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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They descended carefully, a step at a time, for nine floors, like a solemn religious procession bearing aloft a sacred relic or ikon.

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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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Since then the artist's famed picture of his mother has become such a Mother's Day ikon* that a separate study of the Woman Behind the Painting became inevitable.

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The rich man snarled at her and departed, but when he got home he said to the ikon, “A pretty surety thou art!”

From Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)