life-drops

And a mark on the floor as of life-drops spilt, --

Landscape and Song Various 1891

Stir the few life-drops creeping round his heart, --

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Stir the few life-drops creeping round his heart, -

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Oh, it was like a ray of sunshine to that weeping mother's heart, to hear her once wayward child speak thus! and though it was like taking away the life-drops from her heart to give up her cherished little one, yet she felt there was still a great blessing remaining for her.

Small Means and Great Ends 1838

She threw up her right hand, filled with poor Mignon's life-drops; they spirted, one or two of them, on his shooting-dress, -- an ominous sight to the follower.

Curious, if True Strange Tales Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

Yes, more exacting still, for _he_ paused, when forbidden to spill the red life-drops, and dropped the murderous knife.

Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Caroline Lee Hentz 1828

Niflheim and all things grim, so was that part that looked towards Muspell hot and bright; but Yawning-gap was as light as windless air, and when the blast of heat met the rime, so that it melted and dropped and quickened; from those life-drops there was shaped the likeness of a man, and he was named Ymir; he was bad, and all his kind; and so it is said, when he slept he fell into a sweat; then waxed under his left hand a man and a woman, and one of his feet got a son with the other, and thence cometh the

The Story of the Volsungs 2008

She proved the conqueror by forcing me to be the first to yield up my tribute; but not wishing to be outdone in the capacity of conferring pleasure, I continued my vigorous heaves and thrusts in the delicious receptacle in which I was engulphed, while I felt the warm life-drops bursting from me in a torrent of bliss, until I was sensible that she also had yielded to the potent spell and shared my enjoyment by mingling her contribution with the tide which flowed from me.

Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover Anonymous

Muspell-heim; as cold arose out of Niflheim and all things grim, so was that part that looked towards Muspell hot and bright; but Yawning-gap was as light as windless air, and when the blast of heat met the rime, so that it melted and dropped and quickened; from those life-drops there was shaped the likeness of a man, and he was named Ymir; he was bad, and all his kind; and so it is said, when he slept he fell into a sweat; then waxed under his left hand a man and a woman, and one of his feet got a son with the other, and thence cometh the Hrimthursar.

The Story of the Volsungs Anonymous 1873

I'll get you the grammars, and give you a first lesson, if you'll remember, at every house in the village, to recommend Physician Vilbert's golden ointment, life-drops, and female pills. "

Jude the Obscure 1896