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  • Then she burns the tiger, along with some "hell" currency — paper with goldleaf pasted to it — to bribe the evil spirits to go away.

    Beating Bad Luck Tatiana Lau 2010

  • Then she burns the tiger, along with some "hell" currency -- paper with goldleaf pasted to it -- to bribe the evil spirits to go away.

    Beating Bad Luck Tatiana Lau 2010

  • Then she burns the tiger, along with some "hell" currency — paper with goldleaf pasted to it — to bribe the evil spirits to go away.

    Beating Bad Luck Tatiana Lau 2010

  • Then she burns the tiger, along with some "hell" currency — paper with goldleaf pasted to it — to bribe the evil spirits to go away.

    Beating Bad Luck Tatiana Lau 2010

  • Then she burns the tiger, along with some "hell" currency — paper with goldleaf pasted to it — to bribe the evil spirits to go away.

    Beating Bad Luck Tatiana Lau 2010

  • Then she burns the tiger, along with some "hell" currency -- paper with goldleaf pasted to it -- to bribe the evil spirits to go away.

    Beating Bad Luck Tatiana Lau 2010

  • When the sign was acquired, it had plastic lenses in place of the original glass lenses, which would have had goldleaf and/or painted "eyes."

    Boing Boing: February 27, 2005 - March 5, 2005 Archives 2005

  • The morning sunlight slanted up the maidan and struck, yellow as goldleaf, against the white face of the bungalow.

    Burmese Days 2002

  • Just under the surface, the thick lip of a pottery jar decorated with intricate, bright goldleaf markings caught the torchlight again, its crescent shape unmistakable.

    Song of Time McLaren, Teri 1996

  • Just under the surface, the thick lip of a pottery jar decorated with intricate, bright goldleaf markings caught the torchlight again, its crescent shape unmistakable.

    Song of Time McLaren, Teri 1996

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