1.   Believing gods were pacified by human blood, they killed thousands in human sacrifice.

2.   She will not have her altar stained with human blood.

3.   The liquid looks very like human blood and was poured at night on to the fields.

4.   And who can ever forget those flying, silver, skull-drilling orbs that patrol the mortuary, turning trespassers into human blood fountains.

5.   At present, it costs more to produce than a unit of human blood.

6.   At the site of an ancient Anasazi settlement near Mesa Verde in southwestern Colorado, archaeologists came upon butchered human bones and stone cutting tools stained with human blood.

7.   Bats, wrongfully typecast as flying rodents who suck human blood, prefer to dine on bugs.

8.   Before going into battle, Renamo commanders sometimes coaxed their young fighters to drink human blood, a rite that was supposed to ensure fearlessness.

9.   Biopure said Monday that its manufactured substitute for human blood had met the major safety targets set by the Food and Drug Administration in a crucial clinical trial.