ensanguined

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Twin veils of covering cloud and silence thrown Across the movement and the sound of things, Make blank the night, till in the broken west The moon's ensanguined blade awhile is shown....

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton

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

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.

Not to the ensanguined field of death alone Is valor limited.

From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by Clement, J. (Jesse)

Every day for many days she drove into town and back again, closely draped in shawls, with ensanguined bandages exposed.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis