blood line

The most notable was "Field Marshal Peng" (not his real name) and his "Army of the Blood Line."

It was the blood line that marked these distinctions; it was ancestry alone that could give the patent of nobility.

As he bowed his head under the rebuke, Alrek's teeth cut a blood-line on his lip; but he attempted no defense.

He remembered the inference from the Superfather that there might be a bad strain in his blood line.