"Sanguineous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... letting him loose, and the share he had not had in securing him again, Dorothy was looking about for her friend Marquis. All at once he came bounding up to her, and, exultant in the sense of accomplished duty, leaped up against her, at once turning her into a sanguineous object frightful to behold; for his wounds were bad, although none of them were serious except one in his throat. This upon examination she found so severe that to replace his collar was out of the question. Telling him therefore to follow her, in the confidence that she might ...
— St. George and St. Michael • George MacDonald
... calves of the legs. They excite vomiting by means of certain herbs which they chew, and keep in their mouths. They use likewise various other remedies and antidotes, which it were tedious to enumerate. They are subject to different sanguineous and phlegmatic humours, occasioned by the nature of their food, which consists of fish, with various roots, fruits, and herbs. They use no meal of any kind of corns or other seeds; but their chief food is made from the root of a certain tree, which they bruise down into ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. III. • Robert Kerr
... of blood from the mouth, first raised, she believes, by vomiting, and afterwards by coughing. Evacuations of blood from the haemorrhoidal vessels appeared about the same time, and occasionally since, till within six weeks, during which time there have been no sanguineous discharges, and this suppression has aggravated her ...
— Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart • John Collins Warren
... displeasure how lead they their life: Now sorry, now sad: now joyous, now pensive: Alas! I, poor maiden, then what shall I do, Cumbered by dotage of one Calisto? I know that Nature hath given me beauty, With sanguineous complexion, favour, and fairness: The more to God ought I to do fea'ty With will, life, land, and love of perfectness. I deny not but Calisto is of great worthiness, But what of that? for all his high estate, His ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I. • R. Dodsley |
