graved
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When they pull up to the empty lot, she isn’t sure it’s right—the dirt graved in white and the scrappy weeds glazed to silver.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 20, 2017
Those words of Czechoslovakia's national hero, Jan Hus, are en graved on the base of his statue in Prague.
From Time Magazine Archive
He stooped and picked up a dark red stone, one side of which was wonderfully brilliant, and the other was graved with ciphers.
From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Friedrich von Hardenberg
All are equal there; and the memory that he left, and the characters that he graved on the rock, while they move our pity, stir our wonder too.
From Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson
Rather to him, the artist, whose fine soul Has from the block moulded this godlike form, And graved it there.
From The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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