ensanguined

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In another minute Gordon's men copied their leader, who trotted forward with his broad hat at his knee, and I rode bareheaded with—though I had forgotten this—an ensanguined face, to greet the mistress of Bonaventure.

From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold

"I, master," and Tematau placed an ensanguined hand on mine.

From The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton 1902 by Becke, Louis

"He answered not but with a sudden hand Made bare his branded and ensanguined brow, Which was like Cain's or Christ's--oh! that it should be so!"

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

After a few more springs, the Indian suddenly wheeled, and was about to gallop back, when his eye was caught by the ensanguined object upon the rock.

From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.

Six days afterwards, the star of Napoleon Bonaparte had set for ever in the lurid and ensanguined battle clouds of Waterloo.

From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham