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  • It was less ridiculous than Christian Bales 'similar Bat-voice, but I always imagined' schach's voice being more dispassionate than growly, although he did use that kind of delivery when it was most appropriate, at least.

    Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2009

  • The final decorations and the schach covering will be added right after the conclusion of Yom Kippur.

    Approaching the Day of Reckoning--Yom Kippur 2009 2009

  • The final decorations and the schach covering will be added right after the conclusion of Yom Kippur.

    Approaching the Day of Reckoning--Yom Kippur 2009 2009

  • The schach actually seems not to be there at all - the leaves we see are tacked to the frame on the outside and hanging down.

    I Yid it Myself | Jewschool 2007

  • He is a devoted if selective Freudian, and one of the prin-cipal sources of his cited evidence favoring certain psychoanalytic propositions has been the supposedly informative Ror-schach test.

    'Out, Damned Blot' Masling, Joseph 2004

  • It may be seen from this circumstance that the minister completely governed the schach; indeed he succeeded to such an extent, that the schach honoured him as a prophet, and unconditionally carried out all his suggestions.

    A Woman's Journey Round the World Ida Pfeiffer 1827

  • There was no viceroy in Tebris until about six months since, but only a governor; the present reigning schach, Nesr-I-Din, raised the province of Aderbeidschan to a vice-royalty, and decreed that every eldest son of the future inheritor of the empire should reside here as viceroy until he came to the throne.

    A Woman's Journey Round the World Ida Pfeiffer 1827

  • This soon excited the envy of the prime minister Haggi-Mirza-Aagassi; he urged the schach to recall his brother, and represented to him that he would engage the affections of the people too much, and that he might at last make himself king.

    A Woman's Journey Round the World Ida Pfeiffer 1827

  • For a long time the schach paid no attention to these insinuations, for he loved his brother sincerely; but the minister did not rest until he had attained his wishes.

    A Woman's Journey Round the World Ida Pfeiffer 1827

  • Behmen Mirza, who knew all that was going on at court, hastened to Teheran for the purpose of exculpating himself before the schach.

    A Woman's Journey Round the World Ida Pfeiffer 1827

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