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- He threaded his way back to the ferry landing, found nobody at large there, and walked boldly on board the boat, for he knew she was tenantless except that there was a watchman, who always turned in and slept like a graven image. [5]
- It is enough to make a graven image laugh, to see apparently rational people, away down here in this wholesome and merciless slaughter-day for shams, still mouthing empty reverence for those moss-backed frauds and scoundrelisms, hereditary kingship and so-called "nobility. [5]
- I doubt if there has been a more faithful reader of these graven stones than myself for many a long day. [6]
- It gives you the right to do much that might pain me, and has graven your name on my heart, the foremost among those to whom I am indebted for any benefit.--They are but few. [10]
- I hastily placed the lamps, took the clay in my hand, and feature by feature I brought forth with bitter joy the image that is deeply graven in my heart, believing that thus I might be released from the spell. [10]
- I have a picture of her in my mind which was graven there, clear and sharp and vivid, sixty-three years ago. [5]
- Conscience was graven on the broad forehead. [9]
- As one sees on some ancient urn, upthrown From out a tomb, records that none may read With like interpretation, and the stone Retains its graven fealty to the dead: So, on the great palimpsest men have writ Such lines o'ercrossed that none interprets it. [11]
- It was, indeed, not so much the graven red profiles of priests and soldiers that came tome at sight of these Egyptians, but the singing fellaheen of the water-buckets of the Nile. [9]
- The ancients had never painted one otherwise nor graven it in stone; nay, they had used it as the symbol for the number five. [10]
- He seemed to me like the god Seth in his fury, and each one of his slow words was graven upon my soul as by a hammer and chisel. [10]
- The plough might have been graven on our arms, but always the rifle. [9]
- We have done great deeds; distant nations have felt our hand; we have planted our pillars of conquest by their rivers, and graven the record of our deeds on their rocks. [10]
- Monsieur de St. Gre himself poured me a cup from the dainty, quaintly wrought Louis Quinze coffeepot, graven with the coat of arms of his family. [9]
- He was evidently good, and sweet, and lovable, and guileless; and so it was exceedingly painful to see him stand there, as serene as a graven image, and deliver himself of answers which were veritably miraculous for stupidity and ignorance. [5]
- One smoky morning early in December Stephen arrived late at the office to find Richter sitting idle on his stool, concern graven on his face. [9]
- The inspector was as self-contained as a graven image. [5]
- But not beneath a graven stone, To plead for tears with alien eyes; A slender cross of wood alone Shall say, that here a maiden lies In peace beneath the peaceful skies. [6]
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