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necklace

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To informally execute by setting on fire a petrol-filled rubber tyre which has been put around the bound victim's neck.

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Back in Georgetown, waiting for a taxi to the airport, we do a last-minute dash around the street stalls: all I salvage are an oil painting of the Kaieteur Falls (a rather Surrealist interpretation), a shell necklace, a woven basket and as much El Dorado rum as possible, before the plane carries us to a connecting flight at Barbados, and the waters change from brown to a shock of bright blue.

When Wang says mildly he wanted to do knitwear, note that what this meant on the catwalk was a patent leather coat embossed to give a trompe l'oeil cable-knit effect, a modern take on chainmail, and Gisele Bündchen closing the show in a round-shouldered sweater with a necklace of crystals knitted into its structure.

From more recent times there are the Bulgari pearl earrings that Taylor wore in the 1973 film Ash Wednesday, alongside Monroe's pearl necklace given by the baseball superstar DiMaggio, made by the company of the pioneer of cultured pearls, Kokichi Mikimoto.

The film has a special place in Buthelezi's heart because he was in it, playing his great-grandfather King Cetshwayo, complete with spear, leopard skin with tooth necklace.

It is regrettable that Maupassant should be known less for indelible moments like this, and more for the twist or "trick" ending of "The Necklace" (1884), the final line of which arrives with the boom-tish of a club comedian's punchline.

A stonking great diamond or pearl necklace will also do nicely, should you happen to have one to hand: for reference, the croissant scene in Breakfast At Tiffany's.

In the airless room, Wasswa runs through a few more devices − a face pain remover, a blood pressure reducer, a necklace that removes radiation − before squeezing past bodies and chairs to get back to the first patient we met.

Nicole was wearing nothing above the waist but a necklace and a wink.

I made a necklace with my daughter's fingerprint on and every time I wore it, people commented on how beautiful it was and how professional it looked.

"The people marketing them prefer to say 'it is so fantastic: your necklace was made from a grain of sand'.

The whole peninsula rests Encircled by a craving necklace Of the drowned.

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