ikon

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They get their stocks mostly from tourists � often in exchange for "ancient" ikons fresh from the ikon factory � but can get almost any item through a smuggling network centered in Odessa.

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Lectured Updike: "To criticize Miss Novak because her tone of voice is always the same is as absurd as criticizing a Byzantine ikon because it is static and badly drawn."

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But the sobor had none of Orthodoxy's historic pomp�not even an ikon to remind the assembled bishops of the glory that once was St. Petersburg.

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The Rogers Group had a ritual position in the U. S. home as un varying as the ikon opposite the door of pre-War Russia.

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It was a tiny silver ikon on a cord, such as is sometimes worn next the skin with a cross.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor