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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

Some 8,000 Hurs, the Lurs, are joined in blood brotherhood in fanatic support of Pir of Pagaro, whom they regard as God.

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

In order to preserve peace Stanley had resource to a rite known as blood brotherhood.

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.