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You gotta 'fess up and let the chips fall where they may.
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They'll be much angrier if you fess up at the last minute.
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I have been a beastly cad and I'm ready to fess up.
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There's nothing to do but go and 'fess up to Mrs. Kirby.
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A fess- afessis-YOUdon't need to know what a fess is.
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Crest-TwoCaducean rods with wings, lying fesse ways or.
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I bear azure powdered with trefoils or, with a lion's paw of the same armed gules in fesse.
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The central compartment contains the family arms, viz., Or, on a fesse, gu., between three pellets, a lion passant gardant of the field.
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Quarterly 1st and 4th Gules, on a fesse wavy argent, between three pitchers double eared or, as many bees volant proper.
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"I know the arms, madam, and well too: quarterly, three eagles displayed in fesse, and-
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In ancient Rome, fasces were carried by lictors in imperial processions and ceremonies.
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A victorious general, saluted as "Imperator" by his soldiers, had his fasces crowned with laurel.
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I believe they are called fasces.
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The fasces were symbols of authority, first used by the Roman kings, then by the consuls, then by the emperors.
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Meanwhile, if the test of fascism is breaking up labour unions, certain American communists should be presented with fasces crowned with laurel.