure, listened to my heart, then asked my mom to step out of the room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The nurse—short with curly hair and a clownish face—reaches to the hooks behind her and unfurls a blood pressure gauge. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

A glass vial shatters on the floor, spilling thick blood that forms the shape of a grinning death’s head. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We trade places then, and I go three times in a row, till the world looks upside down and tilted and I feel the blood pumping hard in my veins. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“O brave new world,” he began, then suddenly interrupted himself; the blood had left his cheeks; he was as pale as paper. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

His long golden beak sank out of sight and a sudden shower of dark blood spattered the floor. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Steam rising from an open belly, rich with the smells of blood and meat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The blood seeping into his throat choked him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Through my teary eyes, I watch the blood squeeze through my fingers. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I had Hassan hold the string and sucked the blood dry, blotted my finger against my jeans. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at Diego’s face, saw the blood above his right eyebrow. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I wonder if that means that Spackle blood got into my blood when Aaron stabbed me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He guzzled some red liquid, which thankfully tasted like watered-down wine, not blood or poison. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Lady Melisandre is not part of my command. You are. I won’t have bad blood between the king’s men and my own.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was bending over their intestines, inhaling fumes from a pool of Marburg blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few drops of blood fell to the earth in a circle and vanished in the dirt. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I recalled him as a grizzled old man whose low mariner’s cap and dark coat were perpetually stained with blood and grease. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Since Garfield didn't lose much blood, he wouldn't need a transfusion. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And the ends of hay are like needles, sharp enough to draw blood. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I feel the blood drain from my face. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

One by one, my knuckles began to swell with bright drops of blood that poured down my hand. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I remembered a worrisome course in the Victorian novel where woman after woman died, palely and nobly, in torrents of blood, after a difficult childbirth. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

As Mrs. Liuzzo turned to look at them, one Klansman drew his pistol, put his arm out the car window, and shot Liuzzo twice in the face, killing her instantly and spewing blood over Moton. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is bright red blood in the whites, and the whites are yellow, and all around is bruised and puffy. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have stitches on the back of my right hand and my two feet where they put in the soldier’s blood. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

"There are similarities. But with hunting, there's blood at the end." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I told him I could not spare that much time and we decided to try accelerated treatments, with constant blood tests to see how my system tolerated the medication. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poet sewed a lot of leather and would seam it cleaner than I could, but if blood and flesh bothered the old man, it would only make things worse. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

If the green brightened into a hotter glow, that would signify that his blood was inhabited by Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her big toe was crushed and oozing blood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

A flurry of gunshots, a spray of blood, and the wet crack of a body hitting the water. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

With his free hand, he’d squirt the bird’s chest with alcohol, and plunge a syringe needle into the chicken’s heart to draw blood. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then Selitos bowed his head and wept hot tears of blood upon the earth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As the bronze man lifted a pointed crag to hurl it at the Argo he grazed his ankle and the blood gushed forth until he sank and died. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head, flushed with blood, ached more with each hour. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They checked her heart and took her blood pressure but didn’t do much to treat her actual illness. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Old Dan, spewing blood from a dozen wounds, leaped high in the air. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the blood of the dragon, and the fire was in her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Where the blade had been, up from the small slash in the fabric, blood pulsed in arterial spurts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Anya shuddered at the thought of her friend’s blood in the stone bowl. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The bonobo barely noticed as Patrice took his blood, he was so fixated on my mom. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Giants, the fourth race of monsters, sprang up from his blood. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ulster Scots saw themselves, and their descendants see themselves, as true and authentic patriots, entitled by blood sacrifice to independence and Indigenous land. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of fresh blood was heavy in the air, like wet, hot metal. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Dried blood caked his teeth and the corners of his lips. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“You don’t ever get over that, saying good-bye to a child. No matter how it happens. That’s your flesh and blood.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And if not, it may turn to blood and carnage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Every last one of those who’d stayed behind and fought was covered in Griever sludge and human blood, their clothes ripped to shreds. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I curse you. Three times, I curse you. As you’ve murdered me, may your hands always be stained with blood. May death be your only companion. May you—” He breaks off abruptly, coughing. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After wiping away the blood, he wrung out the cloth into a bowl. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When black blood was money, the savvy businessman knew to open the vein. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She took a chair by me, washed the blood from my face, and, with a mother’s tenderness, bound up my head, covering the wounded eye with a lean piece of fresh beef. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

