a1657 G. Daniel (1878) II. 9 Though the blood-fir'd Ruffian, rageing come.
1883 C. H. Payne (1884) 166 There they are, as hunger-fierce and blood-fired beasts as ever craunched their victims in the Coliseum at Rome.
2005 J. Clemens (2006) x. 201 The blood-fired craft had taken flight—or so it seemed.