How To Use Talisman In A Sentence
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He was the talisman, the cog in the clockwork that made the whole mechanism function.
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But you may want to look into some long-term solution that doesn't revolve around an external fetish object such as a crystal or talisman.
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Tattooed crosses, icons and parts of the Sacred Land are all talismans and amulets which are treasured with respect.
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Total Football was more pronounced in the days where the great Johann Cruyff was the talisman of the starting XI, but it still hangs out as an overarching tactic employed by theDutch.
The Volokh Conspiracy » World Cup 2010:
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Making a face, Ethan dug into his jacket pockets, producing an astounding array of charms, talismans, herbs, and potions in corked test-tubes.
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More recent Indian medicine men carried charms, fetishes and sacred talismans in similar deerskin bags that must have been a potent symbol of tribal authority.
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While on his quest for the 12 talismans, Jackie discovers that each one has unique mystical powers, which are bestowed upon its holder.
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Geary was pleased with the performance, and although there are several players nursing injuries the manager will be pleased to welcome back his talisman, Jimmy Hedges.
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Throughout their long and distinguished careers, critics often claimed the two talismanic England midfielders could not play alongside each other for their country.
The Sun
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I`m hoping this precaution may act as a talisman to prevent the ceiling coming down...if I don`t put the dustsheet down, the ceiling will come down for sure, yes?
Stripping again.
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Members of the Banu Sa'd al-Din, a prominent Sufi family in Damascus, made talismans and charms which could reportedly heal the sick and cure the insane.
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The grant of a patent can too often assume a talismanic significance for those closely involved in its conception and development.
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The young warrior is captured by a demon, and actually will need a bit of magical talisman help given he has the demon's boss wizard and his petrification ray to deal with as well.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Mighty Barbarians - 4 Thieves Of Zangabal
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T-shirts and neon bike shorts may have a special place in our hearts (if no longer in our closets), but one time-capsuled craze - the friendship bracelet - has graduated from mere memory to trendy talisman.
Thestar.com - Home Page
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Women will often use the bf lie when they're just not feeling connected, or just wanted to flirt but want somy magic talisman to let them not slut it up that night.
Roissy in DC
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A society that has grown weary of God and politics has few talismans against disaster.
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Perched directly in front of her is a talismanic teapot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Natalie's ashy face and the word croup, acted like a talisman.
Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma
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Maybe this strange talisman contained his secret to the mysteries of life.
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A true talisman is a player who does more than can be measured.
Times, Sunday Times
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Workers in gold and ivory, in gems and talismans, in brass and fine linen and purple had done the marvels which those courtier adventurers brought with them over the sea, and to these, from year to year, had been added the treasure of private chests -- necklaces and coronals and hair-loops, bottles and vases of glass coloured with metallic oxides, and patterned aggry-beads, now sometimes found in ancient tombs on the Ashantee coasts.
Romance Island
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I am their lucky talisman; my business has never been so good.
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I think I'll unthread the bracelet and use some of the chips in a new talisman, use the rest in jewellery to sell.
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Lucky charms, amulets, and talismans have been found in virtually all civilizations throughout recorded history.
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According to Buddhist scholars, the phallus is a cautionary symbol of the dangers of the male ego; for ordinary Bhutanese, it’s a talisman against evil spirits.
Hidden Kingdom
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People use various methods to protect themselves from it and to treat the symptoms: amulets, charms, talismans, spells, incantations, vows and sacrifices, and so on.
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Jewelry is a key tool, usually stacked and multistranded rhinestones are an everyday talisman.
The Shopping Diet
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In fact, however, there is no talismanic significance to the word " proposal ".
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Merlin Michael Williams appeared at a magistrates' court in the southern English coastal town of Portsmouth wearing his full Druidic regalia of green robe and blue cloak, with talismans around his neck.
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No mere textual reading or logical talisman can solve the dilemma.
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It's become a ritual with her, like saying the rosary for Catholics, by rote, without thinking; a talisman for good luck.
MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
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Moving across the earth, close to the ground, in a small band of fellow penitents bearing a pilgrim scallop shell as their talisman, sinners pondered their own life journey, and listened to the tales of others along the way.
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There exist a myriad of spells, amulets, talismans and lucky charms in various cultures.
