In an obscure corner of the town stands a house of extreme antiquity, over the door of which are still to be seen a skull and crossbones.

Mark those bottles, my dear sirs, as housewives do corrosive sublimate or ratsbane,—with a skull and crossbones, and label them "Poison," for the effect of them upon the luckless wight who should taste their contents, would be convulsive, very.

His own taste combined the gloomy and the grotesque, his clothes and his [book] bindings alike being covered with skulls and crossbones, and spangles to represent tears, with other conventional emblems of sorrow.

Overhead, the black flag with the white skull-and-crossbones symbolizing defiance of radio regulations fluttered limply atop the two-hundred-foot mast mounted on the converted coaster from which they operated.

When poisons are involved, red skull and crossbones are added.

The skull and crossbones is, to be sure, a visual sign that communicates a very specific meaning.

On the floor was a big flag whose significance I could not make out. There was a big red cross in the center and around it were two skull and crossbones and two other insignia with crossed torches, crossed scythes, and a smaller cross in the center.

Because when I saw him again, the Bird had two skull-and-crossbones stenciled on his X-ray camera.

[C]hildren who are not told otherwise may interpret the ubiquitous skull and crossbones pictograph […] to mean "pirate food" […] Parents can also play an important role by teaching their children that the skull and crossbones symbol is sometimes used to indicate poison.

By the turn of the 18th century, when Captain [John] Cranby espied [Emanuel] Wynn's skull and crossbones, the piracy trade was flourishing and ambitious pirates were becoming increasingly sophisticated in the way they operated.

These [motorcycle] helmets often resemble World War I Prussian helmets, or are modified half-helmets, usually plain black in color, or adorned with skulls and crossbones, or other intimidating symbols.

It was a quilted leather tote with tiny skulls-and-crossbones inside each diamond; Sirena's style was definitely impossible to miss. But the million-dollar question was: how had this girl snagged it? Everyone online was buzzing about this purse, but no one could get one.

Skull and crossbones

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