Picture wooden chess boards formed into a laundry basket.

Chess pieces are tiny wooden laundry baskets.

This small cup holds the bullets from a machine gun that were removed from his side.

This prince is put in charge of the army. His vehicle of choice is the crowned chariot.

hero also knows how to boil over a cooking fire

One mouth directs the raking matter at hand.

You point with two knives to that city (the other, the second).

alternatively: the left component looks like barbed wire fencing, Keep out! of the city of Na.

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Re-situated a Thousand Times: The Oakies moved over a thousand miles west, re-situating themselves each night. (1930's On the Road)

Dear Ancestors, here is the list of mantras that I have been using in meditation. Can you bless them? (Petitioning the Ancestors)

transformed into something splendid by multiplying by ten or shooting up or accepting the cross

The Institute was the pinnacle of her studies, where she finished her PhD.

"Your life as a single person will finish at ‘The Institution of Marriage.’ It is the pinnacle representation of law and order and can be solemnized in a court of law." (Wedding Planner)

You’ve heard of the story: “The Sovereign’s New Clothes”? The sovereign stands up in front of his subjects wearing only a crown and towel.

he belongs to the dead exterminators

you grow a goatee at the lake

“Flowers Seized from the Small Dog”  Pekingese was fulfilling her dreams one by one. After she was released from prison, and her podcast had gone viral, she was now receiving speaking engagement invitations regularly. She should have been happy, but she had a recurring nightmare. She often dreamed that just as her speech had ended, as the audience was applauding and she was being presented with flowers, they were seized from her paws, and the cheers turned to boos as Pekingese slunk off the stage. Moral: Seize the day because the night might seize you.

Also piling up in your cave is a bunch of your friend’s hair. Gross. Discard it. (Hunter-Gatherer)

the actor wears a mask on center stage

Picture a snake already starting to shed its skin.

Focus of the Wild West economy has been overturned to tourism, where people line up to see modern duplicates of old-time scenes.