''Brag'' originally meant to make a crackling noise
...ck; as an ass; as a naked man without a head; and as four men holding up a white sheet.
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...e haunches of a lion and the feet of a hart. Its name comes from the great noise it emits from its belly, a barking like "thirty couple hounds questing".
...y of the Grail, though he says it is "wondrously large" and interprets the noise and subsequent gruesome death by its own offspring as a symbol of impious c
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'''Abraham Lincoln''' has long been said to haunt the White House.
*Margaret Truman's hearing of tappings that caused Harry Truman to order the White House renovated, keeping the building from falling down, have been attribut
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...eighteen feet across the wings as it flew, the body dark brown, the breast white, neck long, and beak long and straight." In the stiff clay of the river ban
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Dobhar-chu comes in various colours, one phenotype is described as white with short fur, and has features quite like an otter and has a black or dar
...the Dobhar-chu, stabbing it in the heart. As it died, it made a whistling noise, and its mate arose from the lough. Its mate chased the man but he killed i
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...f ''Haus-schmiedlein'', little House-smiths, from their sometimes making a noise as if labouring hard at the anvil.
...ith long beards. They haunt the mines, and are dressed like miners, with a white hood to their shirts and leather aprons, and are provided with lanterns,
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...of towns, and he makes his approach known by a strange, whirring, roaring noise. As soon as this is heard, all women must shut themselves up in their house
...le Oro himself, in a long robe hung with shells, and a wooden mask painted white, with the lips smeared with blood, parades the town with a numerous followi
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Yumboes are described as being about two feet high, of a white colour,
...omes sour they drink of it till it intoxicates them, and then make a great noise, beating Jaloff drums on the hills.
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...ts or other entities might have an easier time manipulating white, chaotic noise to some order than they would have moving, for example, an upside-down glas
...or a colleague that has died. The voices can also manifest over the white noise between untuned stations on a radio.
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...however, they were represented as birds, and behind the temple there were white marble statues of maidens with birds' feet. (Paus. viii. 22. § 5.)
...various interpretations, especially as an archer but also as a rattle. The noise, archery, and sinister birds associated with the constellations may reflect
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...ir bodies look like a fish's, but they have a snake's tail and they make a noise like mandarin ducks. If you eat some, you won't suffer from a swollen absce
...of alligators". Guo adds that the ''jiao'' "has a small head, narrow neck, white scales, is oviparous, can grow up to ten meters long, and eats people."
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...g so that they were sure the boat must be buried under them. At length the noise ceased, and when they ventured to peep out, not a stone was to be seen.
*The creature is said to have been attacked in 1701 by the first white settler of Detroit, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who soon after lost his f
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:... the whole area before the statue was filled with a loud noise of flutes and drums so that the cries of wailing should not reach the ears
:Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud,
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...making great leaps. Several reports mention that he could breathe blue and white flames and that he wore sharp metallic claws at his fingertips. At least tw
...and that his clothing, which appeared to be very tight-fitting, resembled white oilskin. Without saying a word he caught hold of her and began tearing her
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...human thoughts. They also possess the ability to make any human or animal noise they choose. A skinwalker may use the voice of a relative or the cry of an
...s recalled. "Whatever this thing was, it wore a man's clothes. It had on a white and blue checked shirt and long pants. Its arms were raised over its head,
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...orth the spines with which it is covered, instead of hair, and it utters a noise resembling the united sound of a pipe and a trumpet; it is not less swift o
...magic duo Siegfried & Roy was seriously injured when bitten by one of his white tigers named Montecore, a name likely derived from 'manticore'.
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...nto the 17-year-old sixth former's bedroom. There was neither struggle nor noise, and he allowed Lesley to put on a dressing gown and slippers before quietl
:''SWAN SHOPPING CENTRE KIDDERMINSTER DELIVER £50000 IN A WHITE VAN''
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* In 1922 Walt Disney created a black and white silent short of the same name.
...tle, and was seized with a strong desire to enter it. The cat, hearing the noise of the carriage-wheels, ran forward in a great hurry, and standing at the g
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...place in the summer of 1969 and which he termed Helter Skelter, after the White Album track of that name, the Family had little to fear; they would wait ou
* Since 2003, a Orange county NY based Noise-punk band known as "Sparrows with Machine-guns" has done a cover of "Home i
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From German ''poltern'', meaning to rumble or make noise, and Geist, meaning "ghost", "spirit", or "embodiment" denotes a spirit or
...t Peeves appears in colour, where the other ghosts at the school appear as white, misty figures.
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