Blooded
['blʌdɪd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Blood
(a.) Having pure blood, or a large admixture or pure blood; of approved breed; of the best stock.
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Examples
- There's a cold-blooded scoundrel! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He's a cursed white-blooded pedantic coxcomb, said Will, with gnashing impetuosity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There isn't a note in you which I don't know; and that hot little bosom couldn't play such a cold-blooded trick to save its life. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Thou hast turned out a most cold-blooded profligate, as I am told: but it might not have been thus if we had married. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The difficulty is not in getting men and women, but in getting pure-blooded Greeks. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It is a very deeply planned and cold-blooded murder. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- How can you all encourage this cold-blooded heartless creature? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He did what no red-blooded man needs lessons in doing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Gerald was in that full-blooded, gleaming state when he was most handsome. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Well, I am certainly dark, replied the poet, laughing, but I am, as it happens, a pure-blooded Englishman. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- She spoke with the cold-blooded complacency of the aged throwing earth into the grave of young hopes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Henry Crawford, ruined by early independence and bad domestic example, indulged in the freaks of a cold-blooded vanity a little too long. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
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