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Blood money

noun

Compensation paid to the family of a murdered person.

A reward for information about a murderer.

Paid to a hired murderer.

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"Blood money" Quotes from Famous Books

... Donnelly's murder, in order to establish incontestable alibis. Nevertheless, it was they who laid the trap, and they are equally guilty with the wretches who obeyed their orders. It was they who paid over the blood money, and with their arrest you will have all the accessories to the crime, save one. Of him I can tell you nothing. I fear I can never find him, for he walks in shadow and no man ...

— The Net • Rex Beach

... out John Carstairs, passionately. He struck the other's outstretched hand, and in his surprise, William Carstairs let the bills scatter upon the floor. "I don't want it—blood money. Father is dead. I've had mine. I'll trouble you ...

— A Little Book for Christmas • Cyrus Townsend Brady

... it was best to have God's blessing, with the fruits of his honest industry, or his curse, with two hundred dollars blood money. He answered, with moistened eyes, 'I wish all the slaves were free,' to ...

— A Visit To The United States In 1841 • Joseph Sturge

Words linked to "Blood money" : compensation, reward, payment