ikon

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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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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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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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She fell on her knees in her garret before the ikon, and, with floods of bitter tears, pressed her face on the dirt-stained floor.

From A Russian Gentleman by Aksakov, S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich)