ikon

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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."

From Time Magazine Archive

His body eaten by acid, Codreanu was identified by the three crosses he had worn around his neck, a wedding ring and a small ikon.

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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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For as long as an ikon hung in the corner of a Russian izba, Patriarch Sergei would always be right.

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I fell on my knees before the ikon and wept for him before the Holy Mother of God, our swift defender and helper.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor