When I finished that I went home and practiced striking a bundle of sticks with a bokken. |
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The problem was, this symbol was the Fascio Littorio, a bundle of sticks and an axe. |
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It was silver with gold pictograms: a horse, a beehive, a bundle of sticks, and what looked like it might be a saddle post. |
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Each family offered a bundle of sticks, and the men gathered from all parts to carry these sticks to the cottage, where they set them on fire. |
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Though we're unlikely to mistake a bundle of sticks or a headmaster's shouts for anything coarser, such old-fashioned formulations can be distracting. |
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Perhaps it was ignorance, but the only bundle of sticks that had meant anything to me was the one that we would use to start our campfires in July. |
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The families were all in this thing together, however, giving me an opportunity to witness first-hand the amazing strength of the bundle of sticks tied with the CEP Local 219-O band. |
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