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  • Three tall memorial archways inscribed with Chinese characters stand outside the temple.
  • A truly poignant object is the patinated bronze sheet with names of Olympic champions inscribed on it from the first century B.C. to A.D. 385, after which the Olympics were outlawed. Transformational Objects
  • She inscribed her own name on the textbook.
  • An identifying phrase that probably Goss himself inscribed on the photograph identifies the white substance as gunite, a solution of cement and water used as a finisher.
  • As soon as she was alongside and made fast I went on board and had a good look at her interior, not forgetting to inscribe my name legibly on the most conveniently situated locker in the midshipmen's berth, after which I watched the operation of shipping and stowing her ballast. A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy
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  • According to the theorem, any triangle inscribed in a semicircle is a right triangle, as is shown in the following diagram: The Medieval Problem of Universals
  • She was wearing a gold ring with three red stones, and a wrist band with the name ‘Mary’ inscribed on it that may help identify her.
  • The final part shows how each of the five regular polyhedra can be inscribed in a sphere.
  • It has a face on top, which is inscribed with the letters West Point and the date of graduation.
  • The whole combination of curves which go to make up this sketch is a curious arrangement of words inscribed with the utmost care, in the smallest of characters. The Filigree Ball
  • A presentation was made to each by Co. John Bonham of a decanter and 6 brandy glasses on an inscribed tray.
  • But the result proved that they were sufficiently to exercise, through the popular will and choice, the power which they had formerly put in action without its sanction, though within its proper precinct and with its title falsely inscribed. Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists
  • That his new novel uses photography as a postscript for a moment in history which will forever be indelibly inscribed upon our souls is a gesture both probing and poignant.
  • These words are to be inscribed on a hard green, gold-coated scarab, which is to be inserted through the mouth into the bosom of the deceased. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy
  • As an anglo santero, for example, you might be playing out the roles inscribed by colonial culture, but you're enacting a taboo - ‘going native.’
  • Kepler showed that the distances of the planets can be correlated with the radii of spherical shells, which are inscribed within, and circumscribed around, a nest of the five regular solids.
  • Manufacturers of phones should inscribe a warning on the handsets to make the users aware of hazards mobile phones can cause.
  • Where?" cried I, looking all round me in the surprise of the moment, as if I had expected to see the title magically inscribed for us on the walls of the room. After Dark
  • What mattered was what was inscribed upon the golden rim of the inside of the crown.
  • Many of these Han burials were readily identifiable by inscribed stone stelae, tablets recording the name, titles, and dates of the deceased.
  • She inscribed her own name on the textbook.
  • Momma and Tony the jeweler inscribe, `For my sister, Leigh". WEB OF DREAMS
  • The book is inscribed at the front as belonging to a Mrs Janet Maule and is dated 25 June, 1701, although recipes have been added over a number of years.
  • Then she would inscribe it herself, chisel out each letter with care, a lover's monument to Johannes, to mark his place, their place. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • Located where the bisectors of a triangle's three angles intersect, the incenter is the center of the largest circle that can be inscribed inside that triangle.
  • The narrator is himself an unengaging figure whose status as a blank slate on which his friend Perkus inscribes a more capacious understanding does not make him a character with whom one wants to spend over 450 pages. Detecting a Wrongness
  • Buddhist temple coins here in Japan are inscribed with kana syllables, not kanji ideograms.
  • What then is the overall strategic concept which we should inscribe today?
  • The complex problem of the 3rd phase had better classify Baconian fault to inscribe originally, so convenient the following search and review.
  • The two men watched her inscribe her name; it was the only time her writing was not compressed. THE THORN BIRDS
  • She was presented with an inscribed gold watch.
  • The inscribed tablets give astronomical information dear to George Burt's heart, and quotations from scripture and the poets.
  • According to tradition, recorded by Kshemaraja, the sutras were found, by the sage Yasugupta inscribed on a rock at the foot of Mahadeva mountain, about 12 miles from Srinagar.
