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The big black snake promptly flares its hood and snaps the embroidered beige skull cap off the charmer's head, as the flute-like instrument flutters in the background, and a goat-skin hand-drum pounds...pam,pam,pam-pam-pam.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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In that instant his tiny searchlight, sharp and white, had shown him what a thousand years would not en. able him to forget – a man, huge and blond, yellow-haired and yellow-bearded, naked except for soft-tanned moccasins and what seemed a goat-skin about his middle.
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The big black snake promptly flares its hood and snaps the embroidered beige skull cap off the charmer's head, as the flute-like instrument flutters in the background, and a goat-skin hand-drum pounds...pam,pam,pam-pam-pam.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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The big black snake promptly flares its hood and snaps the embroidered beige skull cap off the charmer's head, as the flute-like instrument flutters in the background, and a goat-skin hand-drum pounds...pam,pam,pam-pam-pam.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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The big black snake promptly flares its hood and snaps the embroidered beige skull cap off the charmer's head, as the flute-like instrument flutters in the background, and a goat-skin hand-drum pounds...pam,pam,pam-pam-pam.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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"When the World Was Young" opens with Dave Slotter, a would-be burglar in Mill Valley, California, entering a walled property at night with an "electric night-stick" and stumbling upon a huge, naked, muscular, blonde, bearded man wearing a goat-skin around his middle.
“Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!” 2008
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His comment that the famous Buchenwald lampshades were “absolutely proven” to be made of “goat-skin”—even though there is no record of any proof of this claim—would later become a staple of Holocaust-denier rhetoric.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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All the way to the hospital, I kept seeing babies wrapped in black goat-skin strewn all over the highway; some of whom I had no choice but to drive over.
My baby 2009
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Dear friend, dear Bacchic god, whither art roaming alone, waving thy auburn locks, while I, thy minister, do service to the one-eyed Cyclops, a slave and wanderer I, clad in this wretched goat-skin dress, severed from thy love?
The Cyclops 2008
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Ope wide the portal of thy gaping throat, Cyclops; for strangers 'limbs, both boiled and grilled, are ready from off the coals for the to gnaw and tear and mince up small, reclining in thy shaggy goat-skin coat.
The Cyclops 2008
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