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I've got photochromic lenses already, but I'm pretty sure that's not what you meant by shades ... although top hat + wolfshead cane + mirrored lenses does sound pretty badass
Torture, a present of Goth Girls, wings and corsets and a weekend challenge to YOU Elizabeth McClung 2008
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He would be a wolfshead, disowned and disregarded.
The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995
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Line your battlements and watch while Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus teaches this renegade wolfshead who calls himself a Roman what being a true Roman is!
Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993
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Political differences were forgotten, mere factions dissolved; ultra-conservatives lined up shoulder to shoulder with the most progressive Marians, all with their faces set obdurately against the wolfshead in the Forum Romanum.
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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What if anything caused that wolfshead Saturninus to act the way he does is immaterial.
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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Bestia doesn’t matter, everyone knows him for a wolfshead.
The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991
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"Gaius Marius," said Marcus Aemilius Scaurus in the House when the lex Manila had been passed, empowering the consuls of the day to call for volunteers among the capite censi, "is a ravening, slavering wolfshead, running amok!
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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"So you’re going to yield the center of the stage to a posturing wolfshead like Saturninus?
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
ruzuzu commented on the word wolfshead
So I think there was a BBC version of Robin Hood in the 1980's where Herne the Hunter was Robin's mentor... and Robin got called wolfshead every so often. I always assumed it meant something like rascal or scoundrel.
January 6, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word wolfshead
Ah--there it is, with a hyphen: wolf's-head.
January 6, 2011
yarb commented on the word wolfshead
I watched that version. I remember thinking Herne the hunter was just awesome, but I couldn't understand why a hunter would dress up as a deer.
Robin Hood stories (in heaven knows what edition) are one of the earliest things I remember being read before bed as a kid.
January 6, 2011
Gammerstang commented on the word wolfshead
(noun) - (1) An outlaw, meaning a person who might be killed with impugnity, like a wolf. --Thomas Tayler's Law Glossary, 1856 (2) In Old English Law, a cry for the pursuit of an outlaw as one to be hunted down like a wolf; an outlaw. Originally found in the phrase "to cry wolf's head." --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1928
April 22, 2018