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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

His own house Breidablik, on whose columns Balder graved The enchantments that recall the dead to life.

From Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

Then on the stone, As she had said, graved Eblis, and thereon Did set his seal.

From Lilith The Legend of the First Woman by Ada Langworthy Collier

In later years, Because they ne'er could learn his name or race, Nor yet forget his gentle looks, the name Of Deodatus graved they on his tomb.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere




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