Encapsulated in clear, space-age cubes, they feel oddly comforting in your hand, like a lucky talisman.

But I could never part with my lucky talisman!

It is my lucky talisman.

It's not that religion is a lucky talisman, or that athletes should pray for victory.

Don't you realize, Janty, that I'm a lucky talisman?

The crew members considered the totem a lucky talisman and had it depicted on the ship's crest.

But Tévez was hardly a lucky talisman as Romero performed extremely badly by finishing in the last place of the 83 players.

I was always your lucky talisman.

The lobeless wonder said he had a fortune-token, a lucky talisman that he'd bought from a wandering Andorian tradesman.

Bresnan, who had surgery to remove bone fragments from the joint on Oct 30, is England's lucky talisman.