BLOOD in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 The blood ran down his cheek a little way.
2 The blood smell from my hands means nothing now with all that scent in the water.
3 He hit it with his blood mushed hands driving a good harpoon with all his strength.
4 It would be better to gut the dolphin a little later to save the blood in the meat, he thought.
5 Drained of blood and awash he looked the colour of the silver backing of a mirror and his stripes still showed.
6 He had come up from deep down in the water as the dark cloud of blood had settled and dispersed in the mile deep sea.
7 The shaft of the harpoon was projecting at an angle from the fish's shoulder and the sea was discolouring with the red of the blood from his heart.
8 It was these sharks that would cut the turtles' legs and flippers off when the turtles were asleep on the surface, and they would hit a man in the water, if they were hungry, even if the man had no smell of fish blood nor of fish slime on him.
9 Shifting the weight of the line to his left shoulder and kneeling carefully he washed his hand in the ocean and held it there, submerged, for more than a minute watching the blood trail away and the steady movement of the water against his hand as the boat moved.