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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 Black Arrow A Tale of the Two Roses 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

John Ferguson urges confidently the will of God that James, whom he believes blood-guilty, should not avoid arrest, and refuses to hide him.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 3rd, 1920 by Various

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

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