| It may be that the heraldic nature of the squirrel's significance in the painting suggested the rebus like pun to represent the place name. |
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| An epigraph typically functions as a rebus for an essay, providing a gloss or indicating the author's approach. |
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| It's something of a rebus, though perhaps involving more associative skills than your average rebus and doesn't make sense except as a melding of personae. |
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| Amongst fragments set into the background of a fifteenth-century panel depicting St Mary Magdalen in the east chancel window are quarries with fragments of the Lovell rebus. |
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| Similar to doing a rebus or crossword puzzle, it's a drawing of nine dots, and the challenge is to connect them without lifting the pen from the paper. |
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| We should be saying, through Mr Solana, sic stantibus rebus ', we are not going, rather than continuing to present this shameful spectacle. |
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| Identification was by inscription, heraldry and, later, a rebus. |
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| The life preserver is a rebus on the ship's name. |
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| The rebus principle supplemented the logographic principle and allowed full writing systems to develop. |
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| Since we know that in other logo-syllabic systems pictographs were exploited as rebus signs, we might expect some rebuses here. |
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| The rhyming, cumulative rebus format of this tale invites the reader to participate in the dressing, undressing and redressing of the party-goer. |
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| The De expetendis et fugiendis rebus by Giorgio Valla was posthumously printed in 1501 by Aldo Manuzio in Venice. |
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| The rebus principle appears in both the Egyptian hieroglyphic and in the Chinese writing systems. |
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| We have symbolically interpreted this kind rebus puzzle to illustrate, in the form of an installation, a short diatribe in which we defend the return of ideas when faced with the growing banalization of visual communication. |
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| With the rebus principle, sound could be made visible in a systematic way, and abstract concepts symbolized. |
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| The story is repeated in bestiaries such as De bestiis et aliis rebus. |
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| Once the rebus principle is accepted by a language in its written form, it is a natural step for such symbols to come to represent the sounds of syllables. |
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| Rebus noticed that an ambulance, blue lights blinking, was parked in front of a stationary double-decker bus. |
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| Likewise, walks to Calton Hill and the Water of Leith suggested climactic scenes and murder sites for various Rebus novels. |
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| This man is Riders of Rebus who like a modern day mariachi emanates unpretentious, rocking pop tunes with spiky guitars and quirky melodies. |
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| Rebus isn't the only one who gets hinky as he drives north over the Forth Bridge and turns right. |
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| Rebus nodded slowly and walked over to the bus driver, crouched down in front of him. |
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| For Rebus it is another opportunity to dwell, as he does often, on the bodysnatchers Burke and Hare. |
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| But then I've always used Rebus in this wanton way, as a punchbag of sorts. |
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| It appeared some part of him was compiling a case where the facts had to sway just one man, Rebus Bantam, his own harsh judge and unappeasable jury. |
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| All I've done is sit at a desk in a well-heated room, drinking coffee and eating chocolate, while I put Rebus through the mill for the umpteenth time. |
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| Michael Carter's acting career has seen him appear in a variety or productions ranging from Return of the Jedi to Rebus. |
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| Rankin is known for the fine writing and gritty, visceral dialogue and scenes that define his Rebus series. |
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| For example, Church Hill in Morningside, was the home of Muriel Spark's Miss Jean Brodie, and Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus lives in Marchmont and works in St Leonards. |
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| The complexity of the plot provides Rebus with the chance to outthink everyone, but the surprise is that Fox rises to the occasion as a real CID detective. |
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