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He soon finished, and held up a model of a twelve-pointed star between his thumb and forefinger.
365 tomorrows » Sam Clough : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Back in 1911, when Charlie Soong had sent his middle daughter the flag of the new Chinese Republic with its twelve-pointed white sun, her roommates reported that she had climbed on a chair, pulled the old yellow-and-blue imperial dragon flag off the wall, and stomped on it.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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He soon finished, and held up a model of a twelve-pointed star between his thumb and forefinger.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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The breastplate bore the pattern of a twelve-pointed star, his helm was formed in the likeness of two swan's wjngs done in shining steel.
Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000
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Tonight he came as a stag brow heavy with twelve-pointed antlers, his reddishbrown coat gleaming in the starlight, his eyes heavy with riddles.
Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990
chained_bear commented on the word twelve-pointed
Verb. To murder someone by impaling them on a mounted deer head.
Usage: "Ooh, he just twelve-pointed Slippery Dan!" (Tom Nuttall, "Deadwood")
February 4, 2007