blood-guilty
- a word derived from blood guilt.
Example Sentences
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Nay, then, what a world is this, if all that care for me be blood-guilty of my father’s death!
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
There are enthroned monsters like Nero and Commodus; "Christian" emperors, like Constantine, ambitious, crafty, and blood-guilty; and noble "heathen" emperors like Trajan and Aurelius.
From The Chief End of Man by Merriam, George Spring
Then Amis replied— "This be far from me, that my comrade be blood-guilty for my health."
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene
Well," he added after he had dosed them round and they had taken his prescriptions, with really laughable humility, more like charity schoolchildren than blood-guilty mutineers and pirates—"well, that's done for today.
From Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Well," he added, after he had dosed them round, and they had taken his prescriptions, with really laughable humility, more like charity school-children than blood-guilty mutineers and pirates, "well, that's done for to-day.
From Treasure Island by Winter, Milo
