Blood-feud Sentence Examples

The only way to protect innocent people from the blood feud that runs between my family and A'Ran's was to use honor.

And yet he knew war was not so simple between two clans with a history of blood feud as theirs had.

It is state-law; alike self-help, blood-feud, marriage by capture, are absent; though family solidarity, district responsibility, ordeal, the lex talionis, are primitive features that remain.

They had all along maintained a virtual independence of the Turks and until quite recently retained their medieval customs, living in fortified towers and practising the vendetta or blood-feud.

A blood-feud arose between them and a line of Afghan princes who had established themselves among the mountains of Ghor.

While attempting to effect his escape he was recognized by the chief of the other branch of the Kajar tribe, who had deserted his cause, and who had a blood-feud with him, in pursuance of which he now put him to death.

These legends belong to an age when higher ideas of law and of social duty were being established;, the implacable blood-feud of primitive society gives place to a fair trial, and in Athens, when the votes of the judges are evenly divided, mercy prevails.

Increase of wealth and the influence of returned emigrants tend to soften Maronite character, and the last remnants of the barbarous state of the community - even the obstinate blood-feud - are disappearing.

An end to the blood feud that has existed between my family and yours.

This started a blood feud between the Bruce and MacDougall clans; the Bruce had of course supported William Wallace.

A blood feud can start over any number of causes - an untoward advance to a woman or the killing of a sheep dog.

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In all parts of Albania the vendetta (gydk, jak) or blood-feud, the primitive lex talionis, is an established usage; the duty of revenge is a sacred tradition handed down to successive generations in the family, the village and the tribe.