As you can imagine, I bled. I bled.

So broken heartstrings bled the blues, and we tried to empty ourselves so we'd feel nothing.

Mr. Xiao's hands bled and his head was scratched by an umbrella. He also showed symptom of headache.

For several days following the incident he bled from his left ear, and his eyes and lips remained swollen.

This mother, Diane Downs, shot her kids at close range, drove them to the hospital while they bled all over the car, claimed a scraggy haired stranger did it.

But while the war took the flower of Europe s youth to premature graves, snuffing out the lives of a generation of talented poets, artists, cricketers, and others whose genius bled into the trenches, it also involved soldiers from faraway lands that had little to do with Europe s bitter traditional hatreds.

The war bled Europe of a generation of youth, and set the stage for a second war a generation later. It opened the way for 75 years of Soviet communism, and set in motion the financial instability that led to the Great Depression as well as the collapse of the international trading system.