First came the Imperial Cornet Band of Oz, dressed in emerald velvet uniforms with slashes of pea-green satin and buttons of immense cut emeralds.
For years we have been told that a low-fat diet slashes our risk of heart disease, stroke, and cancer, until the recent low-fat diet news hit the airwaves.
In most cases, the work is extended on the sides with a series of interlocking lines, curls and slashes.
Lines or slashes are often used to show the result.
The double slashes indicate that each character in the string should be an element of the new array.
The sharp slashes and edges of a traditional tribal tattoo are surprisingly easy to modify into a fairy figure, especially when it comes to the wings.
There's just something about those bold black swishes and slashes that seems to speak to us deep down inside on an almost primal level.
We can also understand that when Redwood slashes through the nerve of European regionalism in Wales, he is striking at European Union itself.
You can use the bold lines and slashes to create the representation of a dragonfly, or you can use the typical insect design as the centerpiece in a tribal motif.
You might choose a single drop of bright red blood against the slashes of a tribal band.
Zabuza subsequently comes flashing through with a series of slashes.