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Courage and perseverance have a talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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The belief is especially prevalent today in the Mediterranean and Aegean, where apotropaic amulets and talismans are commonly sold as protection against the evil eye.
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Consider my exercise some kind of incantatory ritual -- a talisman -- meant to hold off the bad spirits just as, when I arrive in Beijing in winter and find the mercury near zero (an increasing rarity these last years) or stumble into a snowstorm in New York City, I’m relieved.
Orville Schell: The Melting of America: The Story of a Can't-Do Nation
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The Danes have left Wessex, and have set up in Lundenwic, and have sworn on their most sacred talismans to leave us.
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The shop Goya on Calle Jimenez sells toad talismans, owl feathers, stone amulets, candles, gems, and soaps.
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More than 100 miles of the 28-year-old pipework in Flotta is in tip-top condition, according to Talisman's manager for exploration and production, John Forrest.
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But he has focused on his Vietnam years almost exclusively, and waved his thrown and apparently re-collected medals around like a magic talisman to ward off all criticisms.
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The pentangle was a threat; she claimed the talisman had a spell on it that would cause Phil's death.
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Tower opened her hope chest and removed the birthname talisman the ladies of Condigeo had given her.
Burning Tower
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Charms, talismans, fetishes, photos, what-have-you - little things that I wear or keep or carry in my pocket that I can connect to a person or a place or a time in my life.
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The book is a magical talisman, and it remains to be seen whether the luck it brings is good or bad.
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He appeared before Portsmouth Magistrates yesterday dressed in a green robe, blue cloak and with talismans around his neck.
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El nombre del restaurant es" Villa Union "y la forma de llegar desde Tapachula es la siguiente: primero van a tomar la carretera a Talisman despues van a entrar en el desvio hacia Cacahoatan y Union Juarez, a orilla de carretera van a encontrar varios poblados (conocidos como ejidos) la carne de Argentina la pueden encontrar frente al ejido 11 de Abril.
Tapachula vs. Tuxtla
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The Talisman" lately, and the Plantagenet was her ideal of manly excellence.
Vixen, Volume I.
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The grant of a patent can too often assume a talismanic significance for those closely involved in its conception and development.
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The unusual shape of the stone is in part the result of early visitors chipping pieces off to use as talismans or for curative purposes.
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Having fled from the king, Ma'aruf discovers a magic "souterrain" and a talismanic seal ring, by the aid of which he attains incalculable wealth.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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El gobierno peruano a comienzos de abril firmó varios contratos con diversas empresas 1, entre ellas Talisman, aquí, sin consenso alguno con los ciudadanos que viven en los territorios afectados por esos contratos, que están amparados por diversas leyes, sin ningún esquema de consulta o compensación.
Global Voices in English » Peru: Indigenous Communities Continue Protests
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In telling me the legend of "The Lost Talisman," my good tillicum, the late Chief Capilano, began the story with the almost amazing question, Had I ever heard of Napoleon Bonaparte?
Legends of Vancouver
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Part of the pathos of Durcan's Richelieu lies in his obsessive awareness that if he ‘drops’ the talismanic biretta / crown, the game will be up and the show will be over.
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Mindy kisses me behind the earlobe, creates cold, goose-skin magic, while Stacie floats to the CD player as though propelled by her own talismanic energy, as though her feet never touch the carpet.
Now or Something Very Similar
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But it also needs to learn how to use mathematics intelligently, rather than as a kind of magical talisman.
Christianity Today
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Its subject is the work of a talismanic designer whose enormous appeal took a clothing label to unprecedented heights in brand-name recognition.
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But, to complete the sensible and well - digested plan, in which so many wise heads were concerned, it was determined for me to make the tour of Europe previous to my marriage, in order to perfectionate my matrimonial qualifications; and the lovely idea of the fair maid I left behind was presented to me, as possessing a talismanic power to preserve me from seduction.
Letters of the Late Lord Littelton
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At Brunton Park on Tuesday night, the cheeky talisman was taken for a ride around the pitch after cadging a lift in a sponsored car positioned in front of the main stand prior to kick-off.
