France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood.

-Tennyson
  'Locksley Hall SixtyYears After', l.89^90.

Plures efficimus quoties metimur a vobis, semen est sanguis Christianorum. As often as we are mown down by you, the more we grow in numbers; the blood of the Christians istheseed.

-Tertullian full name  Quintus SeptimiusFlorensTertullianus
Apologeticus, ch.50, section13.The phrase is often quoted as 'The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.'

'A chilli,'said Rebecca, gasping,'Oh, yes!' She thought a chilli wassomething cool, asitsname imported, and was served with some.'How fresh and green they look,'she said, and put one into her mouth. It was hotter than the curry; flesh and blood could bear it no longer. She laid down her fork.'Water, for Heaven's sake, water!'she cried.

-Thackeray,William Makepeace
^8  Vanity Fair, ch.3

Nothing like blood, sir, in hosses, dawgs, and men.

-Thackeray,William Makepeace
^8  James Crawley.Vanity Fair, ch.35.

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to thegod he worships, aftera style purely his own, norcan he get off by hammering marble instead.We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.

-Thoreau, Henry David
 Walden, or Life in theWoods,'Higher Laws'.

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself inThee, Let the water and the blood, From thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.

-Toplady, Augustus Montague
  Hymn.

He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  The Ballad of Reading Gaol, pt.1, stanza1.

Nothing whips my blood like verse.

-Williams,William Carlos
Quoted inJohnThirlwall (ed) The Selected Letters ofWilliam CarlosWilliams (1957).

These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.

-Wordsworth,William
  'Lines composed a few miles aboveTintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of theWye',1.22^8.

   The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.

-Wordsworth,William
  'Hart-LeapWell', part 2, l.97^100.

Our current tendency to take our economic blood pressure every few minutes†obfuscates thought on many problems.

-Wriston,Walter Bigelow
  Risk and Other Four-LetterWords.

There's nothing but our own red blood Can make a right RoseTree.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'The RoseTree', stanza 3. Collected in Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921).