Next in the highest job and power echelons are those with a high percentage of Spanish blood.
My father was a seaman, and Mother always said he had Spanish blood in him.
A woman of Spanish blood does not condone such an injury so lightly.
At least we'll blame it on the Spanish blood.
It must be the Spanish blood that makes you all fall in love with such terrible suddenness.
There was no Spanish blood in either of them.
The name was used for people of pure or mostly Spanish blood, but who were born in the colony.
Everybody who possibly can, pretends to be of pure Spanish blood.
Obviously she had some Spanish blood mixed in somewhere.
"It must be your Spanish blood that makes you so warm," he would laugh.