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Skulls
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I had tried to make it beautiful with a spray of golden and orange autumn leaves in an empty green wine bottle on the floor by the hearth, with a string of tiny mouse skulls and soft white dove feathers hanging above my bed, and a cluster of dried rose hips pinned behind the door.
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― Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology
― Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology
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Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones.
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― Necropolis: London and Its Dead
― Necropolis: London and Its Dead