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Pollo: En esta region las personas acostumbran comer el pollo en su version "Caldo de gallina de rancho" que es caldo de pollo que siempre comio alimentos naturales, cero quimicos, y lo podran encontrar en la misma carretera a Talisman Km. 10 ahi hay diversos restaurancitos que venden esto.
Tapachula vs. Tuxtla
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The grant of a patent can too often assume a talismanic significance for those closely involved in its conception and development.
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‘Just tell her that someone's here to see her,’ I responded, clutching the watch case as if it were a talisman against Hannah's rejection.
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The psychological aspects of healing through the use of rituals, prayers, charms and talismans represent another aspect of traditional herbal shamanism.
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Throughout their long and distinguished careers, critics often claimed the two talismanic England midfielders could not play alongside each other for their country.
The Sun
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Ala al-Din and his wife Zubaydah, the lutist, saying, “I conjure thee by the virtue of the names and talismans and characts engraver on this jewel, rise up with us, O Couch!”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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It had an unfortunate habit of jumping off the bathroom wall and the little Mexican talismans would become unnailed.
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And there was to end of talismans, charms and spells that could be purchased from the local wise woman or apothecary.
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Songstones were placed along the borders of the villages of the songweavers, and their strange powers made them effective talismans for warding off danger.
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The grant of a patent can too often assume a talismanic significance for those closely involved in its conception and development.
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Dressed in purple robes, he cast a spell invoking the elements of earth, air, water and fire and threw a talisman into the murky loch.
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Smith-Windsor also disputes the argument that if Talisman left Sudan, another company would take over.
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“Cielo Drive,” he repeated, and the name hung between us like a talisman.
John Belushi Is Dead
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The water in which it was dipped operated as a styptic, as a febrifuge, and possessed other properties as a medical talisman.
The Talisman
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Looking through the exhibition checklist for the show (see previous post) at the Corning Museum of Glass, I came across the term "apotropaic", referring to "objects such as amulets and talismans or other symbols intended to 'ward off evil' or 'avert or combat evil.'" [wiki] The term apotrope comes from the Greek meaning "to turn away", and seems to express itself a great deal in eye symbology.
Archive 2007-09-01
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A liquid talisman against a new brand of contagion.
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Animal figures are talismans that endow the wearer with the animal's power and prowess.
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Many strikers or talisman players find themselves booed by opposition fans.
The Sun
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Keane was a ferocious motivator, talismanic captain, and a player who rarely selected the wrong pass or surrendered possession.
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a talismanic amulet
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He looked down and saw the phoenix talisman that he had found on the ocean floor.
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Talisman had identified July 1 as the date it wants to spud its first well in the Eastern Block, in southeast Trinidad, but was unsure if it could meet the date because it had not been granted environmental clearance.
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Still I persisted and wore them anyway for protection, believing they would act as a talisman, because it would be unthinkable that someone wearing such precious shoes could be anything short of cheerful, could be scuffing the floors of hallways along which children might actually die.
Between Expectations
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Wearing holy garments and vestitures, like a robe and talismans or other things, further reaffirms the fixing of the concentration on the magickal work and purifies you of unwanted thoughts.
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MANCHESTER CITY'S lucky talisman Fernandinho is ready to embark on a massive week.
The Sun
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I did not intend to mislead in the previous post … I had to use sveasoft talisman software on my system due to wep … I have a password encrypted wireless network I maintain and with wep enabled I kept getting kicked off of the network (the network crashed) It took a while but I figured out that DHCP kept failing when the ISP reset the IP address of the primary router.
DD-WRT: Setting up a home Wireless Distribution System (WDS) — Meandering Passage
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Poppies and fruit are indeterminate symbols with a practical purpose, mysterious talismans with the power to ward off subsequent suffering.
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Carlos Tevez is "very much City's talisman" according to John Motson – himself very much the sort of item you might hang from the rear-view mirror to ward off road accidents, and mask the smell of the dog – but has been forced to work his medieval-mugged magic from the stands, while City try to decide whether to send him back to the belltower or not.
Wayne Rooney can be England's top player – as long as he isn't picked | Harry Pearson
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It is something talismanic, totemic, intangible, all-consuming, corrosive, compulsive, elusive, indefinable.
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Everything from pentacles and talismans to cloaks and incense can be found here at very reasonable prices!
