Blood

Blood is a specialized bodily fluid that delivers necessary substances to the body's cells (in animals) – such as nutrients and oxygen – and transports waste products away from those same cells.

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• A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
  • Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (April 3, 1777); as published in The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke (1899), vol. 2, p. 206.

• i
  have often noticed that
  ancestors never boast
  the descendants who boast
  of ancestors i would
  rather start a family than
  one blood will tell but often
  it tells too much
  • Don Marquis, archy and mehitabel (1927), a roach of the taverns, p. 156–57.

• dance mehitabel dance
  caper and shake a leg
  what little blood is left
  will fizz like wine in a keg
  • Don Marquis, archy and mehitabel (1927), mehitabel dances with boreas.

• Blud's thicker than water.
  • Walter Scott, Guy Mannering (1815), Chapter XXXVIII.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 73.

• Le sang qui vient de se repandre, est-il done si pur?
  • Was the blood which has been shed then so pure?
  • Antoine Barnave, on hearing a criticism of the murder of Foulon and Bartier (1790).

• Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft.
  • Blood is a juice of rarest quality.
  • Goethe, Faust, I. 4. 214.

• Hands across the sea
  Feet on English ground,
  The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round.
  • Byron Webber, Hands across the Sea.

• Blood is thicker than water.
  • Attributed to Commodore Tattnall. See Eleventh Ed. of Encyclopedia Britannica in notice of Tattnall. Vincent S. Lean stated in Notes and Queries. Seventh S. XIII. 114, he had found the proverb in the British Museum copy of the 1797 Ed. of Allan Ramsay's. Collection, (First Ed,. 1737).