  • The Christian woman who can reflect upon a laborious life of domestic duty, looks back upon a scene of true virtue; and if, in order to perform the whole of her allotted task, she was obliged to repress a taste for pursuits more intellectual, the character of magnanimity is inscribed upon her conduct, however retired, or in human estimation insignificant, may have been the daily exercises to which she was appointed. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor
  • This study consisted of a grid of 15 squares, each inscribed with one or more horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines in different orientations.
  • A video piece of handwashing by Bruce Naumann sits comfortably with a splendid display of Delft tiles; and a blue-and-white chamber pot and several life-size sofa-type objects with their "backs" made from tons of processed human feces somehow go nicely with the 1661 English delftware plate deflatingly inscribed "You and I are Earth. Dishing the 'Dirt' on Filth
  • The base for the structure, which is inscribed with ‘Lest we Forget’ was installed in 2001 and has been a focal point of the past two Remembrance Day ceremonies.
  • The variant of the Willard patent banjo clock shown in Plates IX and IXa is inscribed ‘DANIEL / MUNROE’ on the lower glass.
  • On that occasion an oak cross, on which a neighbour of Raonaid had inscribed her favourite poem, was marked with a knife.
  • It has been estimated that they would have contained about 2,500 hectolitres of wine; details of their capacities were inscribed below their necks.
  • The sense of the pledge as debt implied by both translations suggests that the vow or promise is predicated on a loss already inscribed in the speech act.
  • This means that form and content are not fully unified but retain a structure of abstract contraposition: the content is inscribed in the form while retaining much that cannot be grasped in it.
  • The architectural moldings divide the wall into rectangular fields and cusped trefoils, rigorously inscribed by straightedge and compass.
  • On the reverse is inscribed ‘Return from Europe RS 126’.
  • Along the flat of the sword more patterns and words were inscribed.
  • Sir Robert has inscribed on his tombstone the words: ‘He loved his country’.
  • Now a rare silver porringer - a small dish for soup or porridge - inscribed with the words ‘The gift of Sir Thomas Herbert’ is coming up for sale at the London auction house on October 11.
  • Beside it, another tense wooden spar holds an inscribed scarf and an enigmatic black tube resembling a rifle barrel.
  • Inscribed on the tombstone was the words, "Here lies Dave Petzal, late of Field and Stream, who never would settle, for rounds not so extreme. Nothing Works Better than a .338
  • Then there are the votive offerings made by the agency of jaws and body juices: small medallions of gum layering the walls - pale pinks and blues and browns, with names inscribed or incised.
  • Many of these Han burials were readily identifiable by inscribed stone stelae, tablets recording the name, titles, and dates of the deceased.
  • An identifying phrase that probably Goss himself inscribed on the photograph identifies the white substance as gunite, a solution of cement and water used as a finisher.
  • The highly unusual interplay of materials affords rich tonal contrasts and skillfully integrates the solidity of the carved wooden structure with the intricacy of the inscribed inlays.
  • a small pigtail clubbed at the back of his head, like one of Goya's sacristans or a tabellion in an old play, Swann passed by an office in which the lackeys, seated like notaries before their massive registers, rose solemnly to their feet and inscribed his name. Swann's Way
  • And on that monument, as all know, is inscribed in imperishable bronze the prophecy and the Fulfillment: 'All will be joy-smiths, and their task shall be to beat out laughter from the rising anvil of life.' “Malicious chance was having its laugh at him.”
  • She carried a staff that was inscribed with symbols and what looks like carved patterns of vines, at the top rest a pearl.
  • There are also countless manis, dykes of stone from six to sixteen feet in width and from twenty feet to a fourth of a mile in length, roofed with flattish stones, inscribed by the lamas (monks) with the phrase Aum, &c., and purchased and deposited by those who wish to obtain any special benefit from the gods, such as a safe journey. Among the Tibetans
  • The space between this letter and the omicron is apparently uninscribed, presumably because of the defect in the stone.
  • Once upon a time, the door had been inscribed with several lovely characters and a beautiful floral design encompassed the doorway.
