ensanguined

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When the sun with an ensanguined glow shot upward from the ocean, his beams glanced on a dark object which lay ahead.

From Jack Buntline by Kingston, William Henry Giles

She held a carving-knife cut from a shingle, whose edge had been deeply ensanguined by poke-berry juice.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie

Where'er they looked the ensanguined plain Was strewn with myriads of the slain;990 They sought with keenly searching eyes King Jámbaván supremely wise.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

His nerves, shattered by the tremendous strain of the year, the fevers, the disillusions, the unprofitable shiftings of standpoint, painted the prospect as black as they had formerly ensanguined it.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel

"But what's been done?—let us hear," said Huckaback, as he passed a wet towel to and fro over his ensanguined features.

From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Warren, Samuel