Especially when it's inscribed on paper — something official that be held in the face of a gung-ho sheriff, police officer or Border Patrol agent who didn't get the memo.
Adults about £30, children about £16, children under 1.2m free The Lantern Festival marks the last hurrah of the New Year celebrations, where Chinese eat sticky sweet orbs of rice flour called tangyuan, guess riddles inscribed on paper lanterns and explode any remaining munitions.
Petitioners buy slips of papers inscribed with historical parables or sayings from ancient scholars, which are supposed to yield clues that will aid in decisions.
| Christie's offering of Dickensiana from the library of Kenyon Starling (April 2) includes manuscripts (such as a page from the working copy of the "Pickwick Papers"), inscribed first editions, and original drawings.
In his Rue des Grands-Augustins flat, the telephone serves as a paperweight, holding down telephone bills, invitations to art exhibitions long since past, calling cards, addresses, and stray papers inscribed with special information — all impounded together so they will be handy if he ever chooses to look at them.
He prefers paper inscribed with Korean characters.
She examined a roll of novelty toilet paper inscribed with "We Shall Overcomb".
And the final image, of a piece of paper inscribed "The End" disappearing down a toilet, is the real Waters thing.
They were wrapped in brown paper inscribed in his father's handwriting, labeling the works as Pollocks painted in the late 1940's.
As the room emptied, the joss paper inscribed with the names of the dead shimmered along the walls, catching the light like windows in the sun.
