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A sign in a shop window in Italy proclaims " No tick tock | Tic Tac ", in imitation of the sound of a clock. An onomatopoeia or onomatopœia (, from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία ; ὄνομα for " name " and ποιέω for " I make ",< ref > ποιέω, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus <</ ref > adjectival form: " onomatopoeic " or " onomatopoetic ") is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.
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sign and shop
Panels with outdated copy are returned to the sign shop so a new message can be applied.
Pearson believed that a ' Satisfaction Guaranteed ' sign in the window of the shop legally entitled him to a refund for the cost of the pants, estimated at $ 1, 000.
A typical Hong Kong pawn shop sign: a bat holding a coin.
In 1878, his birthplace was still of note: " The site of Cromwell's birthplace is still pointed out by tradition, and is in some measure confirmed by the survey of Wimbledon Manor, quoted above, for it describes on that spot ' an ancient cottage called the smith's shop, lying west of the highway from Richmond to Wandsworth, being the sign of the Anchor.
Although Gyro's shop and house are on the south side of Duckburg, he was born on the north side — a sign marks his birthplace and mentions one of his inventions — topless hats.
He created a little stuffed bear cub and put it in his shop window with a sign that read " Teddy's bear ," after sending a bear to Roosevelt and receiving permission to use his name.
A sign outside a sex shop reads " Must Be 18 To Enter " in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
When the florist shop put up signs for a mayoral and city council candidates who opposed the eminent domain abuse, workers at city hall started putting up bales of hay to block the sign.
The photo included a protest sign that depicted Bert with Osama bin Laden, an image that had been inadvertently placed there by the owner of a poster shop in Dhaka.
Typically, a customer must sign up for an account with the shop and give billing information like a credit card number.
Using a security guard disguise he bought at a local costume shop, he put a sign over the box saying " out of service, place deposits with security guard on duty " and collected money that way.
Painted at Watteau's own insistence, " to take the chill off his fingers ", this sign for the shop in Paris of the paintings dealer Edme François Gersaint is effectively the final curtain of Watteau's theatre.
Image: Seattle-Barney's Loans sign 01. jpg | Barney's Loans continues as a pawn shop as of 2008
Curll moved his shop again in that year and called it " Pope's Head " and sold under the sign of Pope.
The PIA program includes administration, a license plate factory where the inmates have been making California license plates since before the 1930s, maintenance, metal fabrication, a sign shop, and a furniture factory.
) Quiggins architectural supplies & ironmongers which had formerly owned the premises and whose sign still adorned the shop front.
In many head shops, a sign will be posted ( and often reiterated verbally ) stating that customer references regarding the use of the shop's products for illegal drug use will result in suspension of all sales for that time period, and / or removal of the customer from the shop.
In 2012, Disney replaced the shop in the Firehouse with a sign up for the Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom game.
Liberty Square is home to The Haunted Mansion and the Hall of Presidents and a sign up location for sorcerers of the magic kingdom behind the Christmas shop
The First Haymarket Theatre or Little Theatre was built in 1720 by John Potter, carpenter, on the site of The King's Head Inn in the Haymarket and a shop in Suffolk Street kept by Isaac Bliburgh, a gunsmith, and known by the sign of the Cannon and Musket.
Emboldened by the new provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act, which required union officers to sign an oath that they were not members of the Communist Party, outlawed the closed shop and gave the President authority to seek an 80-day " cooling off " period before a strike that would imperil the national health or safety, the employers pushed for a strike, hoping to rid themselves of Bridges and reclaim control over the hiring hall.
The National Bank's distinctive Black Horse logo dates back to 1677 London when Humphrey Stockes adopted it as sign for his shop.
* John Small-shopkeeper, cobbler, and Hambledon cricketer, whose shop sign read:
The Rape of Lucrece was entered into the Stationers ' Register on 9 May 1594, and published later that year, in a quarto printed by Richard Field for the bookseller John Harrison (" the Elder "); Harrison sold the book from his shop at the sign of the White Greyhound in St. Paul's Churchyard.
sign and window
The room was dark but a neon sign flashed and faded beyond the window.
In the darkness he could see the rosy reflection of the neon sign on the wall opposite the window.
A less grave sign of this state of affairs is located on a window ledge over the church's entrance.
Some injunctions contain wording that restricts damaging or vandalizing the property of another, both public and private property, including but limited to any vehicle, light fixture, door, fence, wall, gate, window, building, street sign, utility box, telephone box, trees, or power pole.
The sign in the window reads: " We homosexuals plead with our people to please help maintain peaceful and quiet conduct on the streets of the Village — Mattachine ".
The bodies of the three dead Cowboys were displayed in a window at Ritter and Reams undertakers with a sign: " Murdered in the Streets of Tombstone.
The presence of the arms of the French king ( yellow fleurs-de-lis on a blue background ) and of his mother, Blanche of Castile ( yellow castles on a red background ) are taken as a sign of royal patronage for this window.
To discourage crews from filming additional footage of the house, the owners placed an " Impeach Nixon " sign beneath the window where Mary supposedly lived.
Image: Neff's Mill Covered Bridge Inside HDR 3008px. jpg | The window and painted sign inside the bridge
Now, despite the fame of its chicken dinners and the red neon sign in the window that says " FOOD ," its last meal will be served Easter Sunday.
Its other architectural features comprise a projecting two-storey porch with oak post-and-rail fence inscribed with a number of sayings on either side, lateral bay with four-light mullioned window in the lower storey and a three-light mullioned window in the upper storey, a tall rubbed brick chimneystack, and the inn sign located diagonally from the right corner The inn continues to function as a public house and restaurant.
He looks down the street where Kirsten is walking, a " Bar " sign reflecting in the window.
At first both believed that they had been hit by firecrackers, which are common in Taiwanese political activities ; the first sign of something more serious was when Chen noticed that he was bleeding from the stomach and that there was a bullet hole in the window.
If a player gets released from their club when the transfer window is closed, they cannot sign for another team until the window reopens.
In a suffragette cartoon of 1912, John Bull is portrayed looking out of the window of a house over whose door the sign says " Franchise Villa ", while his wife knocks on the door, with the accompanying text:
In another, Nicholas, a vegetarian, was served a roasted fowl over which he made the sign of the cross, and it flew out a window.
The only other way out was the window, and there was a 20-foot ( about 6 m ) drop below it onto a flower bed, which now shows no sign of being disturbed.
Fast-food restaurants that have a drive-through or walk-up window will often put the entire menu on a board, lit-up sign, or poster outside, so that patrons can select their meal choices.
The sugarloaf was also the sign of a grocer, often found outside his premises or in the window, and sometimes found on his trade tokens.
* The R142A's cab ends are one piece, while the destination sign area and window section are two separate pieces on the R142.
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