  • I always thought I was a colorblind reader," she writes, "until I read this novel, and that ultimate cliche of black life that is inscribed in the word soulful took on a new weight and sense for me. Powell's Books: Overview
  • His recent paintings are not abstract evolutions of ancestral designs but oversized traditional motifs inscribed on a simplified ground.
  • And our prize books were duly inscribed copies of the following three.
  • The feminist repeal movement was highly successful in challenging the gendered power relations inscribed within medical interventionism.
  • In the portion of the Torah inscribed on the mezuzah, we read that one should converse in Torah while in the home, on the road, when one arises, and when one retires.
  • Finally, the octahedron inscribed in the Venus-orbit sphere has itself an inscribed sphere, on which the orbit of Mercury lies.
  • Across the curve of the animal's long neck the butcher's ritual dagger has inscribed a parody of a smile.
  • Instead of the traditional wedding gifts Rachel and Matthew asked their guests to donate a book which had touched that guest's life and inscribe it with a special message.
  • Marked by the thickened release of "good" from "growing," what we find inscribed from within narrative time is both a phrase for cumulative social improvement and an asymptote of its visionary teleology as well, Tennyson secularized: the immediate "growing betterment" (participial adjective plus noun) as well as, hard on its heels, the "growing [ultimately] good Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
  • Although, therefore, the learned divine's monument, with his name duly inscribed, is to be seen at the east end of the churchyard at Aberfoyle, yet those acquainted with his real history do not believe that he enjoys the natural repose of the tomb. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
  • A single curvature shell of an inscribed ellipsoid was used as the experimental shell.
  • Inscribed on the outside of the glass and viewed from the inside, the letters are reversed and reveal a snowy landscape.
  • To the contrary, eschewing the label "African-American writer" can actually reinscribe hurtful assumptions.
  • The names of the dead were inscribed on the wall.
  • At noon that day Billy announced that it was time to give me a lobstick; a spruce was selected on a slate island and trimmed to its proper style, then inscribed: The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
  • If you wanted to borrow my copy of Tobias Wolff's Old School (Knopf, hb, first US edn, vg, inscribed by author) you'd be most welcome. Lawrence, a letter and me
  • The names of nearly 2.5 million of the fallen are inscribed here, all of whom are considered to be divine spirits worshiped under Japan's pantheistic Shinto religion.
  • Surmounting the cairn was a cross of cedar, inscribed with the words: “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” The Great Salt Lake Trail
  • Within the squares of a chessboard, he has inscribed diverse phrases that can be recombined to form thirty-eight separate ballades.
  • He kindly gave the Diary an inscribed copy of his book of poems, Soldiers Of The Sea, some time ago.
  • Other inscribed symbols on the slates are a star-like design that she believes means unity and a flower image that may signify two men loving the same woman.
  • He's one of the kindest, most thoughtful and most generous people I know as evidenced by the fact that he sent me a personally inscribed copy of his book when I owe him roughly 5,000 e-mails, and he's also a leading Lewis scholar, so I can't wait to read his book! Archive 2008-02-01
  • The names of the dead were inscribed on the wall.
  • He proposed successively doubling the number of sides of a regular polygon inscribed in a circle so that the difference in areas would eventually become exhausted.
  • A single gravestone from this period may be inscribed with epitaphs that belong to as many as seven different individuals, though whether or not the grave contained seven bodies is unknown.
  • After a month of fair words Artois came away in April 1793 with a jewelled sword inscribed With God, for the King but no more tangible support.
  • Perhaps he saw me as some kind of tabula rasa upon which he could inscribe the unique signature of his craft, like a missionary teaching a savage to read the word of God. Broken Music, A Memoir
  • The prize winners each receive a book with their names inscribed on the first page.
  • It is a brass plate inscribed with the name of a passenger on the ship, Colonel Edward James.
  • He inscribed those poems to [ for ] his patron.
  • A real book is parchment*, scrolled onto beechwood; hand inscribed in oak-gall ink. Making Light: Amazon versus Macmillan
  • The prize winners each receive a book with their names inscribed on the first page.
