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Examples
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Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formation in readiness — for the present only in the East — with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language.
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I jumped you apologies to your partner death-head on.
a 'Bed Day' and my gift Elizabeth McClung 2008
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Diamond describes his other fallen civilizations in similarly monitory tones: so many societal memento mori, death-head reminders to the live and prospering.
Very Bad News Geertz, Clifford 2005
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And in the distance I must be able to see the charnel-house, with its death-head cut in the wall.
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The spade, coffin, death-head, marrow bones, and sprig of cassia, which are thus explained: The SPADE opens the vault to receive our bodies, where our active limbs will soon moulder to dust.
The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge William Morgan
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For if we pay for this our navy, that even now defends us, and yet speak not in the councils at Westminster, then that is Taxation without Representation; straightway the soul of the Anglo-Saxon stands aghast; the grim death-head of King John grins in the grave, while the stout ghost of old Ben Franklin hovers again upon our frontier holding in its hand the proffer of independence.
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But when he approached them in his outlandish death-head costume, he said, they were happy to talk.
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To be fair, what West and his ghosts sent out looked well enough made, and all that video-set experience means he knows how to make a model look sexy - no death-head make-up for him.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Lisa Armstrong 2011
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To be fair, what West and his ghosts sent out looked well enough made, and all that video-set experience means he knows how to make a model look sexy - no death-head make-up for him.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Lisa Armstrong 2011
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To be fair, what West and his ghosts sent out looked well enough made, and all that video-set experience means he knows how to make a model look sexy - no death-head make-up for him.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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