death's-head

Example Sentences

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It was a small Death's-head, carved in ivory with extraordinary power and anatomical skill.

From The Child of Pleasure by Harding, Georgina

With feelings of terror we now observed that the flag at the schooner’s peak was black, with a Death’s-head and cross-bones upon it.

From The Coral Island by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

With feelings of terror we now observed that the flag at the schooner's peak was black, with a Death's-head and cross-bones upon it.

From The Coral Island A Tale of the Pacific Ocean by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Its Death's-head bowl forming its latter end, continually reminding him of his own.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman

At the pipe-shop in Great Russell-street, the Death’s-head pipes were like theatrical memento mori, admonishing beholders of the decline of the playhouse as an Institution. 

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles