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Crossbones   /krˈɔsbˌoʊnz/   Listen
Crossbones

noun
1.
Two crossed bones (or a representation of two crossed bones) used as a symbol danger or death.



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"Crossbones" Quotes from Famous Books



... storms, and to run from them. Steam-frigates have ended forever the pirates of the Spanish Main. The long, low, black schooner, which could sail dead to windward through the pages of the cheap "yellow-covers," and the likeness of which sported its skull and crossbones on the said covers, is to be met with nowhere else. Neither the Isle of Pines nor the numberless West India keys know her or ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 15, January, 1859 • Various
... attic on the street a rakish craft flies the skull and crossbones, and roves the Spanish Main on rainy afternoons. Innocent victims—girls, chiefly, who will tattle unless a horrid threat is laid upon them—are forced blindfold to walk the plank. If the wind blows, scratching ...
— Wappin' Wharf - A Frightful Comedy of Pirates • Charles S. Brooks
... word for bringing up ideas!" exclaimed Eric in reply. "It makes one think of the old stories we used to read as kids, of the black flag with the skull and crossbones and all that sort of thing. Too bad ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... stamps arrived they were seized and destroyed. Newspapers appeared with a skull and crossbones printed where the stamp should have been. There were riots and ...
— This Country Of Ours • H. E. Marshall Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
... that old skull and crossbones," he said as he scattered the pieces upon the dark and disappearing waves of the stream; "but I should think it would ...
— The Innocence of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton


Words linked to "Crossbones" :   symbol, symbolic representation, symbolisation, symbolization, skull and crossbones


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