ikon
Example Sentences
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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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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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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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She clasped her father in her arms and kissed his wasted hands; then she gave him the ikon and received his blessing,40 kneeling by his bed and weeping.
From A Russian Gentleman by S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich) Aksakov
