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After killing their victims, they cut off any portions of the body -- usually the breasts and thighs -- they fancy most for eating, and then mutilate the rest with the signia of their society, _i. e._, long and deep scratchings, which are made either with the claws of a leopard or some other beast, or with sharp iron nails.
Werwolves Elliott O'Donnell 1918
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Upon its bow was emblazoned the signia of a lesser noble of a far city of the empire of Helium.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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Head to the local big-box electronics store and buy yourself: a Panasonic home-theater system ($500), an In signia 50-inch plasma HDTV ($700), an Apple 8GB iPod Touch ($175), a Sony
NY Post: News 2010
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And unauthorized or fraudulent use of certain in - signia, badges, names or titles.
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(See 1902, 430; 1903, 275; 1908, 280; 1920, 367 (in. signia of American Legion).)
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(See 1902, 430; 1903, 275; 1908, 280; 1920, 367 (in. signia of American Legion).)
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Those crumbling walls of stone and adobe, stately in their desolation, are the ruins of San Juan Capistrano, La Soledad, or some other of the missions in the heart of some sleepy Mexican town, where once flourished beautiful gardens and flowering orchards, where sparkled and fell in cadence soft fountains, when the padres 'word was law, and the savage Indians were initiated in the mysteries of the immortality of the soul under the signia of the cross.
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Those crumbling walls of stone and adobe, stately in their desolation, are the ruins of San Juan Capistrano, La Soledad, or some other of the missions in the heart of some sleepy Mexican town, where once flourished beautiful gardens and flowering orchards, where sparkled and fell in cadence soft fountains, when the padres 'word was law, and the savage Indians were initiated in the mysteries of the immortality of the soul under the signia of the cross.
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Those crumbling walls of stone and adobe, stately in their desolation, are the ruins of San Juan Capistrano, La Soledad, or some other of the missions in the heart of some sleepy Mexican town, where once flourished beautiful gardens and flowering orchards, where sparkled and fell in cadence soft fountains, when the padres 'word was law, and the savage Indians were initiated in the mysteries of the immortality of the soul under the signia of the cross.
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