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  • On the street: multicolored neon angels, in silhouette, leaning out from the tops of the buildings like ship figureheads.†   (source)
  • He's smart enough to be president, but he says he has no interest in being a figurehead.†   (source)
  • Whatever we might think of this imposing man in his pointed hat, he is a figurehead who represents the will of Kilanga.†   (source)
  • The transparent elected have been used as figureheads, shielding the backroom from view.†   (source)
  • Raven pushes Y.T. through the room ahead of him, like she's a figurehead on his kayak, and everywhere they go, people are shoved out of her way by Raven's almost palpable personal force field.†   (source)
  • The figurehead of a regime whose power is soon to be shattered, its rule ended.†   (source)
  • He saw a huge ship in a dry dock, workers scrambling to finish the hull, a guy with a blowtorch welding a bronze dragon figurehead to the prow.†   (source)
  • Unless you can overcome the Shade's magic, you will be reduced to no more than a figurehead.†   (source)
  • His instincts of an agitator remained dormant as long as Don Apolinar Moscote was a figurehead.†   (source)
  • Soldiers broke into his house, ransacked his snail collection, his shells, his butterflies, his bottles, the ship figureheads he had rescued from so many seas, his books, his paintings, and his unfinished poems, looking for subversive weapons and hidden Communists, until his old poet's heart began to falter.†   (source)
  • The prow of the ship had hit squarely between two of the giant fig trees and its figurehead had been wedged, unseen and unscathed, while the ship collapsed behind her.†   (source)
  • Arya stood at the prow, one hand resting on the gilded figurehead, a maiden with a bowl of fruit.†   (source)
  • "Oh, yes, a fine one-handed figurehead he will make," spat Nahuseresh.†   (source)
  • He's a figurehead.†   (source)
  • I found a number of odd economic bedfellows who I think may be using Canadian figureheads to buy up Canadian properties.†   (source)
  • Then I saw the figurehead.†   (source)
  • He is simply a figurehead.†   (source)
  • I was annoyed at both him and Blackie — at my company commander because I resented being put to sleep against my wishes; and as for my platoon sergeant, I had a dirty hunch that it wouldn't have been done if he weren't the real boss and myself just a figurehead.†   (source)
  • She was draped heavily in white, shaded with blue, like a Queen, and she stood braced and looking upward like the figurehead on a Viking ship.†   (source)
  • To Reich she was the painted figurehead of a pornographic ship… the famous Gilt Corpse.†   (source)
  • a book by the former figurehead of the antiwar movement
  • The bronze dragon figurehead creaked and clacked.†   (source)
  • Upon its accursed figurehead you shall place the Key, David Menlo.†   (source)
  • The bronze dragon figurehead glinted in the morning light.†   (source)
  • Festus the figurehead creaked and steamed.†   (source)
  • Fore and aft rose thirty-foot-tall figureheads shaped like snarling wolves.†   (source)
  • But on some, the figurehead blazed with silver and gold.†   (source)
  • Festus the figurehead breathed fire several times.†   (source)
  • Behind him, David lowered Bram's Key into the figurehead's opening.†   (source)
  • The bronze figurehead at the bow of Shayala's Dance sent up wings of salt spray as it cut the waves.†   (source)
  • Even her figurehead had not escaped; one of his arms had broken off, the one with all his scrolls.†   (source)
  • Even Festus the figurehead was trying to help.†   (source)
  • He'd treated Festus the figurehead to his favorite brew—thirty-weight motor oil and Tabasco sauce.†   (source)
  • Her figurehead was carved and inlaid with gold by dwarves.†   (source)
  • The figurehead, a stern-looking hawk carved of dark wood, bobbed just beyond reach.†   (source)
  • Is there anything more embarrassing than sailing into battle with half-finished figureheads?†   (source)
  • Her hull was black and gold, her figurehead a lion with an upraised paw.†   (source)
  • Festus the figurehead could blow some serious flames.†   (source)
  • A metal ring on the figurehead's arched back grazed Max's hand.†   (source)
  • When she got to the figurehead, she put her hand on Festus's neck.†   (source)
  • Festus the figurehead blew flames and charbroiled them out of the sky.†   (source)
  • If this was their ship, she was their figurehead, turned on its back, sky-facing.†   (source)
