Word: spilt
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...could see its colour. It was a flat-topped rock . . . rising to something like six feet above the ground, and it was red-brown and gleaming, for it was entirely covered with the blood of the beasts that had been sacrificed on it during the night. . . . The colour of spilt blood is not properly a colour, it is in itself discoloured, it is a visible display of putrescence. In every crevice of the red-brown rock there had been stuck wax candles, which now hung down in a limp fringe of greasy yellow tails, smeared with blood...
...President's oval study, the words of his fighting speech four days before were still ringing in their memories: (We wished to avoid shooting. But the shooting has started. And history has recorded who fired the first shot.} The shooting had gone on; U.S. blood had been spilt, U.S. lives had been lost...
...Elaborate high-signs involving music, spilt Cointreau, inverted wrist watches, roses...
...mistake his secret police would never make. They thought he was so unimportant they did not arrest him. There was Hitler's brutal Labor Boss Robert Ley. Bayles describes his first meeting with the doctor: "Dr. Ley . . . was sitting at the head of a long table slopped with spilt beer and wine, and strewn with cigar and cigarette butts, broken glass, bread crusts and the remains of meals. He was in a soiled brown uniform and his huge, florid face and baldish head were streaked with blood because he had cut his hand on a broken glass and then...
Lyford, who had spilt acid on a pair of chemistry work pants, rebelled in his own way and threw the pants on the shower floor with the water turned on full. Summoned away from his impromptu washtub by some errand. he was absent for about a quarter of an hour and returned to find langorous waves breaking slowly over the far edge...