heart's blood

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heart's blood (uncountable)

  1. (literary) Alternative form of heart-blood
    • 1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci[1], London: C. & J. Ollier, act V, scene 4, page 103:
      Soon the heart’s blood of all I love on earth
      Will sprinkle him, and he will wipe it off
      As if ’twere only rain.
    • 1912, Robert W. Service, “The Soldier of Fortune”, in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone[2], Toronto: William Briggs, page 24:
      “And now, my butchers, I embrace my fate.
      Come! let my heart’s blood slake the thirsty sod. []