"Bloody sweat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Catholics, is the handkerchief with which our Saviour is supposed to have wiped his face during his passion, which they allege took from his bloody sweat a miraculous impression ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VII • Robert Kerr
... dying man, toward half-past eleven, lost both color and sight; his mouth, which, up to that moment, had remained open, became closed; the flow of blood which for several days past had terrified all who were near him, as the bloody sweat of Charles IX. had similarly done at an earlier period, had suddenly ceased, and hands and feet became icy cold. Henri was sitting beside the head of the couch whereon his brother was extended. Catherine was standing ...
— The Forty-Five Guardsmen • Alexandre Dumas |
