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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

I knew her in her prime, Before the seal of Time Was graven on her brow, As Age hath graved it now: When radiant Youth was just subdued To yield to gracious womanhood.

From The Coast of Bohemia by Thomas Nelson Page

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

Bright shine the helmets strewn with gold and gems, And shields and hauberks graved.

From La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier by Léonce Rabillon




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