He tried to lift the microphone of his police radio, but it kept slipping from his blood-smeared hands.

The images in his mind became as unbearable as the sight of the blood-smeared hand, and he opened his eyes.

He was on his knees, rocking back and forth, holding a blood-smeared hand against his side.

The giant looked up at that, parting his lank hair with blood-smeared hands.

She reached out, took one of his blood-smeared hands in hers, held it.

Gerolamo glanced down at the blood-smeared hand over his wound.

Now he extended a blood-smeared hand, offering the stranger a strip of the kill's deep-red flesh.

He vaulted inward through the smashed window, seized the telephone in trembling, blood-smeared hands.

He was vacant-eyed, white as bleached linen, and staring at his own blood-smeared hands.

He let Peter go in disgust and as an afterthought wiped his blood-smeared hand on the front of Peter's shirt.