Vocabulary Word
Word: sanguinary
Definition: bloody; with much bloodshed
Definition: bloody; with much bloodshed
Sentences Containing 'sanguinary'
Well, picture to yourself a future more gloomy still certainly frightful, perhaps sanguinary.''
For was it not your fatal and sanguinary intention to destroy that son of whom M. de Morcerf was so proud?
All the sanguinary laws of Spain and Portugal are not able to keep their gold and silver at home.
All the sanguinary laws of the customs are not able to prevent the importation of the teas of the Dutch and Gottenburg East India companies; because somewhat cheaper than those of the British company.
But the factions of the Greeks were almost always violent and sanguinary; whereas, till the time of the Gracchi, no blood had ever been shed in any Roman faction; and from the time of the Gracchi, the Roman republic may be considered as in reality dissolved.
The most sanguinary are always to be found in countries where the greater part of the public revenue is in farm; the mildest, in countries where it is levied under the immediate inspection of the sovereign.
For some of these same Quakers are the most sanguinary of all sailors and whale-hunters.
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