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When I think of a vampire, I think of a long cape and a gigantic bat hanging from the branches … but this is somehow even scarier.

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When it finally came time to leave, Madame Babushkinov swirled her fur cape to and fro like a matador to coax her three older children to the door.

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There they crashed headlong into the source of the bellowing: a tall woman in a fur cape, who now lay sprawled on the floor with three orange-splattered ghosts hovering above her.

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Alexander had stubbornly kept his blanket wrapped around him like a cape, and no one had taken a stab at the cursive letters.

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In 2010, a Sun News article imagined Martin as a cartoon superhero, “in tights and a cape with the caricature of a microscope emblazoned across his chest.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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