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VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.
22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games
In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
1858 August 14, Peleg Parsley Bell, “Seeing the World. Letter No. 5. Still in London.”, in The Flag of Our Union, volume XIII, number 33, Boston, Mass.: M M Ballou, page 260, column 2:
Some very interesting relics of Adam and Eve were shown us, that were brought from America; such as a fine-tooth comb, made of thorns, a part of a pair of leather spectacle frames, without glasses, a boot jack made of ebony, and a set of pawpaws of props, with the backs filled with a hard substance, resembling lava.
(rail transport) A frame with different coloured lenses on a semaphoresignal through which light from a lamp shines at night, often a part of the signal arm.
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