It is nothing less than surrender dressed up in deepest, blood-boltered hypocrisy. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Bring near the blood-boltered corpses of those hapless chiefs, foully slain by foes unworthy, with whom lay the decision of the contest. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Lucia's final collapse into full-on, blood-boltered insanity, accompanied by the fabulously weird sound of a glass harmonica, is ironically the only time she's really free of the sexual, emotional and physical brutality with which she is tyrannized by her brother, her lover and her pastor. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Thereat he grew abusive, taunting me with my mother's murder and those blood-boltered fiends. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I feel myself blood-boltered; then I look back on my cleared grass, and count myself an ally in a fair quarrel, and make stout my heart. ❋ Unknown (2005)
He made an eager grace of life and was arrested in mid-path by blood-boltered men whose name will live in infamy down the passage of the years. ❋ De Bernieres, Louis (2003)
Sharpe tried to count the little bodies, but could not always tell where one blood-boltered corpse began and another ended. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1995)
Patrick Harper had shouted at them in a voice that would have silenced hell itself, a voice that had called Battalions to order across the vast spaces of windy parade grounds, and the gunners stared with astonishment into the courtyard below where a blood-boltered giant seemed to hold a small cannon in his hands. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1987)
Like "the blood-boltered Banquo," it would confront again the eyes that had hoped to look upon it no more. ❋ Various (N/A)
That treatment of the character was, doubtless, in part a necessary consequence of Shakespeare's perfunctory adoption of the Tudor doctrine that Richard was a blood-boltered monster; but in a larger degree it was the result of Cibber's vulgar distortion of the original piece. ❋ William Winter (1876)
But as Crawley went deeper in crime and brandy, blood-boltered figures, erect corpses, with the sickening signs of violence in every conceivable form, used to come and blast his sight and arrest the glass on its way to his lips, and make his songs and the boisterous attempts at mirth of his withered heart die in a quaver and a shiver of fear and despair. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)
Page 138 blood-boltered head, and threw it back again into the waters, to be carried whithersoever they might please. ❋ Unknown (1839)
It is the headless Banquo -- 'the blood-boltered Banquo' -- that stalks through that shadowy background all unharmed; _his Fleance_ lives, and in him 'Nature's copy _is_ eterne.' ❋ Delia Bacon (1835)
Duncan ', the' blood-boltered Banquo 'stand before us; all that passed through the mind of Macbeth passes, without the loss of a tittle, through ours. ❋ William Hazlitt (1804)
And Murder, all blood-boltered, schemes the wound. ❋ Hester Lynch Piozzi (1781)
