It was Dandy Brandon, clad only in a bloody loincloth, emaciated and quaking as if the devil were breathing hard on him.

Its groin was bloody.

Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.

The Homestead Strike was a bloody labor confrontation lasting 143 days in 1892, one of the most serious in U. S. history.

Nineveh was a city of vast extent, and was then the center of the civilization and commerce of the world, a " bloody city all full of lies and robbery " ( Nahum 3: 1 ), for it had robbed and plundered all the neighboring nations.

It was the start of a bloody civil war.

The result of the bloody three-day confrontation known as the Battle of the Maule was that the Inca conquest of the territories of Chile ended at the Maule river, which subsequently became the boundary between the Incan empire and the Mapuche lands until the arrival of the Spaniards.

The Jurchen-founded Jin Dynasty was defeated by the Mongols, who then proceeded to defeat the Southern Song in a long and bloody war, the first war in which firearms played an important role.

The ensuing Battle of Mursa Major was one of the largest and most bloody battles between two Roman armies in Roman history.

It was during the Red Terror that the Cheka, hoping to avoid the bloody aftermath of having half-dead victims writhing on the floor, developed a technique for execution known later by the German words " Nackenschuss " or " Genickschuss ", a shot to the nape of the neck, which caused minimal blood loss and instant death.

It was said in the Talmud about the death penalty in Judaism, that if a court killed more than one person in seventy years, it was a barbarous ( or " bloody ") court and should be condemned as such.

The following day after the victims ' bodies were found, Bojangles ' manager Marty King, thinking there was a possible connection to the bloody man found in the bathroom, repeated the incident to police officers who then inspected the ladies room.

The invasion of the Inca in the 15th century was very painful and bloody.

The upshot was that Heppenstall ended up with a bloody nose and was locked in a room.

The Battle of Clontarf was fought on the banks of the River Tolka in 1014 ( a field called the bloody acre is supposed to be part of the site ).

Following a period of growing political instability in the early 20th century, in 1936 Spain was plunged into a bloody civil war.

On 27 April 1978, the PDPA, led by Nur Mohammad Taraki, Babrak Karmal and Amin Taha overthrew the government of Mohammad Daoud, who was assassinated along with all his family members in a bloody military coup.

One Gurjar Rajput of the Chauhan clan, Prithvi Raj Chauhan, was known for bloody conflicts against the advancing Islamic sultanates.

The power of the mai was undermined by droughts and famine that were becoming more intense, internal rebellion in the pastoralist north, growing Hausa power, and the importation of firearms which made warfare more bloody.

* The line " bloody, but unbowed " was the Daily Mirrors headline the day after the 7 July 2005 London bombings.

The Irish War of Independence was a brutal and bloody affair, with violence and acts of extreme brutality on both sides.

The Contras ' form of warfare was " one of consistent and bloody abuse of human rights, of murder, torture, mutilation, rape, arson, destruction and kidnapping.

' " His biographer Trefousse concludes that, while his courageous stand for the Union paid handsome political dividends, Johnson did not succeed in the White House because of his failure to outgrow his Jeffersonian-Jacksonian background ; put in other words, " Johnson was a child of his time, but he failed to grow with it.

He was endowed by nature with the most remarkable gifts both of mind and body: he was handsome and eloquent, but licentious ; and, at the same time, active, hardy, courageous, a great general and an able politician.

Criticism of other officials was allowed during these meetings, for instance, Karl Radek said to Lenin ( criticising his position of supporting peace with the Germans ), " If there were five hundred courageous men in Petrograd, we would put you in prison.

He was courageous, a long, straight kick, he had a shrewd football brain and, above all, he was a spectacular, thrilling mark.

Later, he became a legendary figure and the model of a tough, courageous Roman, and was bestowed the honorific title, " The Shield of Rome " ( similar to Marcus Claudius Marcellus being named the " Sword of Rome ").

The more disciplined and courageous the army, the more likely it was to win – often engagements between the various city-states of Greece would be resolved by one side fleeing before the battle.

According to historian Michael Hopkinson, the guerrilla warfare " was often courageous and effective ".

He was known as a valiant and competent military leader and individual fighter: courageous and generous.

His retribution was that, at the end of every Great Year ( seven solar years ), the seven most courageous youths and the seven most beautiful maidens were to board a boat and be sent as tribute to Crete, never to be seen again.

After a courageous and costly defence Calderón was forced to withdraw.

Ohlendorf himself spoke out for " active and courageous entrepreneurship ( aktives und wagemutiges Unternehmertum )", which was intended to replace bureaucratic state planning of the economy after the war.

He wrote in his autobiography that it was Here, in this courageous New Englander's refusal to pay his taxes and his choice of jail rather than support a war that would spread slavery's territory into Mexico, I made my first contact with the theory of nonviolent resistance.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first time the phrase appeared in print was in the August 1894 issue of Forum: " The true cause for exultation is the universal outburst of patriotism in support of the prompt and courageous action of President Cleveland in maintaining the supremacy of law throughout the length and breadth of the land, in establishing the pax Americana.

Their destitution is not material only ; it is intellectual and it is moral ' They were neither generous nor hospitable and their talk was not that of evenly courageous men.

Valdemar himself was saved only by the courageous actions of a German knight who carried Valdemar to safety on his horse.

As a person Frederick was described as hot-headed, vain, courageous and ambitious.

In his youth he was reported to be courageous and skillful in military exercises.

" Ament was one of the most respected and courageous missionaries in China and the controversy between him and Mark Twain was front page news during much of 1901.

Indisputably Charles was cruel, ungenerous and vindictive ; yet he seems, at all hazards, strenuously to have endeavoured to do his duty during a period of political and religious transition, and, despite his violence and brutality, possessed many of the qualities of a wise and courageous statesman.

His distinct personality was inspired by Douglas Fairbanks for his courageous and adventurous attitude as seen in the cartoon short Oh, What a Knight.

" Although Warren was an important and courageous figure and although he inspired passionate devotion among his followers ... he was a dull man and a dull judge ," wrote Dennis J. Hutchinson.