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1. They talked as they assembled the effigy
2. ” Aaron sketched a brief outline of their years under her care, and the effigy was complete
3. But if it hadn’t gotten to the crusader in effigy stage, all you had to do was stop and say:
4. inside the open mouth of the effigy, trickling down its masked
5. When my mother asked him what his wife had given him, she remembers he said, “A stack of arrows and a bow in my front lawn, along with an effigy of me
6. Edwin spotted his mother’s woollen haired effigy standing nearby, and found it hard to resist calling out to her
7. My self-esteem fell down up to the subsoil and there it remained the rest of the time, while I was looking for the precise words that abated a little the terrible impact that my new beggar effigy was given me
8. They burned the American flag and the effigy of President Ronald Reagan
9. Somewhere in this palace lay the effigy or image which had in times past served as oracle for the priests of Keshan
10. It was no effigy of stone or metal or ivory
11. They have put a statue of that swine in the temple of Mitra, and people go and wail before it, hailing it as the holy effigy of a saintly monarch who was done to death by a red-handed barbarian
12. �� Said Nancy, handing him a two-dollar coin with the effigy of Queen Elizabeth II on one side
13. The shattered effigy of Nelson came to rest with his blind eye turned towards the Old Admiralty, a habit he had developed during his distinguished career
14. The idea of throwing darts at Pierce’s junk in effigy was pretty appealing
15. The effigy from that tomb asked me
16. clay effigy of a reindeer, decorated with real antlers and fur
17. dismounting from Rocinante, went and stood over him of the Mirrors, and unlacing his helmet to see if he was dead, and to give him air if he should happen to be alive, he saw--who can say what he saw, without filling all who hear it with astonishment, wonder, and awe? He saw, the history says, the very countenance, the very face, the very look, the very physiognomy, the very effigy, the very image of the bachelor Samson Carrasco! As soon as he saw it he called out in a loud voice, "Make haste here, Sancho, and behold what thou art to see but not to believe; quick, my son, and learn what magic can do, and wizards and enchanters are capable of
18. He saw before him an officer delegated to enforce the law, and perfectly well knew that it would be as unavailing to seek pity from a magistrate decked with his official scarf, as to address a petition to some cold marble effigy
19. Exactly how the stone for the sarcophagus—over ten feet long and four feet tall—had been hauled to its present site was undoubtedly a story worth hearing, but Merlin already knew whose hands had created the larger-than-life recumbent effigy of the saint which adorned it
20. You turned in from the street, as if entering a secluded orchard, where you came upon the foot of a disjointed staircase, guarded by a moss-stained effigy of some saintly bishop, mitred and staffed, and bearing the indignity of a broken nose meekly, with his fine stone hands crossed on his breast
21. ) In token of her appreciation the chief purser had, been asked to our party and he, in token of his appreciation, had sent before him the life-size effigy of a swan, moulded in ice and filled with caviar
22. And burn a broken effigy of me and you
23. Brooke, and within ten yards of him, the effigy of himself: buff-colored waistcoat, eye-glass, and neutral physiognomy, painted on rag; and there had arisen, apparently in the air, like the note of the cuckoo, a parrot-like, Punch-voiced echo of his words
24. Bulstrode asked, reprehensively, what the new police was doing; but a voice could not well be collared, and an attack on the effigy of the candidate would have been too equivocal, since Hawley probably meant it to be pelted
25. He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not put anything in its place
26. With me supposedly dead, I knew I could search, find the Beast, get revenge! So I hung myself in effigy
27. It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new twenty-franc pieces of the Restoration, on whose effigy the little Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath
28. Death is the waxen effigy in the coffin when you were six and Grandfather passed away — looking like a great fallen vulture in his casket, silent, withdrawn, no more to tell you how to be a good boy, no more to comment succinctly on politics
29. There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle tells a tale of domesticity; there the core of an apple which has entertained literary opinions becomes an apple-core once more; the effigy on the big sou becomes frankly covered with verdigris, Caiphas' spittle meets Falstaff's puking, the louis-d'or which comes from the gaming-house jostles the nail whence hangs the rope's end of the suicide
30. The feet appear to have rested on the effigy of a beast, the remains of which indicate it to have represented a lion