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"And fall heir to a blood-feud with every second man I chance upon! A Hill-man is cousin to a hundred others, and what say they in the 'Hills'? 'to hate like cousins, eh? All cousins are at war. As a Rangar I have left my cousins down in India. Better be a converted Hindu and be despised by some than have cousins in the 'Hills'! Besides do I speak like a Hillman?" "Aye!
Orson, and such like human brutes of the wilderness, serve now to amuse children in fairy tales; they were then ugly facts of flesh and blood. There were heathens there, too, in small colonies: heathen Saxons, cruelest of all the tribes; who worshipped at the Irmensul, and had an old blood-feud against the Franks; heathen Thuringer, who had murdered St.
Somebody gets killed. That means a blood-feud. All the relatives of the slain man whether it's Ali Higg or one of his retainers doesn't matter take up arms; and all the relatives of Woolly-wits do ditto. For each man killed in the war that follows the other side is out for the equivalent in life or goods. Village after village gets drawn in.
But with the development of a central authority, whether in the shape of the rule of many or of one, the public control of the blood-feud begins to assert itself; for the good reason that endless vendetta is a dissolving force, which the larger and more stable type of society cannot afford to tolerate if it is to survive.
You see," he added apologetically, "he drave the knife into the thick of the poor lad's leg!" "Wringham?" cried the big man, "why, I did not think he had so muckle spunk!" "Is he close freend of yours?" my grandfather inquired a little anxiously. For he did not wish to land himself in a blood-feud with the kin of a lawyer.
"What else are such apostate fanatics? People who live by robbery and plunder people who, if they find no gold in your money-belt, will rip your stomach open to see if you've swallowed it! "People who practice the barbaric thar, or blood-feud! People who torture their victims by cutting off the ends of their fingers before beheading or crucifying them!
And now that nation, wherever it is, is at blood-feud with us," Cavu-hin-Avoran said. "This must be thought about; it is an ill thing to have unknown enemies." "Look!" a Calera who had begun to strip the three dead men cried. "These are not of the Usasu cities, or any other people of this land. See, they are uncircumcised!"
He lacks every virtue except courage, and his one regret is that he has missed the family blood-feud. There have been great doings in his family on the frontier in his absence two abductions and one homicide. "If I had not come home," his brother has written reproachfully to him from Tirah, "things had gone ill with us. But never mind about all this now. Do your duty well."
It could be a matter of seconds only when she must cross his scent, and he knew that she would remember it there was a blood-feud between them the death of Blazer, who had been her mate. The pass-key rattled in the lock of the postern-door, and Quinton Edge entered the sunken way.
He was once more the disciple of the Man of the Blood-Feud. Washington handed a tall glass to Virginia. "Your lemonade, young lady. I know your taste and approve." He bowed low and gave her the drink. He took two glasses of mint juleps, one in each hand. "Mr. Cook, the favorite drink of these mountains, sir, as pure as its dews, as refreshing as its air the favorite drink of old Virginia.
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