“I would rather have a bloodstain on my escutcheon than a dishonourable blot.”

“A bandage was wrapped around her chest, and a large bloodstain showed where her collarbone joined her breastbone.”

“Jason pointed down at a small bloodstain in my carpet that stood out amongst the white fabric.”

“When alone in the kitchen, Nora sighs and methodically starts to clean her husband's bloodstains from the counter.”

“On the stairs faint bloodstains are visible and their origin unknown, but there are only three choices to what caused them.”

“Old bloodstains had dried into the fabric and he had been unable to wash them out.”