How To Use Fawkes In A Sentence

  • Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Firework Night, is an annual commemoration observed on 5 November, primarily in England.
  • The night of the fifteenth is the Guy Fawkes night of Islám. The Faith of Islam
  • As I wrote last year, a straw man which represented Fawkes standing in the middle.
  • In his confession, Fawkes claimed that he was approached by Thomas Wintour in the Easter of 1604 to join the plotters.
  • I love Bonfire Night because it’s an excuse to look shocking (windswept is never a good look), and whether you are celebrating the fact that Guy Fawkes was caught or just the fact that he made the attempt at all, everyone is in a relaxed mood and gets together to have a good time then just hang out and spend the night together. …the Tin Foil Lady « Sven’s guide to…
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  • Initially, my postbag would bulge with letters about this issue in October and November as Guy Fawkes Night, November 5, approached.
  • The finale comes when Hammond and his team put Fawkes's unrealised plan to the test.
  • The right-leaning, ex-Tory libertarian Quixotean quester Mr Guido Fawkes GuF really has given up trying on quality control. Guido Fawkes: A Conspiracy Behind Every Windmill
  • Rather than parades, it would be better to celebrate this holiday like the British used to celebrate Guy Fawkes Day – by burning politicians in effigy, or a reasonable facsimile. Memorial Day: Burning Pols in Effigy « Antiwar.com Blog
  • We, at the appeals tribunal do not think Mr Fawkes received a fair trial - and consequently we believe there has been a travesty of justice.
  • When the plotters breached the cellars at Westminster, Fawkes set the explosives under a pile of faggots.
  • What had happened was that a cannon shot had hit the go-down roof just as the rockets went off, and a falling slat had knocked me endways; when I came to the first thing I saw was the firing-frame in ruins, with a beam across it, and I remember thinking, ah well, no more Guy Fawkes night until next year. The Sky Writer
  • We decided to visit York to join in the celebrations for the Guy Fawkes Festival and to do some shopping.
  • It's fireworks night (Guy fawkes, bonfire night, whatever u wanna call it) woOt to fireworks.
  • We only made them around Guy Fawkes as we could take the fuses from commercially made fireworks we bought and use them on the [censored] bombs.
  • The finished design marks the 400th anniversary of the 1605 gunpowder plot, led by infamous York son Guy Fawkes.
  • Retailers in Kingston selling fireworks to underage youths in the run up to Guy Fawkes night had better watch out.
  • Forecasters warned areas of the country with clear skies and bright sunshine during the day are set for the coldest Guy Fawkes night. The Sun
  • Guy Fawkes was executed for treason after he took part in a plot to blow up the British Parliament building.
  • This year will be the last Guy Fawkes day when people can let off crackers, rockets, Catherine wheels and the like.
  • Guy Fawkes and his associates were hung, drawn and quartered in London.
  • Tony Blair's former communications director said the document published online by Paul Staines, who blogs under the name Guido Fawkes, was an early version. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • Children also used to blacken their faces, as Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators might have done.
  • Paul Staines aka hammy blogger Guido Fawkes aka Mr GuF has invented a piggy index for politicians. Archive 2008-02-10
  • They discussed their plan to blow up Parliament House, and shortly afterwards leased a small house in the heart of Westminster, installing Fawkes as caretaker, under the alias of John Johnson.
  • Guy Fawkes and the plotters wanted to strike.
  • On 5 November British children burn effigies of Guy Fawkes.
  • On 5 November British children burn effigies of Guy Fawkes.
  • Now they are holding a ballot to decide which of the villains will win the dubious honour of having his or her effigy burned on a Guy Fawkes bonfire next month.
  • Fawkes was captured as he was about to commit one of the most recklessly bold crimes of that or any century.
  • Forecasters warned areas of the country with clear skies and bright sunshine during the day are set for the coldest Guy Fawkes night. The Sun
  • He had drawn his information from Paul Staines, a former bond trader who writes a blog under the name Guido Fawkes from London. NYT > Home Page
  • Suppose that a person is deputed to buy a substantial quantity of fireworks for a village fireworks display on Guy Fawkes night.
  • The inquiry, led by senior judge Brian Leveson, said Sunday it would call Paul Staines, who blogs under the name Guido Fawkes. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • He had drawn his information from Paul Staines, a former bond trader who writes a blog from London under the name Guido Fawkes. NYT > Home Page
  • Guy Fawkes was executed for treason after he took part in a plot to blow up the British Parliament building.
  • The burning of life-sized effigies of Guy Fawkes on bonfires is a relatively new custom.
  • Paul Staines, who blogs under the name Guido Fawkes, posted a draft of the former Number 10 communications director's written evidence online on Sunday. WalesOnline - Home
  • Paul Staines, who blogs under the name Guido Fawkes, posted a draft of Mr Campbell's written evidence online at the weekend. WalesOnline - Home
  • This story on my blog IS about Iain Dale joining Guido Fawkes in the school of dobbing in their sources. Giving Out Secret Sources: Dale as Bad as Fawkes?
  • Forecasters warned areas of the country with clear skies and bright sunshine during the day are set for the coldest Guy Fawkes night. The Sun
  • Guy Fawkes was executed for treason after he took part in a plot to blow up the British Parliament building.
  • Fawkes's task was to light the slow fuse to ignite the barrels of gunpowder.
  • It emerged on Sunday that political blogger Paul Staines, who runs the Order-order website under the name Guido Fawkes, had been summoned to the inquiry sometime this week. BBC News - Home

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