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Outside of France, this is sometimes represented by an empaled dragon from which issue a number of little dragons flying away.

Then, caught between two fires, we shall perish; if not in battle, empaled on stakes.

The first who would excite a tumult is empaled; and all is tranquil.

"Well," said Yebor, shaking his bald pate, "we must empale Zadig for having thought contemptuously of griffins, and the other party for having spoken disrespectfully of rabbits."

They empale their prey on locust thorns and on the spines of other trees and bushes; and I have known a barbed-wire fence to be decorated with the remains of their victims.