As Ryan never tired of recalling, bagpipes had long been banned in Ireland by British rulers who had learned the hard way that the music could stir the blood and spur rebellion.
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There's something magical about sailing the tall ships, something that stirs the blood and makes a person as dizzy as the potent, icy rum swizzles the stewards ladle out by the bucketful every afternoon.
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There's nothing like a little vitriol to stir the blood on these languid summer days . Here's a generous portion, courtesy of Richard Marius, author and teacher of English at the World's Greatest University.
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They were there to tell audiences about themselves and also to fulfill an important mandate of the theater : the obligation to entertain, to reach, to move, to activate heartstrings and to stir the blood.
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Daniel Buchanan, 27, a sculptor who supports himself by working as a waiter at Steak-n-Shake, could summon nothing at all, good or ill, to say about Gore, who, he said, simply does not stir the blood.
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As for the Giants and the Jets, they play each other for real only every two or three seasons, if that, along with an annual summer exhibition that never stirs the blood for long, if at all.
