sanguinary

“We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.”

“"[…] every one of which took its rise from some noble family that succeeded in grasping the purple after a sanguinary struggle."”

“Passion […] makes us brutal and sanguinary.”

“"The defence set up for Mahomet is equally availing for every sanguinary and revengeful tyrant; […]"”

“I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]”

“Here is the premeditation, the thrill, the strain of accumulating victory or disaster—and no smashed nor sanguinary bodies […], that we who are old enough to remember a real modern war know to be the reality of belligerence.”