She thought she might have an iron deficiency anemia: tired blood. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls, the columns, even the ceiling, were vermilion, the color of raw meat or dried blood. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The blood was runnin' all over my clothes and the flies was after me, and I went back inside to try and stop it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

From where they stood there was no sign of blood or torn flesh. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had listened to his brother Tom and their cousin Eb, the two younger of the grown boys in the household, and their excitement had found its way into his blood. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say it’s to cover the scent of blood from the mouth sores that will never heal. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The windows are boarded up with that same “black owned” tag on them, like it’s lamb’s blood protecting the store from the plague of death. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Send the empty cans down a trash chute, pocket the full ones for later, flip sofa cushions smeared with blood, wipe traces of gel from the tiles. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

My fingernails scrape at the dried blood the boy from District 9 coughed into my face. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t one of the ones where blood went everywhere. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When he got close he could see that Pima had taken a cut to her face and blood ran freely from her forehead even as she worked with her mother to secure the lines. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

An explosion in my head and blood in my mouth. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The god was horrorstruck to see the blood gush forth and the lad, deathly pale, fall to the ground. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sand glittered gold, the colour of ichor - godly blood. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A rectangle of glass with blood smeared on it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The body was already covered up, but the puddle of blood around what was left of Stan’s head kept growing. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Life and death went hand in hand amongst the horselords, and a sprinkling of blood was thought to bless a marriage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Underneath her, across the sheet, is a great splotch of fresh blood, spreading out like bright red wings to either side of her. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She did not cry or wail as some of the other women did, but Afi’s face was covered in tears, which mixed with the blood on her face and lips. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And easy, you say, giggling, then dozing back off Bad Your white blood cell count is elevated, the doctor says. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When they were bathed in blood they tied her to a post, drove a stake through her heart, and burned her. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My family's been in Louisiana for decades and my mother has French blood, believe it or not. My skin might look like coffee-no-cream, but I've got some au lait in here somewhere." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes people have more will to live. Or you don’t hit them right and they don’t lose their blood fast enough. Sometimes they just don’t stop the way you want them to.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The edge of his toga was lined with the crimson of a senator or a praetor, but the stripe rippled like a river of blood. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I will speak the language of animals and wipe their blood from my teeth. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“That looks like Mercurochrome to me,” Ammu said, of his inordinately bright blood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My fingers leaped to my shoulder, finding wet cloth but no blood. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And again he began to pelt toward the sound of the bell, his blood as warm as the swollen, spring-tied earth. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

No glass, no blood stains on the floor, not even a whiff of leftover funk. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Blood smeared the half-man’s muzzle and more black blood ran sticky down his chest, slashes from machete cuts. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I twisted the knot until the blood flow stopped. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The weather doesn’t suck your blood,” I say, expecting her to have a comeback, but she just shakes her head. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

There was a swath of blood on his brow. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

If he was found guilty of capturing a Sun Maiden’s heart, he would be hung from his feet until the blood rushing to his head made it burst from the pressure.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

A heart attack is when some of the muscles in the heart stop getting blood and die. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One sister might have died had not Woody provided blood by direct transfusion. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

My blood could start to pound if it wanted to; let it. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Arise and go forth so that the Tonton Macoutes will stop walking in ways wet with our blood. “Arise and go forth so that the criminals will stop walking upon us. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have resolved to dedicate my whole life to Chairman Mao and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. I will give every drop of blood in my body to work to liberate all of mankind.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I couldn’t help but wonder how much blood could actually be contained by the 160-pound sack of skin I walked around in. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was trying to breathe shallowly, so that the blood would not beat so in his skull. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Say what you want. She will be my bride, Lord Connington will see to it. I trust him as much as if he were my own blood.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Where the Hound's face was not sticky with blood, it was pale as milk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Clasped in his fingers was only a single strand of Nuwa's hair, a tiny drop of blood falling from it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Resenting the blood spots, the new hips, the hair. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is wearing a cap like the men behind the swinging double doors and a paper surgical mask over his mouth—my heart sinks when I see a drop of blood on the mask. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And I’m just warning you that if I’m going to be honest, I have to begin the story with my Baba Haji, even if the blood might shock you. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The blood was not pulsing out any longer and there was something black and bubbly in her mouth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’ll need to bring your son to a lab for blood work three days from now; Dr. Purow has all the details. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Liselin!” she scolds, holding up my scapular stained with the blood of something or other, some cat I have skinned. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yvonne said to me, “Lolly, I am not sure that you deserve me hauling all this yick-yack through the snow and up seven floors, but I love you like my own blood, so...” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The blood drained from the faces of all three children. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The National Hospital of Iceland, where Bobby died of renal failure, hadn’t saved any of his blood. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I was lucky. My doctors say it just missed my blood vessel here.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She took a jagged breath, one that erased the feeling of their blood on her skin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe my blood’s gotten thin, a weakness Father used to accuse us of when we complained of the chill winters in north Georgia. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a pitiful sight—the half of his body that had lain in the rut was black and soaking, while the other was streaked and stained with blood. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I wasn’t looking for a compliment. Sorry. I’m curious what he’s up to now. Doubt I’d recognize him since he had so much blood on his face.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Pa saying, “There’s so much blood,” like he spoke from his sleep. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was no blood, but my anger was fierce. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

