blood guilt

In cities like Naples blood guilt could be atoned for at an inconceivably low rate.

There is a curse laid on this soil, because blood-guilt attaches to it and because it is ill-gotten.

If you accept the principle at all, you must accept with it the blood-guilt of innocent men.

Upon them rests the blood-guilt for this dreadful catastrophe which has befallen the world.

Some of these men had known the inside of the penitentiary; some were not without blood-guilt.