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Example sentences for "scapegoats"

Lexicographically close words:
scantly; scanty; scape; scaped; scapegoat; scapegrace; scapegraces; scapes; scaphoid; scaping
  1. M145 Goats and cocks employed as scapegoats in various parts of India.

  2. Human scapegoats annually put to death at the festival of the Thargelia in Asia Minor.

  3. M27 Sins and misfortunes transferred to human scapegoats in New Zealand and Manipur.

  4. M166 Divine animals as scapegoats in India and ancient Egypt.

  5. M29 Transference of evils to human scapegoats in Uganda.

  6. Paton's view that the human scapegoats at the Thargelia personated the spirits of fig-trees, and that the ceremony was a magical rite for the fertilization of fig-trees, being copied from the process of caprification.

  7. The mass must have its heroes, but also its victims and scapegoats and the butts of its ridicule.

  8. But the Scapegoats must not kick up shindies, and stop up our streets and our squares, That's a moral.

  9. We must abolish the title of criminal as applied to any class or individuals of our race in distinction from others, and use those of unfortunates or scapegoats instead.

  10. The "Subterranean Brotherhood" are our brothers--they are ourselves, unjustly and vainly condemned to serve as scapegoats for the rest.

  11. Griffin, on its Temple Bar pedestal, memorialise the older and too obstructive arch, where of old the dreadful heads of political scapegoats were displayed?

  12. No attested examples of human scapegoats at Babylon are offered, but that is a trifle.

  13. Sleeman, General Sir William, on the use of scapegoats in India, ix.

  14. Harpocration, on the human scapegoats at the Thargelia, ix.

  15. Lover's Leap, a cape in the island of Leucas, human scapegoats at the, ix.

  16. Thargelia, human scapegoats at the Greek festival of the, ix.

  17. Pithoria, in India, use of scapegoats at, ix.

  18. Ghats, the Eastern, use of scapegoats in the, ix.

  19. Squills used to beat human scapegoats and image of Pan, ix.


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