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The rosy gleam of his lip, the fevered green of his eyes. There was not a line anywhere on his face, nothing creased or graying; all crisp. He was spring, golden and bright. Envious Death would drink his blood, and grow young again.
Madeline Miller • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
sanguine
Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
sanguine.
Alix E. Harrow • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
saurian
Dan Simmons • Ilium (Ilium series Book 1)
When Cú Chulainn eventually realised that he had been mortally wounded, he tied himself to a large stone so that he could die standing up, face to face with his enemies. There he remained for three days, still capable of striking fear into his foes. No one dared approach him. It was only when the Morrigan, in the form of a raven, perched on Cú... See more
The Morrigan in Celtic Mythology
The Roman commander at the siege of Pompeii in 89 BCE, where the teenaged Cicero served as a very junior officer, was Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, meaning ‘lucky’ or, rather more imposingly, ‘the favourite of the goddess Venus’.