bloodshed

The bloodshed heightened the possibility of direct Russian military action to “protect” its partisans.

If there is neither danger nor bloodshed, the charm is gone.

I may observe in passing that Pope always showed the true poet's tenderness for the lower animals, and disgust at bloodshed.

There would have been further riot and bloodshed on this consecrated ground had our conductor proposed to attempt it then.

Or had her heart come to incline toward him despite the supposed gulf of bloodshed that parted them?

In the struggle several servants were slain, and the king adopted stringent measures to prevent future bloodshed.