  • Perhaps, the word is inscribed in English so that a cross-section of tourists would understand it.
  • Before he rushed off, he asked us to inscribe copies of our books for him.
  • Their names are inscribed above their heads, with a text describing the occasion presented in a cartouche.
  • The Conservatives presented him with a jewelled sword inscribed ‘Saviour of the Punjab.’
  • Mrs. Sartoris bowed assent; the introduction made, his name duly inscribed on the lady's tablets, and Captain Conyers exclaimed, Belles and Ringers
  • There are frescoed walls and ceilings, weighty beams inscribed with German proverbs, and a preponderance of carved and knotted pine.
  • Sometimes a blob in a grey big rib duffel coat would audibly giggle when she started reciting the magical powers and diabolical curses inscribed on the trifold. What it means to be a doctor is to love
  • Mickelson has been diplomatic to a fault in his warm-up event at Bay Hill, arguing that he would "love it" if his name were inscribed alongside Woods 'on the Masters draw-sheet. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • The vividness of both names made it easy for them to be inscribed in locals' minds and memories.
  • The theme of fluidity here becomes inscribed into the cinematic space.
  • An immersion of this sort in the deep ethos of literature, in its placeless disposition of indwelling effect, refuses the complacencies of the inscribed. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
  • Every circle was inscribed inside a square such that the sides of the circle just touched the sides of the square.
  • It acts as a kind of palimpsest over which the literary writer might inscribe his/her own variations on "criminal" behavior and its sources in unruly human impulses. February 2010
  • For £10 per tree, the donor's name will be inscribed on a plaque in the wood and also included in a time capsule to be buried there.
  • A majority of the calligraphy sheets were written on paper, however, a group of Qur’anic fragments from the 9th and 10th centuries were inscribed on parchment. New Web Exhibit From Library of Congress: Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy « ResourceShelf
  • Fly-leaf of a 1599 Bible perhaps inscribed by her husband to Shakespeare's last direct descendant, his grand-daughter Elizabeth Bernard.
  • Thousands of bones and tortoise shells were discovered there which had been inscribed with ancient Chinese characters.
  • The ostensible subject is Dante's vision of the death of his lover, as expressed in a passage from the Italian poet's Vita Nuova, lines from which are inscribed on the reverse of the painting.
  • He says in so many words that the periphery of the dodecagon is greater than that of the circle; and that the more sides there are to the inscribed figure, the more does it exceed the circle in which it is. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
  • Numberless mementos are in existence that tell of the intellectual activities of prehistoric man; such mementos as flint implements, pieces of pottery, and fragments of bone, inscribed with pictures that may fairly be spoken of as works of art; but so long as no written word accompanies these records, so long as no name of king or scribe comes down to us, we feel that these records belong to the domain of archæology rather than to that of history. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
  • Coming to the top of the staircase, up which he had been followed by a servant with a pallid countenance and a small pigtail clubbed at the back of his head, like one of Goya’s sacristans or a tabellion in an old play, Swann passed by an office in which the lackeys, seated like notaries before their massive registers, rose solemnly to their feet and inscribed his name. Swann's Way
  • The upper chamber houses their decorative graves amidst profusely inscribed gilted walls while their actual tombs are in a crypt below.
