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Examples
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In that painting, Dupre's body is depicted with disarming sexual alacrity; but her face, which looks back at Spitzer and bears a halo, is contorted to look like a jackal's.
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The scratching was initially done with a jackal's backbone.
Mark C. Miller: Least Known Contributions of History's Greatest Civilizations 2009
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Bluebird has been 'modded out' with a jackal's head (a nod to the Egyptian god Anubis).
Avatar Identity Theft Prompts Review of Gaia and Virtual World Rules 2009
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So why did that jackal's national security house boy Hadley ridicule me in his leaked memo to the Zionist rag NY Times.
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That leads me to wonder if the jackal's easy domestication and sense of smell could have been useful to early humans in some way.
Controversial origins of the domestic dog Darren Naish 2006
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But his eye was drawn to the blot on the landscape: half a dozen vultures hunched over a jackal's carcass.
'Finding Nouf' 2008
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They all wore black relieved only by a stylized jackal's head on the chest of the uniform, an affectation that I found irritating.
All Together Dead Harris, Charlaine 2007
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Outlined in a stiff white frame of starched linen, Sister's eyes, nose, and mouth leaped out, a mask from a dream, a great rawboned jackal's muzzle.
Sister Godzilla 2001
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Outlined in a stiff white frame of starched linen, Sister's eyes, nose, and mouth leaped out, a mask from a dream, a great rawboned jackal's muzzle.
Sister Godzilla 2001
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The shadows left Shivetya looking like he had a dog or jackal's head, which sparked a momentary recollection of childhood idols.
Soldiers Live Cook, Glen 2000
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