1.   At the Marcy Homes, where his mother lived, blood stains the linoleum floors and beer bottles litter the hallway.

2.   Blood no longer stains the street here, but when the clouds burst, it seems even the heavens grieve.

3.   Gerdes, however, volunteered that cross-contamination could have occurred early on, when an LAPD lab technician and criminalists collected blood stains from the crime scene.

4.   Glasses of beer stood half full on the tables, and blood stained the floor.

5.   High over the island, blood stains a window of the lighthouse.

6.   It was a reminder how utterly we have dismissed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, the two people whose blood stains all our hands.

7.   On Wednesday, dark red blood stained the mud of the bowl.

8.   On Wednesday afternoon, blood stained the flimsy hut and a strong wind whipped through bullet holes in the canvas.

9.   The boy was wearing a yellow T-shirt, the glazed expression of a person in shock, and two fresh medical dressings, already stained by blood.

10.   The diary has three bullet holes and some blood stains, said Vanessa Hardy, a book specialist with the auction house.