ikon

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During the elaborate ritual in which the bride relinquished her title for the official name of Mrs. Dikran Kuumjian, her gown caught fire from a burning ikon, was quickly extinguished.

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When they found it by an ikon and paper flowers, she vainly implored them to leave its contents behind.

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A sculpture like Saint Sebastian, 1957-58, its bronze skin crusted with the shapes of reclaimed junk that Paolozzi had incorporated into the mold, balances neatly between golem and ikon.

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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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The ikon of St. Michael is said to have been in the wreck of the “Neva,” and was rescued after being cast up by the sea.

From The Story of Sitka The Historic Outpost of the Northwest Coast by Andrews, Clarence Leroy