I had warmed to his battered old hat at sight of it, and he was as solicitous for my welfare as if we were blood brothers.
Sounds like the blood brother vow they used to take.
They will do him no harm if he is willing to be their "blood brother."
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In another case a life-insurance policy was taken out for the benefit of a 'bloodbrother'.
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Nothing we could do could persuade them to leave the hook, which they had learned to live with as theirbloodbrother, because it was letting their own blood.
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He saved the sultan's daughter from an unwanted marriage after she entreated him, as herbloodbrother, to help her.
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This is similar, in many ways, to becoming abloodbrother.
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We are in the most literal sense blood brothers and blood sisters.
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They are blood brothers and both are bad guides.
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I know they all love one another like real blood brothers.
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I will return to the point of what our blood brothers are saying out there.
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We want them to be blood brothers.
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It would not have been that these men were innocent; it would have been that they were guilty because they were being welcomed home by their blood brothers.
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Two blood brothers picked the members for the new groups in a manner similar to choosing up sides for an impromptu baseball game.
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This could be done by accepting any number of artificial blood brothers in a ceremony assuring mutual obligations and shared loyalty.
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The king is not followed by blood brothers.
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The two quickly become friends and perform a traditional ceremony declaring themselves blood brothers.
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Three months later, the two became blood brothers.
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