Looking at the reindeers antlers was imaging leaders impaled on the horns of euro-dilemmas.

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Two silver containers are impaled in its skull, one for cigars, one for snuff.

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The collision impaled Pan on the brake handle, and it hurled Henry Cao into the air.

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Sharks regularly become impaled on hooks dragged by boats targeting high-value species such as tuna, or entangled in nets.

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After killing him, Lancastrian forces had impaled York's head on a lance and adorned it with a paper crown.

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He lobs a live crawdad impaled on a silver hook into a spot of water 15 feet in front of the boat.

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As the popular story goes, the monarch himself ended up impaled on a red-hot poker by noblemen who objected to his governing style.

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The spook and the policeman are brought together by the gruesome death of former film star, Mabel Morgan, who is found impaled on the railings outside the block of flats where she lives.

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Still the duke flailed at him, and Mohun, backing up, stumbled in the ditch just as Hamilton, with the last blind strength of rage, impaled him like a loaf of bread, into the groin and out through the buttock, opening an artery on the way.

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' Over a dinner of a chicken impaled and roasted on a spike, its head still attached, with fiddlehead ferns and whole sprouting peanuts, the owner of the plantation put a different angle to me: 'Picking tea - it's women's work - it always has been.

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