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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

Needs there the praise of the love-written record, The name and the epitaph graved on the stone!

From Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands by Eva Hope

The fires of a thousand passions had graved these deep curves of bitterness, and marred the once genial mouth with the never absent sneer, and perverted an intellect once pure and stately.

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Annie Ashmore

In another mat we found some Indian tomahawks finely graved and painted.

From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley




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