blood-guilt

The American people, including the families of the murdered Virginia Tech innocents, have collective blood-guilt on their hands.

Virginia Tech, George Bush & Iraq 2007

The advantages of this method were that no blood was spilt (and thus no blood-guilt was incurred), and it was much cheaper than hemlock, because the same materials could be recycled again and again.

'The Death of Socrates' 2007

If I had entered the cavern of the Temenos and undergone the ritual of thetalos there and then, the chains of blood-guilt I bore would be no heavier.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

And yet even as I have acknowledged the folly of my choices, the blood-guilt I bear, I have known, too, that each of us makes our own choices, and no one is free of responsibility for his or her actions.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

They had not chosen their fates, and the shadow of blood-guilt did not lie heavy on their souls.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

When I was weak, when I let myself remember, horrified, the face of the poor Ma­gus, seized in a rictus of death, I knew the chains of blood-guilt lay heavy on my soul.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

I was never free of the chains of blood-guilt, that awareness forged in the ceremony of the thetalos in a Kritian cavern.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

What his motive is I dare not guess, but I do not believe it is blood-guilt. '

The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983

You have no blood-guilt on your hands thus far, why soil them now? '

The Sanctuary Sparrow Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1983

Agravain was a fool, and Gaheris a mad fool, and still carrying the blood-guilt for a worse crime than any done that night.

The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983