One day the system would collapse in blood. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I suppose maybe they’ll even add a bit of scandalous excitement with a blood libel accusation, or bring in some Cossacks so we can re-create the Khmelnytsky Uprising. Now, that would be an attraction.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Millard was kneeling in the water, dazed, blood running down his torso. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Yossarian watched him tinkering and felt certain he would be compelled to murder him in cold blood if he did not stop. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Suddenly her eyes glazed and her back arched like a spring and the blood started to her cheeks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fly continued to bite, and the dwarf could see nothing but blood. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“As you wish,” he answered, through a mouthful of blood, but the big knight was already gone, his boots pounding on the deckboards. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Hold the basin right against her arm. The pestilence boils within her blood and must be drained.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s not carry the analogy too far. I’ll be your matchmaker instead. I’H help you toward a proper patron. I know everyone with blood or money for fifty miles, so it shouldn’t be that hard.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His blood pressure was surging, and inside his car coat his body began to drip with sweat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I stared at her hands, the wet blood. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Most likely it entered their blood through contact with the lungs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stench was awful: a mix of blood and sweat and urine. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Flies buzzed easily around his face: his lips and eyes, the blood on his head, the tear in his stomach. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the hospital, an Amity woman in a yellow shirt with clean fingernails took my mother’s blood pressure and set her bone with a smile. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The blade still has dried blood smeared on it here and there, my blood, Spackle blood, but the rest of it still shines, shimmering and flickering, flickering and shimmering. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

There was a waterfall of blood on his chin. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The heart scrambling to deliver oxygenated blood, the mind scrambling to unravel the situation. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The younger child, Monty, age six, noticed blood on the ceiling. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, there was a copious flow of blood. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The fight lasted less than a minute before the fat boy was on the ground, his whole body shaking as blood leaked through his shattered helm and between his pudgy fingers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Jumper had smelled deer blood plenty of times, so I guess it was the size of the bull that scared him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it her imagination, or did they feel wet and sticky, like blood? In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had been testing his and Geisbert’s blood all along, and he wondered if the virus would suddenly show up in it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father then threw the chicken aside, and its blood splattered everywhere. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The leeches wriggled slowly between her fingers as she plucked them carefully from the lord's body, their pale bodies moist to the touch and distended with blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He clasped her wrist; blood was pulsing there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

An image of blood gleaming on the metal blade in the glare of the furnace came before his eyes and fear rose in him hotly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The first blood of the day spotted the sand. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Well—there was blood smeared everywhere. On the walls, on the floor.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

On top of this we added piles of feathers, and finally the blood, which now was as thick as house paint. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

What I saw made my blood run cold. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood up and pulled a grubby piece of linen from her sleeve, spat on it, and reached up as high as she could and scrubbed the blood from Bod’s forehead. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Luke asked the doctor, and the doctor, shaking his head, said, “I would swear that it was blood, and yet to get so much blood one would almost have to...” and then was abruptly quiet. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel the blood draining out of my head. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Queen Mab’s crown was magically and wondrously wrought so that it passes only from one blood relation to another, in an unbroken line. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My keys and pocket change were scattered across the sidewalk with Vega’s blood. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

At one point Willum and two strange doctors appeared and proceeded to poke Matts stomach and take his blood. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They put their trust in strength of arm, in valor and bravery and blood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The three butchers were daubed with sweat and blood, and they were absolutely miserable. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I came to Renfield’s room I found him lying on the floor on his left side in a glittering pool of blood. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Black blood wasn’t black; black skin wasn’t even black. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When he moved away, a warm trickle of blood slid down my neck. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

