blood
The red fluid that circulates in the heart and blood vessels.
How often you will meet it
Rank 495 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 41,232 times across 191,625 chapters — 0.020% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- The red fluid that circulates in the heart and blood vessels.
blood in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Here every one of gentle blood has been more or less mixed up in these civil broils.
A Knight of the White Cross · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1
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Soon I found myself eating and drinking, and the blood once more was mashing through my veins.
The Betrayal · E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim · Chapter 1
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She was a woman of good blood and of good education, as the education of such women goes.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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I do protest, if any chaste denial, If anything but blood could have allay'd His long suit to me---- Corn.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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That the murderer was known as an imbecile, had no effect whatever upon the people who thirsted for his blood.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1