  • Thus, the external, extrinsic sociological fact or system of realities finds itself inscribed within the internal instrinsic experience of the film in what Sartre in a suggestive and too-little known concept in his Psychology of Imagination calls the analogon: 5 that structural nexus in our reading or view - ing experience, in our operations of decoding or aesthetic reception, which can then do double duty and stand as the substitute and the representative within the aesthetic object of a phenomenon on the outside which cannot in the very nature of things be Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Bulgarian king and the Roman pontiff is inscribed in the Gesta The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • amande" of several bands of different colours, on the central one being inscribed in a mixture of Greek and Latin characters -- one of the new fashions brought in by the Greek revival: Illuminated Manuscripts
  • Looking up one sees an immense blue sky, painted with spheres and white insets inscribed with the names of leading Greek sculptors from the 4th century: Cephisodotus, Lysippus, Myron, Phidias, Polyclitus, Praxiteles and Scopas. Cy Twombly's Ceiling at the Musee du Louvre
  • There was not much of "comeliness" in the "marred face" of an unresenting Christ, but how fascinating the autocratic, prophet-painted, empire-inscribed pose of Redemption's Champion, clad in ermine of final decree, alternately welcoming his ancient "Elect," and with awful leftward gesture upon countless millions pronouncing the changeless judgment of "Depart. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898
  • An admirer had given Adams an ivory cane, inscribed with a line from Horace Justum et tenacem propositi virum —“the just and steady-purposed man” and the motto, “Right of Petition Triumphant.” America's First Dynasty
  • The mitre had a band, or plate of inscribed gold.
  • It was natural, therefore, that the ephors should entrust him with the scytale on which the names of the suspects were inscribed; and in answer to his inquiry which of the young men he was to take with him, they said: Hellenica
  • All Victor Carl knows is that he’s just woken up with his suit in tatters, his socks missing, and a stinging pain in his chest thanks to a new tattoo he doesn’t remember getting: a heart inscribed with the name Chantal Adair. Marked Man by William Lashner: Book summary
  • Archaeologists digging in Jerusalem uncovered a piece of pottery inscribed with the name Goliath.
  • Each column supported an appropriate entablature, on the frieze of which was inscribed ‘Pro Patria,’ reminding the legislator of the end and object of his delegation.
  • All Victor Carl knows is that he’s just woken up with his suit in tatters, his socks missing, and a stinging pain in his chest thanks to a new tattoo he doesn’t remember getting: a heart inscribed with the name Chantal Adair. Marked Man by William Lashner: Book summary
  • Inscribed by the priests of Ptolemy V, it contains the same text written in Greek and in hieroglyphics.
  • At the same time, she would inscribe a self that is so multiple and mutable as to subvert, by its very nature, any pretence to stability - much less the transcendence of a single identity.
  • The lad carried the precious words that God inscribed on stone tablets to Ethiopia and today they reside in a little church in the ancient city of Axum.
  • The key aspects of this allegorization are suggested, or indeed inscribed, in the inscription, itself already allegorizing the materiality of inscription and the material carpentry of inscription of the couplet just cited in Plate 6. Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars.
  • The frame of the inscribed plaque is also variegated.
  • On the back he had the jeweler inscribe, `For my sister, Leigh". WEB OF DREAMS
  • Those words are inscribed on a Memorial Marker at the place he was shot on the border of Hyde Park.
  • The names of foreign enemies and Egyptian traitors were inscribed on clay pots, tablets, or figurines of bound prisoners.
  • Following the trial, the people of New York City awarded Hamilton the 'freedom of the city' and gave him a gold box inscribed with "For let the laws be never so much overborne by some one individual's power, let the spirit of freedom be never so intimidated, still sooner or later they assert themselves. Jury Nullification: The Right of Free Americans
  • Inscribed on the reverse, ‘Jehan de Court ma faict 1555’, it is the only fully signed and dated piece by the artist.
  • I was released from his granite-faced grip and made my way to my assigned cubicle, complete with an oblong sign stuck on the outside with my name inscribed in a bold font. After Hours
  • Along with a colossal statue of Athena, bases for busts inscribed with the names of Homer, Herodotus and other noted literary figures were found here.
  • But there in her sanctuary, I could still find her name inscribed in her cartouche, the ring of eternity.
  • The same piece of text had been inscribed on the stone three times, in Greek, demotic and hieroglyphics.
  • He made drawings with sophisticated perspectival schemes that are inscribed with the hour and day they were made, and concentrate on innumerable subtleties of variation in colour and tone.
