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blue blood |
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blue blood said to flow in the veins of the nobility. [Western Cult.: Brewer Dictionary] See : Aristocracy |
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The high-born fairies obtain this admired effect by pricking their skin, which lets the blue blood come through and dye them, and you cannot imagine anything so dazzling unless you have seen the ladies' busts in the jewellers' windows. The high-born fairies obtain this admired effect by pricking their skin, which lets the blue blood come through and dye them, and you cannot imagine anything so dazzling unless you have seen the ladies' busts in the jewellers' windows. Pharaoh, who is a cad, likes blue blood on the same principle of the attraction of opposites. |
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