heart's blood

A form of heart-blood — Blood needed for continued life; blood regarded as the seat of life; lifeblood.

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Meanings

nounheart's blood (uncountable)
  1. alternativeliteraryuncountableAlternative form of heart-blood.

    “And now, my butchers, I embrace my fate. Come! let my heart’s blood slake the thirsty sod. […]”

    1912, Robert W. Service, “The Soldier of Fortune”, in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, Toronto: William Briggs, page 24
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    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.

    1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci, London: C. & J. Ollier, act V, scene 4, page 103
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