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  • I saw three white-hooded heads riding out to the city limits in their jalopy on large balloon tires that were pink like skin under a blood-like sky, past the buildings and factories crowding the landscape.

    carbon dating Jerry Ratch 2011

  • Following rival clans at a time of clashing paganism and Christianity, it is a ceaseless flow of ravishing images: nuns clasping doves while climbing to a convent on a hill; the maiden Marketa's white-hooded head resting on her father's shoulder as they drive through a snow-bound landscape; stags glimpsed through trees in the aftermath of violence.

    Reality Czech Kristin M. Jones 2011

  • Like the Catholics, the Jews peered behind the Prohibition banner and saw the white-hooded hatred of the Ku Klux Klan and the foaming xenophobia of the nativist pastors who dominated the Methodist and Baptist churches.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Like the Catholics, the Jews peered behind the Prohibition banner and saw the white-hooded hatred of the Ku Klux Klan and the foaming xenophobia of the nativist pastors who dominated the Methodist and Baptist churches.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Or, is my duplicity blowing your white-hooded head as we speak?

    Patrick Sauer: In Which I Extend An Olive Branch to White Supremacists 2009

  • Suddenly someone grabbed my neck, and I twisted around to see a white-hooded Klansman looking down at me.

    Night Fires George Edward Stanley 2009

  • It can refer to a violent burning, white-hooded hatred of a different race, or deep-seated attitudes in generally good and well-meaning people, etc.

    Matthew Yglesias » What’s the Joke? 2007

  • And if getting into an elevator with two Mexicans makes you and your white-hooded friends nervous, get ready to piss yourself.

    Jackie Guerra: What Immigrants Really Want--And Why Bush's Plan Won't Stop Them 2008

  • She found a tissue and held it to her face, watching as two hulking figures dressed in white-hooded coveralls and heavy work boots emerged from the pickup truck, hurried to the still figure on the ground, and pulled the motorcycle helmet from his head.

    The Messenger Jan Burke 2008

  • Jay says: katy, when their hateful, warmongering heroes are bounced from office (and they will be), they go back under their rocks and their white-hooded sheets and their miserable, angry existences.

    Think Progress » Rice Suggests Iraq War Resolution Could Allow For War Against Syria 2005

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