  • On the islet appeared a beautiful woman, clad in a watchet-coloured silken mantle, bound with a broad girdle inscribed with characters like the phylacteries of the Hebrews. Kenilworth
  • The relevant quotation appeared on the dustjacket of Hitch-22, Hitchens's memoir published in 2010, but was overlain by a red cross with "no, CH" inscribed beside it. Christopher Hitchens obituary
  • The copy was presented by the author to Claudio Gremese, a witness in this case, on 27 April 1992, shortly before the priority date of the patent, and its flyleaf is inscribed accordingly…
  • What I propose is that instead of the goddess of liberty we shall have next inside the 13 stars a ring inscribed with the words PERPETUAL UNION; within the ring the allseeing eye, crowned with a halo; beneath this eye the American flag, bearing in its field stars equal to the number of the States united; in the folds of the bars the words GOD, LIBERTY, LAW. Berlinski's Wisdom
  • Each column supported an appropriate entablature, on the frieze of which was inscribed Pro Patria, ‘reminding the legislator of the end and object of his delegation.’
  • Excerpts from these will inscribed, along with Chinese ghost stories, on the leaves of a plantain palm - a tree said to attract ghosts in China - installed at the Fruitmarket.
  • DO you know what your partner wants to have inscribed on their gravestone?
  • The inscriber removed two of the column's flutes, so that five hexameters of verse could be carved upon the marble.
  • Those infamous words were inscribed on the War Room walls.
  • Of course, we wish to be inscribed in the book of life, but it should be a life that we wish to be in rather than one that we seek to escape from.
  • On the Lemnos Stele, an as-yet undeciphered phrase is inscribed: aker tavarśiu vanalasial śerunai murinail. Nouns modifying nouns in Etruscan and related languages
  • a queerly inscribed sheet of paper
  • To write properly I would need to know which picture to draw and which sounds from the spoken word to inscribe next to it.
  • There are numerous further examples of closely comparable enamels inscribed with these monograms.
  • It also has some 700 hectares of the fan-leaved corypha or talipot palm Corypha umbraculifera, on the leaves of which Buddhist sermons were originally inscribed. Dong Phayayan Khao-Yai Forest Complex, Thailand
  • All over the world, cryptographers are trying to unlock Kryptos, a coded message of fiendish complexity that stands inscribed on a sculpture on the grounds of the CIA's headquarters.
  • Similarly, the vertexes of an hypocycloid are the points on the curve that coincides with an inscribed circle.
  • Among the items in the shack are a custom-designed beekeeper's veil that is embroidered with the reproductive system of the queen bee and a white jumpsuit inscribed with bee grafting instructions, wisdom, and lore.
  • Indeed, large stones of the day were not polished, making it quite impossible for microscopic letters to be inscribed on them in any visible way.
  • The frieze at the top is inscribed Paci Populorum Sospitae, To the people's liberty and peace.
  • Another attraction is a huge bell inscribed with the images of the Buddha, initially designed to ring every 7 minutes, 108 times a day, meant to signify the release of 108 kinds of human vexes. Giant Statue | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • One of those artefacts was a pewter plate inscribed with the name Matute.
  • She was presented with an inscribed gold watch.
  • It was covered with a slab of original limestone, still blackened from fire and inscribed with the date.
  • In these pieces, which suggest, among other possibilities, Aztec or Mayan reliefs, Toledo inscribed fine traceries of animal figures on caked, mortarlike accretions of sand and pigment.
  • The mitre had a band, or plate of inscribed gold.
  • The inclusion of an empty leather luggage label simply inscribed Josef Bien is one reminder of her personal involvement.
  • It is not a family Bible but is inscribed on the flyleaf in the utility hand of a servant.
  • One of the "dreamiest" interpretations I have heard, it seems as if our two principals set out to inscribe the most gorgeously "Viennese" realization we have had since the days of Fritz Kreisler. Audiophile Audition Headlines
  • There are frescoed walls and ceilings, weighty beams inscribed with German proverbs, and a preponderance of carved and knotted pine.