"If I were spending a month alone," Hannah said yesterday, "I would start a meditation practice. It's clinically proven to lower blood pressure and boost brain activity. It even helps your immune system." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But the wound did not knit, did not heal, and the blood kept pouring down her face and neck, hot and thick. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I made Re’lar before I left. I know enough so that with a little blood, you can never hide from me. I can dowse you out anywhere.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Heaven knew what kind of infection you could get from a whip kept limber with oil and blood. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

My blood had been replaced three times over. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“So if I drank your blood, I could talk to birds?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to drown in blood or muddy water. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

People were packed outside the kitchen craning to see into the back courtyard. “. . . jumped out the bathroom window ...” I heard. “. .. through the awning of the courtyard blood ...” I looked around in a daze. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered reading a quote from a newspaper journalist that stuck with me: "Where there is blood, there is ink." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

That was clever of him,- the blood did not show so badly against the red cloth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Such voyages were the life blood of the Republic. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt the urge to yank at his new beard and pull out hair and draw blood. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You—you owe me a blood debt. Your men gave up Darin—” “And paid for it with their lives. You can’t ask for more than that.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was not the liquor of the moment that gave him the kick—but the reaction of the first swallow to all the alcohol which had saturated his blood during these last months. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The troll was concussed, blinded by blood, and lame. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The blood was watery, flowing from Mama, flowing from my eyes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I must admit I felt the old surge of love and oratory and I haven’t a drop of Galician blood. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When die gold cloaks dragged off die dead man, he left a trail of bright blood across the stone floor. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was so silent I could hear my pulse in my ears, pumping red-hot burning blood into my face. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There were two angry bumps on either side of his forehead and blood trailed from his nostrils. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The image we all remember is the little spray of blood from the holes, like two little waterfalls, just before he clutched them and fell over. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The hooded figure raised its head and looked right at Harry — unicorn blood was dribbling down its front. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Now there was blood on the cobbled streets. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My blood was racing, and I wished I could slow it, sensing that this must make everything so much more difficult — the thudding of my pulse in my veins. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The blood and the bone covered the inside of the canopy, splashing Cora’s filthy shift. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She was more conscious than ever of the rhythm of the blood in her veins, but she felt oddly disengaged from her breath. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was tall and spare, wearing a long chainmail hauberk and gauntlets of lobstered steel, but he'd lost his helm and blood ran down into his eyes from a gash across his forehead. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Not noticed the hurt that was not linked to the color of his skin, or the blood that beat beneath it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I am the blood of the dragon," she whispered aloud as she followed, trying to keep her courage up. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Blast his father’s blood—he is too changeable, too unpredictable. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Their grip was solid, and there was the blood from Carl’s cut palm in it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It lay there in the moonlight, covered with blood. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence that follows is shattered by Poppet Murray’s screaming as the pool of blood on the ground spreads beneath her white boots. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I’m sure my blood pressure is through the roof in this moment. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Arturo, family is not just blood. Family is friendship. Family is community.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And they say if your blood gets too cold, you die. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

When he was released in the morning he immediately went downtown, a walking advertisement for everyone to see, “eyes all swollen, face bruised, blood all over his shirt.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Change that nasty shirt,” Mom ordered when she spotted the crusty bib of dried blood across my chest. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The memory of my youth was such a surprising relief from all the hatred and despair, blood and drugs that surrounded me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

That Cherokee blood must have skipped over me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Teeth were missing, and his mouth was full of blood. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wide, humorless smile reappeared, made macabre by the blood running down his face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It turned out that a large part of the hospital’s staff had had direct contact with either Monet or Musoke or with blood samples and fluids that came from the two patients. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard the blood whoosh through my ears. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be brothers in spear, just as we are brothers in blood.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But as he yanked open the driver’s door, he saw blood, on the seat and on the floor. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Under their boots, the decks were slippery with the blood of the watchman, who now lay dead at the bottom of the main hatchway. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The heart was the center of everything, pumping blood to everywhere in the body, carrying oxygen to all vital parts, including the brain. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He wanted to drop the brick, wanted to be free of this warm blood that crept and grew powerful with each passing moment. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They wrapped around her, poured into her nostrils and became her blood, sanctified her spirit with their longing. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The fingers of his left hand were slimy with blood, and his right throbbed from the weight of the bucket. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

To stop the blood loss, Kelley had pinched off an artery using a hemostat, something he wasn’t officially rated to use. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

After all, doctors had been drawing blood for centuries for diagnostic testing, and aside from the pain of a needle stick, there seemed to be no risk. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

