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Gory   /gˈɔri/   Listen
adjective
Gory  adj.  
1.
Covered with gore or clotted blood. "Thou canst not say I did it; never shake Thy gory locks at me."
2.
Bloody; murderous. "Gory emulation."





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"Gory" Quotes from Famous Books



... have believed that any living girl could have made the sacrifice. In the second place, I couldn't have believed that the one who had passed through such an ordeal could come forth more glorious than ever. But the sacrifice was too much. However, it's done. Nay—never shake your gory locks at me. Thou cans't not say I did it. But where is ...
— A Castle in Spain - A Novel • James De Mille
... lie gashed and gory, The holy walls within, Sweet Jesu, think upon our end, And wipe away ...
— The Saint's Tragedy • Charles Kingsley
... snarling, suggesting that of a wild animal disturbed in its lair, proclaimed the arousing of Taximan Thomas Brian. A thick voice inquired, brutally, why the sanguinary hell he (Mr. Brian) had had his bloodstained slumbers disturbed in this gory manner and who ...
— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer
... of the castor-oil plant) has another feature almost unique—two ivory-white projections in the mouth, singularly like a baby's teeth. In the waters of Florida is a distinct curiosity in the form of an altogether different mollusc which is commonly known as the "bleeding-tooth shell," the gory stains about the base of the tooth being highly significant. The local example of the whimsicality of Nature owes its excellence to absolute purity. No fond mother crooning to her first-born ever looked on budding teeth more delightful in ...
— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield
... found a new peril of American life. It is the gory horn of the snapdragon. Added to our genius for boastfulness and impiety, it is a crowning defect. Ye would think that our chief aim was the cuspidor. Showers of expectoration and thunder claps o' profanity ...
— The Light in the Clearing • Irving Bacheller


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