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Gharib and the Islamised Jinn fell upon them and gloriously done for Gharib! indeed that day he pleased the Lord who answereth prayer and slaked his vengeance with the talisman-sword!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Many carry a lucky talisman; a gift from a parent or a lover, or some other object that has acquired significance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everything from pentacles and talismans to cloaks and incense can be found here at very reasonable prices!
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He smoked 60 cigarettes a day, and hung anchovy fillets round his neck as a talisman to protect his voice.
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Women will often use the bf lie when they're just not feeling connected, or just wanted to flirt but want somy magic talisman to let them not slut it up that night.
Roissy in DC
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To defend themselves, people turned to the usual battery of magical charms and talismans.
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He is their captain and their talisman.
The Sun
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He quickly pocketed the talisman, and then handed Hawking one of his cards.
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A liquid talisman against a new brand of contagion.
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But prop star Smith showed he can be the club's talisman when fit by climbing off his sickbed last Saturday to set Pock on their way to victory over Beverley.
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I stood upon the gulf which girds my dwelling: in one hand, I held my sacred talisman, that bears the name ineffable; in the other, the mystic record of our holy race.
Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
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While bibles were kept in libraries, books used talismanically (primarily in masses and oathrituals) were the responsibility of the sacrist.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He then produced the talisman he had made, a large, deep-blue crystal held in the center of a circle of dark leather a span across.
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With a silent prayer hoping that her plan would work, she threw the talisman at the demons.
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I just hope my talisman protects me from any hex you may cast upon my unwilling head.
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Putting the peplos on the talisman was an act of simple magic.
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He was activating the Sepfeer talisman that was inside as he began to chant the incantation for the spell he was about to cast.
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In order to impress the audience deeply, every moderator has his own talisman.
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Club captain, best player, talisman, emblem, symbol of hope, the burden he carries has weight as well as heft.
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He then produced the talisman he had made, a large, deep-blue crystal held in the center of a circle of dark leather a span across.
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The grant of a patent can too often assume a talismanic significance for those closely involved in its conception and development.
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The door was shut and sealed with charms and talismans to keep away evil spirits or in this case, those who might want to steal the elemental gem inside.
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Perched directly in front of her is a talismanic teapot.
Times, Sunday Times
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No mere textual reading or logical talisman can solve the dilemma.
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A section on healing focused on charms, talismans and rituals of herbal medicine.
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Against the mighty forces of the assembled star-kings, the army of Valkyr counted for almost nothing; but the savage fighting men of the Edge carried with them their talisman -- Alys Imperatrix, uncrowned sovereign of the Galaxy, Heiress of the Thousand Emperors ...
Archive 2010-01-01
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If the 25-year-old was less unassuming and more cagey, he would know that is not the sort of thing a team's talismanic striker is meant to say.
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Selected as a mascot for the Beijing Olympics, the chiru, a talismanic creature that is actually more goat than antelope, is much in demand for its fine shahtoosh wool.
When a Billion Chinese Jump
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Bolivians who keep close relatives' skulls at home as a macabre talisman flock to the cemetery chapel once a year to have the craniums blessed and to bring themselves good luck in the future.
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I wouldn't say that I performed any rituals, per se, but I was on the lookout for talismans, good luck charms - I was big on minerals, and took to wearing jewelry.
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Her old knapsack is ready with good luck talismans, the Christmas and birthday cards from him and a minimum amount of clothes and cosmetics.
Watching Pablo Sleep
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His researchers have exhumed numerous Roman-era items, including a child's bracelet, several belt buckles, an ancient safety pin and a six-pointed talisman they describe as a zoomorph.
In Search Of The Gods
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Lucky charms, amulets, and talismans have been found in virtually all civilizations throughout recorded history.
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In primitive tribes, the names of people, places and things have talismanic powers.
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In the center of the vault was a pedestal, and on top of the pedestal was a spherical crystalline orb with some kind of necklace, or talisman beside it.
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These coins were handed out as talismans by the monarch at a special ceremony to sufferers of the skin disease, scrofula (otherwise known as King's Evil).
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Throughout their long and distinguished careers, critics often claimed the two talismanic England midfielders could not play alongside each other for their country.
The Sun
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Individual shareholders will continue to have their transactions settled through the existing Talisman system, which issues share certificates and transfer forms.