All of this is more frightening, even, than the splotch of blood. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I curled on my stomach, heaving until I retched up a thin clear bile marbled with blood. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t able to go to school for weeks on end when his white blood cell counts were low, so I was basically his sole source of entertainment. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d just stood there, doing nothing, red juice soaking through his shirt like blood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He soon reaches the site of my attack, must see the blood. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

How could I just kill him in cold blood? The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

As blood trickled from the man’s nose, C.P. returned calmly to his car and drove off. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They wore bright red uniforms that were the color of blood, and it was obvious just by the physical look of them that Permian hadn’t faced a team like this all year. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blood from her face cuts filled her eyes so she could not see, could only smell the familiar odor of cooked flesh. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

"You cut a pig's throat to let the blood out," said Jack, "otherwise you can't eat the meat" "Why didn't you.?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Let us be dissatisfied, and men will recognize that out of one blood God made all men to dwell upon the face of the earth. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It flopped around, useless and asleep, until the blood began to fill it again. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

With a quick motion Emily stabbed it, and while Shirley stared at the blood oozing out, her friend performed the same operation on her own finger. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She must have been running, because she wore a workout outfit that was much more revealing than Rowan needed at the moment—it drained far too much blood from his brain. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The blood on her cheeks was not hers. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Slow green blood was leaking out between her boards. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Artemis could hear the blood pumping in his ears. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

A plush red carpet cuts through the middle of the Receiving Hall like a thick river of blood. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A gash above one eye had sent a wash of blood down across the Hound's old bum scars, masking half his face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Among the goods listed—spice and silk and the like—was an entry for svytagor blood candy. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My ankles and the back of my hand are throbbing from the tubes bringing in the blood and I don’t care about boys praying for me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And while they complain in lower voices, about one another, they are joined by blood and circumstance and shared experience. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

In his right ear gleamed a garnet cut in the shape of a drop of blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’s come out the other side of Malesherbes not much worse for wear—sure, under his robes he’s spattered with blood, and I imagine he’s a bit worn-out. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I wipe the blood from my face and hear my screams bounce back to my ears. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Because one has a bunch of ketchup, and the other has a bunch of blood. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I wish it was possible for me to show you the sea bottom in those days—the black bodies, the blood, the bones broken by boots and clubs! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a second that contained an hour, I stared at my brother, watching the blood trickle out of his temple and down his right cheek, pouring over his ear and onto his white T-shirt. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then, looking at Leon, Goober saw the teacher as if in technicolor, blood beating in his cheeks, his moist eyes like specimens in laboratory test tubes. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to look like the people who shared her blood. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Before I leave the bathroom, I pinch my cheeks hard to bring blood to the surface of my skin. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He hesitates, looks at me like I have just asked him to give me a pint of blood rather than asked him a simple question. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The boy might have been as comely as his sister, but the broken lip, unfocused eyes, and blood trickling through his matted hair made it hard to be certain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Here lies one, she thought gracefully, whose name was writ in blood; is it possible that I am not quite coherent at this moment? The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

His urine and blood did not react to the Ebola test. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flinched as the lancet flashed and blood from Mother’s arm poured into the basin. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is my promise to you, sealed with my blood: if you ever call me to help you, I will come.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was no scorpion in it, only a beetle stunned by the cold, but he gritted his teeth against an imagined sting and felt venom bloom power in his blood. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As if his blood was boiling, as if his bones were on fire. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

He tugged at them, but when a spot of blood appeared at the end of one he shrieked and ran up my torso. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The smile slid from Slughorn’s face as quickly as the blood from his walls.“Of course not,” he said, looking down at Harry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

A gunshot from the SUV clipped him in the chest and sent an explosive spray of blood into the air. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“American blood is being spilled. But those people are living up there in peace. Why can’t we leave them the hell alone?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I have lived in constant fear of being seen and hunted down: the sound of pebbles sliding on the rocks, a twig snapping, even the wind in the leaves can make my blood run cold. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see where he was hit, but I saw all the blood on the bed and it didn’t take a whole lot of figuring to see he wasn’t breathing. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been in Bolivia when a hot agent called Machupo had broken out, and he had seen a young woman die, covered with blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glucose levels were monitored by testing urine, which could only measure glucose present in the blood eight hours earlier. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why all this blood was needed he didn’t say. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His eyes were full of water, his mouth was full of blood, and his head throbbed horribly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"Only blood can wash out blood," he declared. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We held hands when we walked down the gingerbread path into the forest, blood dripping from our fingers. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

