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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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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He smoked 60 cigarettes a day, and hung anchovy fillets round his neck as a talisman to protect his voice. |
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Omari has been our talisman this season, but he got a dead leg last week and could hardly walk. |
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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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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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He looked down and saw the phoenix talisman that he had found on the ocean floor. |
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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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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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With a silent prayer hoping that her plan would work, she threw the talisman at the demons. |
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This was the man who took Manchester United apart at the seams, the talisman for the attack. |
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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 quickly pocketed the talisman, and then handed Hawking one of his cards. |
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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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Created as a hex sign by the Amish, this potent talisman traditionally attracts Serenity and Inner Strength. |
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He was the talisman, the cog in the clockwork that made the whole mechanism function. |
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Maybe this strange talisman contained his secret to the mysteries of life. |
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She kept a copy of The Ambassadors as a talisman on her writing desk when she was working for seven years on her novel Trust. |
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The talisman of this team was Zinédine Zidane, a native of Marseilles whose family, of Berber origin, came originally from Algeria. |
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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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The terms amulet and talisman are often used interchangeably, but a talisman is sometimes defined as an engraved amulet. |
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They first spotted their talisman in training camp last year in Chicago where the Bears, unbelievably, did not recognise a rough diamond in their midst. |
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We are spared, thankfully, the standard liberal talisman of his saunter across the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln. |
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Emma's tinderbox is with her throughout the stories as a remembrance of her beloved family and as a kind of talisman against the future. |
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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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With all these questions, I can only turn to Gandhi's Talisman: «I will give you a talisman. |
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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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Putting the peplos on the talisman was an act of simple magic. |
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After the piano, at nine years old she discovered the guitar, which was to become her talisman. |
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Zuniga defended the challenge, claiming he did not deliberately try to hurt Brazil's talisman. |
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She carried a talisman with its forked tail matching her forked tongue, a sight to behold as she was the local xenagogue to guide us across the trackless wastes of the xeric. |
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It is said that viewing the written form of the mantra has potent effects, acting as a talisman. |
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In the past, the sapphire was also believed to be a talisman that would protect you against evil spirits and other unsavory creatures of the night. |
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Italy's talisman and creator-in-chief was the planet's finest player, having won the Ballon d'Or the previous December and scored 17 league goals for Juventus in the season before the tournament. |
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No Majlis member, regardless of the current he represents, would risk rising to speak on any vital issue without invoking this automatic talisman of his calling at some point in his discourse. |
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My exasperated teacher believed the Lucky Gonk I took into the exam as a talisman would have got more. |
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How Manchester United's talisman had to wait quite so long to be accepted into the snoozy sponsors' hall of footballing fame is beyond reason. |
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In modern Japan, owls are regarded as lucky and are carried in the form of a talisman or charm. |
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The bones not only embody memory, but also suggest that the energy of the living child has been transformed into a talisman with orectic power. |
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A talisman of the Grand Shrine of Ise was placed vertically within the shrine. There were also talismen for the guardian kami. |
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Now then did I swathe them one by one in the grave-clothes of Osiris, binding upon the breast and image, truly consecrated, of the god, with a talisman against the four elements. |
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A bronze fleece pullover conveys both the pathos of the castoff and the absurdity of the talisman — like a filthy, once cherished security blanket reëncountered in adulthood. |
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As for Deco's former team-mate Maniche, his star turns in Porto's Champions League and Portugal's EURO 2004? exploits helped him edge out Liverpool FC talisman Steven Gerrard in the central midfield slot. |
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This apocalyptic talisman is derived from the talismans used in Coptic magic, and is certainly one of the most powerful oracular objects of our time. |
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Police found various items, such as tomes and pieces of paper with sorcerous words written on them, as well as talisman and herbs used in witchcraft. |
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She kept low, clutching the rifle she'd taken as though it were a magic talisman, as if it would somehow protect her even though she didn't fire it. |
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Munster talisman O'Connell said no amount of love-ins will detract from the brutal task facing Joe Schmidt's Ireland side in the Aviva Stadium Test. |
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