Many of these people made their living on the edge, and a slip usually meant blood.

Once again, close quarters meant cold steel and hot blood.

The Greek root word haima contributes to this definition, meaning 'blood'.

Birth means blood and pain; there has been some.

"That would literally mean blood up to the knees."

Drinking the life of its victim, she thought, and knew that didn't mean blood.

And that will mean blood on your hands before the thing is done.

"Coffee grounds" meant blood turned dark brown by stomach acids.

In Sanskrit, the word rudhira means red or blood.

That means blood in the streets, and maybe a lot of innocent blood with it.