She crawled away from Cain, her blood and saliva pooling onto the ground. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Telemakhos and the herdsman scraped the packed earth floor with hoes, but made the women carry out all blood and mire. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horror of it, the unfairness and treachery of almost everyone he’d ever known, made Matt’s blood pound in his ears. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear his voice now in the crook of my neck, reverberating through my bones and the pounding pulse of my blood. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was as if his hand had been holding his blood from flowing. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The waves grew redder from his blood, but this time he rolled over and was waiting for the charge. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he rubbed his hands together, to get the blood circulating and to warm them up. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She blew through special machines, had a blood sample taken to measure her capacity for absorbing oxygen, and underwent a chest exam. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

One wolf sank his teeth into the horse’s neck, and another bit into Pol’s thigh, releasing a thick stream of red blood. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t wood of this sort absorb blood, doctor?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had expected that the monkey’s interior would be a lake of blood, but no, this monkey looked all right, it had not bled into itself. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seen the people murdered in cold blood, the men and women, and the children, dying, the animals murdered or left to starve. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rarely attended training academies or steeped themselves in the emerging scientific methods of detection, such as the analysis of fingerprints and blood patterns. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Even from that distance we could see the terrible angle of his neck, the shoe turned the wrong way, the trickle of blood from nose and mouth. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She brought her mouth close to his ear and willed the blood to stop streaming out of him, to turn back, to stay inside him where it belonged. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

One of his captors slipped and fell on the blood that had spilled out of Erik’s nose. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually it takes three people to get the blood from a cow. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m walking away faster now, my blood jumping and Manchee’s getting excited from the roar of my Noise. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He went into a long coughing fit, then spit a wad of blood into the dirt. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Yunkai’i claimed that she fed her dragons on human flesh and bathed in the blood of virgins to keep her skin smooth and supple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You must have Cherokee blood,” she said of the straightness, when all I had was Big Ma’s hot comb and Mrs.’s curling expertise. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I knew that in the veins of these hounds flowed the purest of breeded blood. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there were no blood vessels, no rib cage, no muscles holding up my heart to where it beats in my chest, it would’ve fallen out onto the floor. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And every man who signs with them is another sword for Yunkai, another blade meant to drink the blood of my bride-to-be. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The floor of the trailer was streaked with blood and brains. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I wash his bandages, rinsing out the blood and ooze, and hang them to dry. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He could feel the blood running down the inside of his near foreleg. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down and saw that one of my friends had blood coming out of his back and mouth. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even as they sat and stood, as if suddenly frozen, it was answered by another cry, fainter and further off, but no less chilling to the blood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her muscles were paralyzed and the blood had long since ceased to flow. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My forehead hit something that gave me a violent bump and I felt blood on my face but I crawled on in and lay flat. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Thick and numbing, like an animal’s den, a mix of blood and scorched hair and excrement and the sweet-sour odor of moldering flesh—the stink of the kill. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cecil shouted for the lieutenants to get brooms and for every officer to clean the blood off himself or fellow officer. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then blood crept outward in widening circles of pink on the newspapers, spreading quickly now. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Moreau pauses to drink from his goblet, letting the blood drip down his chin. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I was filthy and damp and covered with blackened crusty blood that clotted on my skin and in my hair. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They spun lazily in the warm breeze, tempting honest ration-buyers with glimpses of ripe, naked women lying in pools of fake blood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only Catholics can eat Jesus’s body and drink Jesus’s blood, right?” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I felt the blood drain from my face. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Her lip is split, mouth and teeth full of blood, her eye swelling, and she’s got a knot on her forehead that must be from hitting the floor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They were not my blood, but even so, I never harmed them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sight of her blood on his pale skin made her shudder, and yet she felt herself lean toward him instinctively, wanting to close the space between them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a stone In my abuela\\ kitchen, A stone which Grinds Fresno chiles And runs with The blood of tomatoes. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Greek name for Death. Now may I continue without interruptions? The goddess said, ‘The blood of Pylos is strong in this child from his mother’s side. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I’d never forget the gush of blood that hit the surface when the sharks jerked him down. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pig killing was fascinating, with the screaming and the blood, but it made Jody’s heart beat so fast that it hurt him. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed himself up from his knees, winced, and reached out for the picket gate, not caring much whether he got blood on Mrs. Cobb’s grandfather’s work. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“My son wants the book Max und Moritz for his birthday,” a soldier repeated, eyes closed, blood leaking from the sides of his mouth. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Before her hands could get the different but equally tough skin of a laundress, her knuckles split with the rubbing and wringing, and ran blood into the rinse tubs. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because, Cooter, their poison gets into your blood too quick. Within hours you commence swelling till your skin looks soft and rotten as a ripe peach left in the noonday sun!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He would be dead before help reached him, to be sure, his blood soaking into the ground to feed the heart tree. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Reagan lost more than half his body's blood. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He leans over, head on his knees, and brings up an incredible quantity of blood from his stomach and spills it onto the floor with a gasping groan. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I would die on the ground there with a mouth full of dirt and blood and a white man cursing and lecturing as he beat me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I think of the thing which flew at my throat this morning, hanging its black and scarlet visage over the nest of my dove, my blood curdles—” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

