death's-heads

Suddenly, without warning, two peering death's-heads confronted each other.

In a Far Country 2010

Suddenly, without warning, two peering death's-heads confronted each other.

In a Far Country 2010

Jesus, four floors below careless diners would be wolfing steak and fried oysters in the breakfast-room - and those hideous white death's-heads were before me, Joe's pistol was behind - and Atropos was restraining my questioners with a languid gesture of his cane.

THE NUMBERS 2010

Then prayed I many a prayer to the sickly death's-heads;

Ezra Pound greenintegerblog 2008

Jesus, four floors below careless diners would be wolfing steak and fried oysters in the breakfast-room - and those hideous white death's-heads were before me, Joe's pistol was behind - and Atropos was restraining my questioners with a languid gesture of his cane.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

Jesus, four floors below careless diners would be wolfing steak and fried oysters in the breakfast-room - and those hideous white death's-heads were before me, Joe's pistol was behind - and Atropos was restraining my questioners with a languid gesture of his cane.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

In the windows, the sugar skulls with names on their snowy brows: JOSfE, CARLOTTA, RAMONA, LuisAl All the names on chocolate death's-heads and frosted bones.

The Machineries of Joy Bradbury, Ray, 1920- 1949

He was a kind-looking old gentleman with white hair, and he wore a beautiful black robe, tastefully decorated with death's-heads.

William Tell Told Again 1928

Their banners and drums were decorated with death's-heads.

The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul 1923

And whether they dispensed with it or not, the lives of the workers in the acid house was not much more than a matter of a few years ... big, hulking, healthy Swedes, newly arrived, with roses in their cheeks like fair, young girls, faded perceptibly from day to day, into hollow-cheeked, jaundice-coloured death's-heads.

Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922