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  • I entered at 5: 45pm, got an arm-band that I didn't even have to put on (the sticky part pulls at my arm hair), got a 'buy a drink and get a free popcorn' coupon, and waltzed into the theater.

    Scott Mendelson: Thoughts on Fox's "Avatar Day" 2009

  • And then, for fear all of his finery would not be displayed, he bared his right arm, adorned with a golden arm-band and an ivory circlet clasped with a plate of shining metal.

    Satyricon 2007

  • Holmes tugged the cloth free and spread it out, revealing it as an arm-band with a red cross painted onto it.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • Then Russell nudged the valuables and Red Cross arm-band to one side to prise with her finger-nail at the flat oil-cloth shape that lay beneath, tugging its corner to work it loose from the jewellery, laying it on the dust-cloth to unfold the wrapping.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • Holmes tugged the cloth free and spread it out, revealing it as an arm-band with a red cross painted onto it.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • This blog will be wearing a black arm-band for the next day in mourning for our shared cultural heritage, as the Library of Alexandria burns anew.

    Boing Boing: January 12, 2003 - January 18, 2003 Archives 2003

  • Then Russell nudged the valuables and Red Cross arm-band to one side to prise with her finger-nail at the flat oil-cloth shape that lay beneath, tugging its corner to work it loose from the jewellery, laying it on the dust-cloth to unfold the wrapping.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • He rubbed absently at the black arm-band around his sleeve.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • He rubbed absently at the black arm-band around his sleeve.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • The two teenagers stepped backward as a man wearing the arm-band of a part-time policeman went by.

    The City Who Fought McCaffrey, Anne 1993

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