You know how you feel when all the blood rushes to your head, like if you hang upside down and turn right-side up too quickly? The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The skin and eyeballs turned yellow, as red blood cells were destroyed, causing the bile pigment bilirubin to accumulate in the body; nose, gums, and intestines began bleeding; and the patient vomited stale, black blood. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Because of my recent illness and my history of high blood pressure, I had been put on a strict low-cholesterol diet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will kill you slowly!” she growled, her eyes and nose watering, blood dripping from her cheeks. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The moment something startled me or whenever I got overexcited or spooked about any little thing blood would spray out of my nose holes like dragon flames. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s the blood of the Foul Fiends of the forest of Malesherbes.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I couldn't figure out how to deal with the blood racing through me—the storm. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The blood inside her is aggravated, trying to get out. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

German by blood, he renounced his race when it came to its cooking. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The smell of roses and blood has grown stronger now that only a desk separates us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Leale’s fingers probed for the source of the blood and found it behind the left ear: a neat, round hole, about the diameter of a man’s fingertip, clotted with a plug of coagulated blood. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The main question was whether any blood had penetrated the last glove to the cut. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their discovery: when people are given a small stipend for donating blood rather than simply being praised for their altruism, they tend to donate less blood. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

One side of his head was a mass of blood. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see where the others went, but I know when I see blood drip between the rungs of the ladder that it was not a good place. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

If their blood remained negative and they didn’t develop other symptoms, then there was little chance they could infect anyone else. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if you cut out the skin, the ink will rise again from the blood. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Like you, soldiering was in his blood. And like you, he struggled with his destiny.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In his memory, Baba’s body was broken, and there was too much blood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The moment his eyes fell upon Ron, all other concerns fled Harry’s mind, for blood drenched the whole of Ron’s left side and his face stood out, grayish-white, against the leaf-strewn earth. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The salt from my tears mingles with the blood on my lips. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Then she, waiting, caught from him the heat of his blood and she bent over and slipped, like a flower crumpling upon its stalk, to the ground, and she clasped his feet and lay there. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But the old man’s blood was running backward in his veins and God wouldn’t reconsider. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“These half- bloods have done Olympus a great service. Would any here deny that?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

No blood followed as Gwydion ripped the weapon free; the Cauldron-Born shook himself once, without a grimace, and moved again to the attack. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Ah, young sir, the Szekelys—and the Dracula as their heart’s blood, their brains, and their swords—can boast a record that mushroom growths like the Hapsburgs and the Romanoffs can never reach. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Every mom the sun rose upon fresh corpses, with harpies drawn in blood on the bricks beside them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You want to know your name, boy, before I spill your blood on the stone?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I hear our blood rushing above the waterfall sound. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

When the Dean had said “two extra semesters,” my blood ran cold. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I read about the blusher mushroom, a pale fungus that blooms with beads of a red liquid that looks uncomfortably like blood. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I want to keep cool and collected, but the blood is rising to my face. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His procrastination would have disastrous effects, if you believe in that sort of thing, which, some days, when the old Greek blood is running high, I do. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I can barely hear him above the blood thudding in my cars. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few spots of blood clung to the collar of his white dress shirt. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Many are dripping blood from their arms and legs where shrapnel sliced through their skin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I know you mean well, Stanley, but face it. Zero's too stupid to learn to read. That's what makes his blood boil. Not the hot sun." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Saying these words makes my blood bum, but I force myself to go on. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As far as you know, was there any quarrel or bad blood between your master and M. MacQueen?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now the blood was in my face and I could move, getting to my knees as someone out of the crowd was helping me to stand. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would’ve sucked if she heard something weird in my heart, or if my temperature or blood pressure was high, and then I couldn’t go home. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Whenever he scored lower than that, he’d dig his pencil into his arm, dragging it back and forth until he saw blood. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The host convulsed like a fetus, kicked with new blood. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kissed him on the mouth, I bit his lower lip as hard as I could; I could taste his blood in my mouth. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

