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Never daring to do anything else? so using the phrygian major usually found in eastern music based riff for faceless man in the sitar type tuning wouldnt be trying something a little different?
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July 17, 2006 dressed in tricolour and phrygian cap
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July 17, 2006 dressed in tricolour and phrygian cap
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The smooth, picturebook slope had become jagged and bruised while the regular, evenlyrounded apex had turned into a sort of phrygian cap with its pinnacle woundedly askew.
Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940
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+ "And they went through the Phrygian and Galatian region" (ten phrygian kai Galatiken choran);
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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These words (ten phrygian kai Galatiken choran) are variously interpreted, according as we take them to mean the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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There was one -- he of the injured arm -- resplendent in a redingote of crimson velvet, whilst he of the limp supported himself upon a gold-headed cane of ebony, which was in ludicrous discord with the tattered blue coat, the phrygian cap, and the toes that peeped through his broken boots.
The Trampling of the Lilies Rafael Sabatini 1912
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"Is that all?" said the man with the phrygian cap.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Seeing a phrygian cap upon his head, a cry escaped her: -- "Ah! it is you who have betrayed me!"
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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The French Patriot, in red phrygian nightcap of Liberty, christens his poor little red infant Cato, -- Censor, or else of Utica.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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