ikon

Example Sentences

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It was brought to the window, lighted like an ikon.

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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But the sobor had none of Orthodoxy's historic pomp�not even an ikon to remind the assembled bishops of the glory that once was St. Petersburg.

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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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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 Aksakov, S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich)