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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

Would you unfold the mystery, and read The record the eternal hand of God Has, of himself, on Nature's tablets graved?

From Enthusiasm and Other Poems by Moodie, Susanna

In her breast she hid a dagger with dragon-lines graved on it, and upon her forehead she wrote the name of the Great God.

From The Chinese Fairy Book by Wilhelm, Richard

She said to her ladies that when she should be dead, they should find ‘Calais’ graved upon her heart.”

From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Holt, Emily Sarah




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