Careful Words

bleed (n.)

bleed (v.)

  Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.

Robert Burton (1576-1640): Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 1, Memb. 2, Subsect. 5.

If there's delight in love, 't is when I see

That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.

William Congreve (1670-1729): The Way of the World. Act iii. Sc. 12.

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree

I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed.

I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 10.