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fiery cross

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fiery cross
used as symbolic threat by Ku Klux Klan. [Am. Hist.: Jobes, 387]
See : Bigotry
fiery cross
traditional Highlands call to arms. [Scot. Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 324–325]
See : Warning


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We can hardly swallow Lawyer Smith's seven miles; but could the blowing of the stone have been a summons, a sort of sending the fiery cross round the neighbourhood in the old times?
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