What good is peace if it must be purchased with the blood of little children? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“My blood ... friend’s blood .. “I don’t plan on doing much bleeding,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They get all excited, tell me stuff like how her cells helped make my blood pressure medicines and antidepression pills and how all this important stuff in science happen cause of her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Some were subjected to unmatched blood transfusions, limb amputations, or operations without anesthesia. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The words in my textbooks kept turning into blood each time I read them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The captain swore polyglot—very polyglot—polyglot with bloom and blood; but he could do nothing. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

One of Kaztauskis’s fellow workers had a different way of looking at it: “They get all the blood out of those cattle and all the work out of us men.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I bit at my lip and tasted blood. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I wanted the blood of the one who had stripped me of power thirteen years ago ... for the lingering protection his mother once gave him would then reside in my veins too. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The cheap, stiff bristles hurt his gums, and he spit some blood into the basin. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It breaks my heart to see her so pitiful, with just the top of her cabin showing, and a shine of oil spreading like blood on the water. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She gazed at him with new approval when she stopped, the lush, responsive tissues of her dark face turning darker still and blooming somnolently with a swelling and beautifying infusion of blood. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Grendel tore his victim limb from limb, picking off arms and legs, lapping up the blood with a greedy tongue, taking big bites to crunch up bones and swallow gory mouthfuls of flesh. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scythe looked weary, and his robes were splattered with blood. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

With all the blood that runs inside of me. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

We landed in a pile of banging heads, cracking bone and blood. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When ingested by a foraging beetle grub they multiply prodigiously in its blood, causing it to turn an abnormally white color, hence the popular name, “milky disease.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In Noel’s blood, the cells had morphed, mysteriously, into shriveled, scythe-shaped crescents—“sickle cells,” as Irons later described them. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He could still see the air shimmering above the scarlet sands, smell the blood spilling from the men who’d died for their amusement. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I smash his head again with all my force and blood starts to come out of his nose and ears. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He gagged at the taste of blood and squinted into the blackness. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

David stares at me, then at the blood in the pen, then back at me again. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, it meant staining one’s hands with another man’s blood. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Outliving beauty’s outward with a mind that doth renew swifter than blood decays.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl who drowned the slaver cities in blood rather than leave strangers to their chains can scarcely abandon her own brother’s son in his hour of peril. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I stood, unable to look away from Teren, the grey shirt, the red blood, the white bone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

People clawed at their faces, sometimes drawing blood. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Laughter came from somewhere under the earth, and a voice so deep and evil it turned my blood to ice. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Aron would try to wash the blood off the rabbit, and this would take time. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The whole tavern was a mess of blood and curses, broken chairs and fists and faces. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

At the end of it all, a basin, a sponge and a small clean towel were produced by the Headmaster, and the victim was told to wash away the blood before pulling up his trousers. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

You try to scrub blood, you just gonna wind up with nasty red hands. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

A racking cough burst from his lungs, throwing a spray of blood. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They let me pass, and T rub to Lynn’s side, holding her free hand, which is sticky with blood. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, she was. She was a Ptolemy. Big family back then. They were Greek Egyptians. I’ve got a little Egyptian blood in me, too. You and me are probably related.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He could see that she told the truth, for no blood warmed her skin, and there was no pulse beating in her throat. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A surgeon will probe the exposed brain before slicing into it with a scalpel, using the path of coagulated blood to trace the path of the ball. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then he ripped open his thumbnail somehow, and after that he left smears of blood wherever he put his hand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As Silver observes, “Ten minutes without a pulse or sufficient blood oxygen levels is more than enough time to do severe neurological damage.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A trickle of blood oozed from the wound on his head. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That place is too rich for my blood,” she says, never taking her eyes off the sink she is scrubbing. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“The blood is Edward’s. I helped carry him here.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Tris stands so still, her hands dangling limply, turning red with the flush of her blood. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The pool of water quickly turned red as the blood fell from his face into the sink. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

My heart beat wildly and my blood pounded in my head. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look carefully, as the train rolls slowly past, for blood on the clothes, but I can’t see any. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is in your blood, waiting to be let go.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A pig has more royal blood than you do.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z