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1594 True Trag. Richard III sig. I He like to a starued Lionesse still called for blood, saying that I should die.

1622 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VI. O.T. xvi. 96 It pleased the wisdome and iustice of the Almightie..to call for the bloud of the Gibeonites.

1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar i. 7 Let Honour Call for my Bloud; and sluce it into streams.

1744 Proc. rel. to Late Election 82 The Moment they [sc. the soldiers] were gone, you will find Stones thrown into his Coach..and the People calling out for his Blood.

1776 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies III. xiii. 425 He thinks with indignation on his native country, which, by the name of mother, calls for his blood instead of feeding him.

1805 Morning Post 17 Apr. 2/2 These names were given to the mob, who beset the Parliament, and the palace of the King, calling for the blood of Lord Strafford.

1874 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 86 Mill mistook him for a murderer, and called for his blood.

1928 R. W. Winston Andrew Johnson iii. vi. 448 A gallery which four years before gave three hearty cheers for the Union and for Andy Johnson of Tennessee now called for his blood.

1979 Daily Tel. 5 Sept. 6 He is well aware that the noisy and active minority who regard him as the totem of white supremacism will call for his blood.

1997 M. W. Cuneo Smoke of Satan (1999) ii. 40 Very rarely does the organization go so far as to call for the blood of its enemies.

2009 Times (Nexis) 16 Oct. 38 Surely it should be possible for someone in the public eye to say something silly..without everyone calling for their blood.