The government at home, and the people of the colonies, are getting to have bad blood between them.

[T]here was bad blood between us from a couple of weeks back, and we was only friends in the way of business.

Now for these and other things (whereof I could tell a thousand) was the reckoning come that night; and not a line we missed of it; soon as our bad blood was up. I like not to tell of slaughter, though it might be of wolves and tigers; and that was a night of fire and slaughter, and of very long-harboured revenge. Enough that ere the daylight broke upon that wan March morning, the only Doones still left alive were the Counsellor and Carver.

[I]f we dare not search ourselves close enough to discover the low breeding, the bad blood in us, it will one day come out plain as the smitten brand of the forcat.

"Humph! Thought there was bad blood somewhere!" he exclaimed. . . .
"No!" was the determined answer. . . . Because his father was dishonest is no proof that he is a thief."

She has bad blood in her. Her mother . . . went to pieces, poor dear, and Judge Lawton wisely sent her East.

Bad blood

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Noun

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