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black flag

noun as in Jolly Roger

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He used some of the captives as human shields and forced others to hold a black flag with white Arabic writing against the window.

Now everyone says, “Oh, Black Flag and the Ramones were great, and slavery was terrible.”

Now al-Qaeda has come back in Iraq, raising its black flag over territory once fought over so hard by Americans.

In the beginning, they hung their black flag outside the clinic to show their power.

At Bracto, a Mexican commander with a superior force sent a black flag demanding his surrender.

The black flag of the buccaneers of reconstruction marked not with death's heads but by red stars!

The black flag is up, and no doubt she means mischief; but all is fair and above board.

As to the black flag, that is merely a joke that my fellows play off upon people sometimes in order to frighten them.

Cyrus Harding had not seen the suspected vessel hoist the black flag without deep anxiety.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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