ikon

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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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Troitski had an ikon, a painted image of the Blessed Virgin whose tears, copiously shed, performed miracles.

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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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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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But I don't know what I'm saying ... and only fancy, with the ikon on his neck he spat at me....

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor