Among many of the old families only blood relations are expected to eat and drink together on this holy day.
I have no other blood relations in Europe and know nothing of some distant cousins who live in Australia.
My parents were blood relations—cousins in the second degree—my mother, whose maiden name was Minor, having descended from a collateral branch of my father's family.
Some, with blood relations in the States, refused point blank to take up arms.
The priests also instruct the boys on their duty to their blood relations, and teach them the secrets of the tribe.
Cicero defined "pietas" as the virtue which admonishes us to do our duty to our country or our parents or other blood relations.
Under both systems, the property of an intestate person went to the deceaseds blood relations only: in the first place, to his descendants; failing them, to his ascendants and collaterals.
Oedipus, for example, consists of the overrating of blood relations and the underrating of blood relations, the autochthonous origin of humans and the denial of their autochthonous origin.
