Those who in quarrels interpose.
Must often wipe a bloody nose. [ Gay ]

So ends the bloody business of the day. [ Homer ]

Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart. [ Shelley ]

Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began,
A mighty hunter, and his prey was man. [ Pope ]

With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge. [ Quarles ]

Bloody and deceitful men dig their own graves. [ Proverb ]

No trumpet-blast profaned
The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born;
No bloody streamlet stained
Earth's silver rivers on that sacred morn. [ Bryant ]

Midnight hags.
By force of potent spells, of bloody characters,
And conjurations, horrible to hear,
Call fiends and spectres from the yawning deep,
And set the ministers of hell at work. [ Rowe ]