Bled

Examples

• Here Darwin observed crabs of monstrous size, with a structure which ena bled them to open the cocoanuts. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The wound which years had scarcely cicatrized bled afresh, and oh, how bitterly! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Till he was bled to death, and then he dreaded her more than anything. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Permit me to say--my heart bled for her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It must have bled considerably. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was pale, as if her pride bled inwardly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The cut bled, the pain was sharp: my terror had passed its climax; other feelings succeeded. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The Templars horse had bled much, and gave way under the shock of the Disinherited Knight's charge. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Pray hear me,' urged Mr. Pickwick, as Mr. Ben Allen fell into a chair that patients were bled in, and gave way to his pocket-handkerchief. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Gradually it drew away all his potentiality, it bled him into the dark, it weaned him of life and drew him away into the darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It has bled pretty freely,--pretty much drained him out, courage and all,--but he'll get over it, and may be learn a thing or two by it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And he, who triumphed in the world, he became more and more hollow in his vitality, the vitality was bled from within him, as by some haemorrhage. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He had banged his head as he climbed into the armored car and it had made a small cut over his eyebrow that bled down onto his face. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Twines not of them one golden thread, But for its sake a Paynim bled. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I only assisted natur, ma'am; as the doctor said to the boy's mother, after he'd bled him to death. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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