The place, if my blood told me aright, had been holy time out of mind.

And Karel's blood told him that the councillor was planning something.

But as Helene's mother had said, blood would tell.

"Fortunately, or you wouldn't be Weyrleader, but blood will tell!"

As they say, 'the blood will tell you' and when we asked for the confirmation test, they had thrown it away.

Most folks don't think all that ceremony is necessary, but blood will tell, you know?

They ought to have remembered that bad blood will tell.

And then it all came over him - blood does tell.

I guess blood will tell all right, and she was the daughter of a thousand jongs.

But he is a young man of great intelligence - the whole world knows that his parents were geniuses - and blood will tell.