  • If the thirty. minute deadline expires, news of the disaster is flashed to CosaNostra Pizza Headquarters and relayed from there to Uncle Enzo himself-the Sicilian Colonel Sanders, the Andy Griffith of Bensorihurst, the straight razor-swinging figment of many a Deliverator's nightmares, the Capo and prime figurehead of CosaNostra Pizza, Incorporated--who will be on the phone to the customer within five minutes, apologizing profusely.†   (source)
  • The vessel was Mycenaean in style, and bore a figurehead so massive it must have altered the draught of the ship.†   (source)
  • Nat and the redheaded seaman who had painted the Dolphin's figurehead that morning on the river were cheerfully exchanging insults with a cluster of young bound boys who had stopped to enjoy the spectacle, the two culprits holding their own in an unchastened manner that delighted the onlookers.†   (source)
  • From up here, he could see her more clearly; the lean striped hull, the bronze figurehead, the billowing sail.†   (source)
  • Romans screamed and scattered as a full-sized dragon charged through the forum—a beast even scarier than the bronze dragon figurehead on the Argo II.†   (source)
  • Then as you got closer, you might notice the giant figurehead—a dark-haired maiden in a Greek chiton, wrapped in chains with a look of horror on her face, as if she could smell the stench of all the monsters she was being forced to carry.†   (source)
  • Her figurehead showed a laughing woman holding an infant by one foot, but the woman's cheeks and the babe's bottom were both pocked by wormholes.†   (source)
  • Look at the figureheads.†   (source)
  • Through a fog of pain, she heard the ship's figurehead, Festus the bronze dragon, creaking in alarm and shooting fire.†   (source)
  • From the porthole where the anchor chain entered the ship, he clambered up the ridges that supported the painted figurehead, over the railing, and onto the deck.†   (source)
  • Huntress was the name she bore, behind a figurehead of a slender maiden clad in leaves and brandishing a spear.†   (source)
  • A couple of the sailors had nailed the figurehead over the door, to the approval of all except the king, who wondered aloud if her undressed bosom might be considered unseemly.†   (source)
  • He understood that in spite of his present title of civil and military leader of the town, Don Apolinar Moscote was once more a figurehead.†   (source)
  • Victarion's gaze was drawn to the iron figurehead at her prow, the mouthless maiden with the windblown hair and outstretched arm.†   (source)
  • As they drew closer, she saw the ship's figurehead, a merman with a golden crown blowing on a great seashell horn.†   (source)
  • Don Apolinar Moscote, the benevolent ruler whose activity had been reduced to the maintenance from his scanty resources of two policemen armed with wooden clubs, was a figurehead.†   (source)
  • Anyway, I revived him as a figurehead.†   (source)
  • As it got closer, Percy could see bronze shields glinting along the sides, billowing sails, and a familiar-looking figurehead shaped like a metal dragon.†   (source)
  • His only other friend, Festus the dragon, had been reduced to a figurehead when his control disk had gotten destroyed on their last adventure.†   (source)
  • By the count of ten, a full-size Viking warship bobbed in the surf with two oversize oars, a figurehead carved like a wild boar, and a green sail emblazoned with the Hotel Valhalla logo.†   (source)
  • Tyrion and Penny watched from the forecastle, huddled by the figurehead and holding hands, careful to stay out of the way of captain and crew.†   (source)
  • Another of the ships would be named Sweet Cersei, and would bear a gilded figurehead carved in her likeness, clad in mail and lion helm, with spear in hand.†   (source)
  • The fighting had raged bitter and bloody for most of a day and well into the night before the wood began to splinter and Meraxes' iron figurehead, a laughing jester's face, came crashing through.†   (source)
  • Once upon a time, Leo would have worried about all of them being together belowdecks with nobody at the helm, but ever since Piper had permanently woken up Festus with her charmspeak—a feat Leo still did not understand—the dragon figurehead had been more than capable of running the Argo II by himself.†   (source)
  • The squire Whitebeard, standing by the figurehead with one lean hand curled about his tall hardwood staff, turned toward them and said, "Balerion the Black Dread was two hundred years old when he died during the reign of Jaehaerys the Conciliator.†   (source)
