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The villi of the chorion push their branches into the blood-filled tissues of the coat of the uterus, and the vessels of each loop together so intimately that it is no longer possible to separate the foetal from the maternal placenta; they form henceforth a compact and apparently simple placenta.
As Tom talked, I seemed to hear Ulysses telling of his meeting with Agamemnon in Hades, and those terrible ghosts drinking from the blood-filled trench, and I shuddered in spite of myself; for it is almost impossible entirely to refuse credence to beliefs held with such certitude of terror across so many centuries and by such different people.
They carried him to the house, where he lay insensible for hours, but once only his lips parted, and then he breathed the name of 'Rosa, in accents so tender, that his brother, who stood bending over him, in agony of grief at his state, flew from the room. "In half an hour Conrad started as though shot, and rose from the bed with blood-filled eyes, and wildest terror on his features.
So sudden was this movement, and so unlooked for, that the sword was twitched out of Siegfried's hand, and fell with a dull splash into the blood-filled pit before him; while Regin, slain by his own rashness, sank dead upon the ground. "This is a place of blood," said he, "and the way to glory leads not through it.
What the disease was or how it was spread is unknown and unknowable at this late date. Virus or bacterium, amoeba or fungus whatever it was, it struck. Symptoms: Lassitude, weariness, weakness, and pain. Signs: Great, ulcerous, wartlike, blood-filled blisters that grew rapidly over the body.
The heart grew larger, making the chest almost burst, beating in the throat, tossing about madly-shouting in horror with its blood-filled voice. And the eyes looked upon the quivering floor, and the ears heard how the wheels were turning ever more slowly the wheels slipped and turned again, and then suddenly they stopped. The train had halted. Then a dream set in.
Alas, so is it in Deutschland, and hitherto in all other lands; still as of old, 'what devilry soever Kings do, the Greeks must pay the piper! In that fiction of the English Smollett, it is true, the final Cessation of War is perhaps prophetically shadowed forth; where the two Natural Enemies, in person, take each a Tobacco-pipe, filled with Brimstone; light the same, and smoke in one another's faces, till the weaker gives in: but from such predicted Peace-Era, what blood-filled trenches, and contentious centuries, may still divide us!"
When the wing feathers begin to loosen in their sockets an unfailing instinct leads these birds to seek out some secluded pond, where they patiently await the moult. The sprouting, blood-filled quills force out the old feathers, and the bird becomes a thing of the water, to swim and to dive, with no more power of flight than its pond companions, the turtles.
One carefully brought out his gun, waving it overhead to add to the tragedy, as he weaved a powerful story of shell splinters, blood-filled trenches, common shot, men and horses out of which all life and virtue had been blown by gunpowder.
The surprise he experienced was not exactly an agreeable one on beholding the dead man outstretched on his table and the blood-filled tub beneath. It followed naturally, his disposition not being of the mildest, that he was very angry. "You pack of rascally slovens! say, couldn't you have gone outdoors to do your dirty work?
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