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statues

/ˈstæt͡ʃuz/ noun B1
  1. A children's game in which the players have to stand still without moving while being looked at.
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If we Lions knew how to erect statues, you would see the Man placed under the paw of the Lion.”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 7 · B2
For a second or two we might have been a group of statues.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 78 · B2
“It was at the shop of Morse Hudson, who has a place for the sale of pictures and statues in the Kennington Road.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 69 · C1
Considering how many hundreds of statues of the great Emperor must exist in London, it is too much to suppose such a coincidence as that a promiscuous iconoclast should chance to begin upon three specimens of the same bust.”
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 71 · C1

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