  • Similarly, in "Reptiles," a flat, stylized lizard lifts its head from a sketchbook page inscribed with interlocking lizard shapes and, with increasing dimension and detail, takes a stroll around the artist's desk before dwindling once more to two dimensions. NYT > Home Page
  • Federico's guests, even if they could not discern the names and encomia (prominently) inscribed on the portraits, would have recognized most of the uomini illustri through quattrocento artistic conventions used for each subject's clothing, accessories, and gestures. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • The prize winners each receive a book with their names inscribed on the first page.
  • Emily just smiled, turned so her back showed to most of us, and lifted her shirt enough to reveal the word agnitio inscribed in green and blue across it in finely calligraphed letters.
  • It was a common practice in Greek and Latin lands to make use of slabs already inscribed, i.e. to take the reverse of a slab containing a heathen inscription for the inscribing of a Christian one; such a slab is called an opisthograph. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • The envelope in her hand is inscribed with a man's name and address, suggesting a romantic element.
  • The watches are inscribed with serial numbers.
  • The apprentice class of 1995-1999 were presented with inscribed verniers and their certificates to mark their graduation.
  • Inside the cover someone had inscribed the words 'To Thomas, with love'.
  • This theorem shows that if a cone is intersected by a plane in a conic, then the foci of the conic are the points where this plane is touched by the spheres inscribed in the cone.
  • The prize winners each receive a book with their names inscribed on the first page.
  • He treasures Parveen's poetical works inscribed by the poetess herself to Aitzaz Ahsan.
  • Istanbul is inscribed on the map of unatoned crimes, closer to Raskolnikov's Petersburg than to Woody Allen's London in ‘Matchpoint’.
  • Each capsule was inscribed with the person's name and a personal message.
  • Round her is inscribed NIL INTENTATUM NOSTRI LIQUERE: and on the exergue, AUSPICIIS GEORGII III. Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
  • Those are the words inscribed in the entry way of a veterans administration hospital I once visited in my youth.
  • Our names will be inscribed in the books of ages!
  • Then, ‘With best wishes from one Celt to another’ he inscribed my copy of ‘Colossus’.
  • And yet we are wont to date our birth, as that of the babes we christen, from the body's advent, so duteously inscribed in our family registers, as if time and space could chronicle the periods of the immortal mind, and mark its longevity by our chronometers.
  • In the book she recalls him noticing they were "grubby" after a journey from Vienna, and showing them to the bathroom, where he had brushes inscribed "AH". The Duchess of Devonshire: 'When you are very old, you cry over some things, but not a lot'
  • Although you can't remember it, you've probably seen photos of your first birthday party: you in a highchair, wearing a cone hat strapped around your chin, seated behind a frosted cake inscribed with your name and adorned with a waxy '1' candle. Tammy Tibbetts: A First Birthday Like None Other
  • One is inscribed in Latin and also in ogham.
  • Our first port of call was the lepers cemetery whose tombstones are still clearly inscribed with the biodata of those resting beneath them.
  • A jazz-loving Soviet medical student discovered that he could inscribe sound grooves on the surface of X-ray plates, and invented a machine that allowed him to produce low-quality but sufficient copies of music recordings. A Renegade History of the United States
  • Chisel in hand, he walked slowly around the base of his giant sculpture, carefully inspecting the detail on the eagle crest in front, and the name inscribed on the back – John Garang de Mabior. South Sudan celebrates a sweet day of separation
  • The authors describe a paper by Kürschák written in 1898 in which a regular dodecagon inscribed in a unit circle is investigated.
  • The inclusion of an empty leather luggage label simply inscribed Josef Bien is one reminder of her personal involvement.
  • As owner of this fief, Claude Follow was one of the “seven times twenty-one” seigneurs claiming manorial dues in Paris and its suburbs; and in that capacity his name was long to be seen inscribed between the Hôtel de Tancarville, belonging to Maître François le Rez, and the College of Tours, in the cartulary deposited at Saint-Martin des Champs. II. Claude Frollo. Book IV
  • It involves acknowledging above all, ‘the difference inscribed in nature and subjectivity: sexual difference’.
  • He describes the frame's edges being inscribed with Japanese characters and expresses the wish to translate them.

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