crossbones

Visitors arrive to the park at the Ugab River and are welcomed by gates bearing two skull and crossbones.
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He was willing to sleep in a vault amongst skulls and crossbones, with a reliable up-to-time ghost thrown in, for a pound a week.
Cleg Kelly, Arab of the City|S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

The third drawing is a landscape, having in the foreground a head-stone, with a skull and crossbones in the semi-circular head.
The Bront Family, Vol. 2 of 2|Francis A. Leyland
The crossbones as hung on the masthead o' the Spittin' Devil.
Wappin' Wharf|Charles S. Brooks
The crossbones, dread emblem of death, decorate her skirt, and a writhing snake crowns her head.
An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs|Sylvanus Griswold Morley
At the bottom of the list he sketched a tombstone bearing a skull and crossbones, and by way of epitaph: Here lies a drunken dog.
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crossbones

/ (ˈkrɒsˌbəʊnz) /

pl n

See skull and crossbones

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