graved

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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

He stooped and picked up a dark red stone, one side of which was wonderfully brilliant, and the other was graved with ciphers.

From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Hardenberg, Friedrich von

In another mat we found some Indian tomahawks finely graved and painted.

From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Beverley, Robert

May thoughts of God on my heart be graved, And I be known as a sinner saved.

From Gleams of Sunshine Optimistic Poems by Chant, Joseph Horatio