  • Freezing water crashed over the side to drench the two as Max crawled toward the ship's figurehead, squinting as snow and bits of ice whipped against his face in a sudden tempest.†   (source)
  • At her forecastle stood a grotesque figurehead, some worm-eaten wooden eminence with a constipated look and a scroll tucked up under one arm.†   (source)
  • She fixed her eyes on the figurehead.†   (source)
  • "Swan ships," the great vessels from the Summer Isles were called in the Seven Kingdoms, for their billowing white sails and for their figureheads, most of which depicted birds.†   (source)
  • When they reached the bow of the ship, the figurehead turned a hundred and eighty degrees to look at them.†   (source)
  • He found Penny on the forecastle, where he had so often found Ser Jorah, standing by the rail beside the cog's hideous half-rotted figurehead and gazing out across the inky sea.†   (source)
  • She saw huge flat-bottomed barges too, heaped high with crates and barrels and pushed along by twenty polemen to a side, and fancy floating houses with lanterns of colored glass, velvet drapes, and brazen figureheads.†   (source)
  • The three eagles still circled overhead, but they made no attempt to land on the ship, probably because Festus the figurehead blew fire whenever they got close.†   (source)
  • After making sure his friends were aboard and safely below deck, he lashed the venti to the prow of the Argo II (which Festus was not happy about), straddled the figurehead, and yelled, "Giddyup!"†   (source)
  • Under him served four mates, freedmen all, and fifty slaves bound to the ship, each with a crude version of the cog's figurehead tattooed upon one cheek.†   (source)
  • Every once in a while Festus the figurehead creaked and squeaked through the speakers, reporting the autopilot status in that weird machine language that only Leo could understand.†   (source)
  • Two hundred feet long, with a bronze-plated hull, mounted repeating crossbows fore and aft, a flaming metal dragon for a figurehead, and two rotating ballistae amidships that could fire explosive bolts powerful enough to blast through concrete …. well, it wasn't the most appropriate ride for a meet-and-greet with the neighbors.†   (source)
  • Today he'd removed it from the control panel and shut down Festus the figurehead for maintenance—something about rewiring his processor for a motor-control upgrade with the sphere, whatever the heck that meant.†   (source)
  • Their bronze dragon figurehead, Festus, was coughing up smoke like he had a hairball, and Leo could tell from the groaning sounds on the port side that some of the aerial oars had been knocked out of alignment or broken off completely, which explained why the ship was listing and shuddering as it flew, the engine wheezing like an asthmatic steam train.†   (source)
  • "The King of England," he observed, "is only a figurehead.†   (source)
  • For indeed, we are nothing but figureheads to complex forces which seem to be under a kind of impulse.†   (source)
  • I saw the most wonderful figureheads, that had all been far over the ocean.†   (source)
  • He had worked very hard; he had won his position by sheer ability (being the son of a shopkeeper); loved his profession; made a fine figurehead at ceremonies and spoke well—all of which had by the time he was knighted given him a heavy look, a weary look (the stream of patients being so incessant, the responsibilities and privileges of his profession so onerous), which weariness, together with his grey hairs, increased the extraordinary distinction of his presence and gave him the…†   (source)
  • Aristocracy and plutocracy still furnish the figureheads of politics; but they are now dependent on the votes of the promiscuously bred masses.†   (source)
  • "And a brave lad you were, and smart too," answered Silver, shaking hands so heartily that all the barrel shook, "and a finer figurehead for a gentleman of fortune I never clapped my eyes on."†   (source)
  • 9 Powder and Arms THE HISPANIOLA lay some way out, and we went under the figureheads and round the sterns of many other ships, and their cables sometimes grated underneath our keel, and sometimes swung above us.†   (source)
  • During the whole of that period Napoleon, who seems to us to have been the leader of all these movements—as the figurehead of a ship may seem to a savage to guide the vessel—acted like a child who, holding a couple of strings inside a carriage, thinks he is driving it.†   (source)
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