Word: blood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Three years dragged out their course in blood...
...coat besmeared with blood and grime...
...chieftain's blood flows quicker...
Thrilled my blood like a ghost...
...past life, to recall my boyhood, my college days, and the few preceding years; but instead of that I found myself attempting some jingling nurseryrhyme, and was vexed because there was one note which I could not catch. I thought of the axe, and tried to imagine the blood spurting out over it. But I discovered that I was endeavoring to pun upon the word. I was feeling particularly well pleased with "reaction," when my thoughts took another turn, and I began to wonder why it was that I was able to think at all. Or was it that this...