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three nails

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three nails
used to crucify Jesus. [Christian Symbolism: Appleton, 67]
See : Passion of Christ
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Three nails driven into the head commemorated as many crises in Maggie's nine years of earthly struggle; that luxury of vengeance having been suggested to her by the picture of Jael destroying Sisera in the old Bible.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
In his hand he swayed a ferule, that sceptre of despotic power; the birch of justice reposed on three nails behind the throne, a constant terror to evil doers, while on the desk before him might be seen sundry contraband articles and prohibited weapons, detected upon the persons of idle urchins, such as half-munched apples, popguns, whirligigs, fly-cages, and whole legions of rampant little paper game-cocks.
The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Irving, Washington View in context
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