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  • Owen rarely threw anything away; and something that my mother had given him would not only have been saved—it would have been enshrined!†  (source)
  • Your father had been a respected scholar and also devoted to the six virtues of Buddhism enshrined in this pagoda.†  (source)
  • She was majestically tall and all but enshrined by a voluminous mane of golden blond hair.†  (source)
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  • This humble person is deeply sorry for your loss and hopes you will rest assured that the remains of both your honored parents are enshrined in the village cemetery.†  (source)
  • The century has witnessed the defeat of Nazism by force of arms; but the erosion of the Soviet regimes was caused, among other things, by the sheer persistence, beneath the imposed ideological conformity, of cultural values and psychic resistances of a kind that these stories and images enshrine.†  (source)
  • And I believe in a country that enshrines each of these three things, a country that offers nothing but the promise of being more fully human, and never guarantees its success.†  (source)
  • He could not accept the idea of enshrining reason as a religion, as desired by the philosophes.†  (source)
  • Disposal of the dead, by decent cremation and enshrinement, is a greater moral responsibility to the Japanese than adequate care of the living.†  (source)
  • I enshrined the skull of my father in a Fremen rock mound overlooking Harg Pass.†  (source)
  • His fierce, cramped posture revealed more than his features might have shown; it betrayed the torturing shame of a man of pride and passion, a man who had been confronted in his degradation by the woman he had dared to enshrine in his heart.†  (source)
  • Its message may be misinterpreted, and the great idea it enshrines may be set back for two or three generations.†  (source)
  • Individuals must have supposed that they were cutting the letters of their names deep into everlasting tablets of brass, or enshrining their reputations forever in the hearts of their countrymen, while, as to fact, the affair would appear in printed reports under a meek and immaterial title.†  (source)
  • Whenever an alumnus was killed in battle, it was traditional for his next of kin to return his ring to the museum for enshrinement upon black velvet in the macabre trophy case where these rings were proudly mounted.†  (source)
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