Word: staining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fired that revolver, and why did it make no noise? And where was Stephen? I looked about me in a bewildered way. There was no trace of the terrible contest I had witnessed the night before; there was no dead man on the floor, no blood-spot or stain, no sign of struggle or death. What was it I had seen, - a mere nightmare, a vision? I could not think so. I had been too profoundly affected by that scene, whatever it was, to let it vanish utterly in the morning brightness that made it seem an unreality. But where...
...they sprang out from the dark shadows; he tried to draw his knife, but my sharp teeth met in his arm. Hark! A short yelping bark, a snapping of bright teeth, and a grinding sound, and there is nothing but a dark red stain on the fair white snow. Hu-u-u-u! how we sped along under the bright, cruel stars, to the merry, long-drawn notes, while the poor frightened peasant put another bar on his flimsy door and shiveringly murmured, "Les loups-garous...
...that low mound, stain'd with tears...