Literary Examples

"Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe, top-full
Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood,
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall" (I. v. Lady Macbeth).

"And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. There's no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes" (II. i. Macbeth).

"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hands? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red" (II. ii. Macbeth).

"My hands are of your colour; but I shame
To wear a heart so white" (II. ii. Lady Macbeth).

"Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!
Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold;
Thou hast no speculation in those eyes
Which thou dost glare with!" (III. iv. Macbeth).

"It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood:
Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;
Augures and understood relations have
By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth
The secret'st man of blood" (III. iv. Macbeth).

"Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn
The power of man, for none of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth" (IV. i. Second Apparition).

"Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why,
then, 'tis time to do 't. Hell is murky! Fie, my
lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we
fear who knows it, when none can call our power to
account? yet who would have thought the old man
to have had so much blood in him" (V. i. Lady Macbeth).