I will institute a massacre, not bodily and bloodily, but soul-piercing and purifying.
"Berlin and Sans-Souci"
Louise Muhlbach
On that hill Wellesley planted his left: and all the efforts of Victor to turn that wing or to break it by charges across the intervening ravine were bloodily beaten off.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
As I was sitting on that ancient seat Of divination, where I might command Sure cognisance of every bird of the air, I heard strange clamouring of fowl, that screeched In furious dissonance; and, I could tell, Talons were bloodily engaged-the whirr Of wings told a clear tale.
"The Seven Plays in English Verse"
Sophocles