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As children, the narrator and two other boys, Bon and Man, swore blood brotherhood and have remained fierce friends.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2015

An Indian maharajah's purloined jewels, poisoned darts, blood brotherhood, damsels in distress, blood-drenched epistles � you name it: Giovanni uses it.

From Time Magazine Archive

On an afternoon in the Roaring Twenties they meet again and, after sputtering mistrust, struggle to renew a feeling of blood brotherhood in boundless adventure.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stool Pigeon Sir: Can a man who has sworn blood brotherhood with a group and then "squeals" on them be trusted in anything?

From Time Magazine Archive

He was conscious of a tie like that of blood brotherhood.

From The Forest of Swords A Story of Paris and the Marne by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)