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Man of Blood

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David is so called (2 Sam. xvi. 7).

The Puritans applied the term to Charles I., because he made war against his Parliament. Any man of violence.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Man-jack
Man … Monkey
Man-Mountain or Quinbus Flestrin
Man Proposes
Man Threefold
Man in Black (The)
Man in the Iron Mask (The)
Man in the Moon (The)
Man of Belial
Man of Blood
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Man of Brass (The)
Man of December
Man of Destiny (The)
Man of Feeling
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