I've heard of blue-blooded families, but these are the first I've ever seen!
The blue-blooded aristocrat had appeared at Yale, and he had chosen his circle of acquaintances with great care.
This would help her natural gifts of fascination, even though her breeding and education did not reach the standard of her blue-blooded critics.
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Some becameblue-blooded, and some evaporated; but they made their fortunes from shipping.
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I cannot say the same for some other speeches which have been made, some of which were moreblue-bloodedthan red-blooded.
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Every one of them isblue-bloodedand has a pedigree in the herd books as long as a man's arm.
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