noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
burn
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There are numerous harvest customs throughout this country and abroad, and some involve burning the straw effigy of such a figure.
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The mob had already burnt in effigy Andrew Oliver and his new stamp office before doing some damage to his house.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An effigy of Mr MacSharry was burned by protesting farmers in Strasbourg last week in a violent protest against the deal.
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Candidates who wanted enclosure were burned in effigy , their supporters wheeled about in muck-carts in the robust eighteenth-century fashion.
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During the annual Pope Day at Newport and Boston, crowds burned the pope in effigy .
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Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, as depicted in his tomb effigy .
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I could not even bayonet an effigy of Kaiser Bill convincingly.
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The mob had already burnt in effigy Andrew Oliver and his new stamp office before doing some damage to his house.
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There he lay, in knightly stone effigy , with a row of eight knights in stone cartoon-strip below him.
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There was no crew but effigies of sailors lined the decks.