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  • As he scribbled an inscription onto the title page, he said, "All I ask in exchange is that you read this brilliant and haunting novelization of my favorite video game."†   (source)
  • But even in the bright moonlight, it was still too dark for me to make out the inscription on the headstone.†   (source)
  • There was an inscription carved around the top: Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi.†   (source)
  • On the back, he had scribbled an inscription: "Don't let 'em clip your wings."†   (source)
  • $25 REWARD for the return of a gold railroad watch inscribed: To Ezra Ford in appreciation of thirty years' service to the Milwaukee Road.†   (source)
  • He knelt and read the inscription: In Loving Memory Winifred Foster Jackson Dear Wife Dear Mother 1870-1948†   (source)
  • Not that it's cleaner than the rest, or more likely to have toilet paper, but it offers inscriptions.†   (source)
  • POISON Below that, in broad green script, the words "Copper protected!" were inscribed.†   (source)
  • Having inscribed his signature on twelve sheets of paper to his perfect satisfaction, the Bishop established a seventh pile at the edge of his desk, replaced the pen in its stand, and for the first time looked the Count in the eye.†   (source)
  • But Lale can't help wondering how he can feel nothing for the people they have just seen, the agony of death inscribed on their faces and twisted bodies.†   (source)
  • She recalled the inscription "Arbeit Macht Frei" from a report she had read on the concentration camps.†   (source)
  • A small, quiet neighbourhood with Arabic writing and crescent moons inscribed on the facades of the houses.†   (source)
  • The celebrated sketch consisted of a perfect circle in which was inscribed a nude male...his arms and legs outstretched in a naked spread eagle.†   (source)
  • The cadets inscribe the words into their composition books.†   (source)
  • Bod had copied down their inscription and now he was only thinking about the beetle when somebody said, "Boy?†   (source)
  • The beam of Minerva's flashlight illuminated the inscription: DANNY LEWIS HANSFORD MARCH I, 1960, MAY 2, 1981.†   (source)
  • Like most people, Horace felt the need not merely to know but to envision clearly whatever had happened; furthermore it was his obligation to envision it clearly so that in the official register of Island County deaths the truth, however painful, might be permanently inscribed.†   (source)
  • He turned the tablet on its side to reveal that it had been inscribed with Mae's full name: MAEBELLINE RENNER HOLLAND.†   (source)
  • I mean, before he knew he was signing up—even then he had written his name in that way you see names inscribed on graves.†   (source)
  • Knowing how the story always went, Celaena lifted the candle to the arches above the portals, looking for any inscriptions regarding the sure death that would meet her if she walked beneath a specific arch.†   (source)
  • Inscribed inside the locket on the side opposite the photo it says, "My ray of Hope."†   (source)
  • Sure enough, the title page bore an inscription in my grandfather's shaky handwriting.†   (source)
  • Baba was reciting a long poem he had deciphered from ancient stone inscriptions.†   (source)
  • My fingers grazed the cool brass, felt the markings of my father's inscription.†   (source)
  • There's a symbol here, something inscribed underneath all the dirt and pebbles.†   (source)
  • The inscription said something like IVLIVS.†   (source)
  • Their luxury was teatime, between four and five, when they took down from the wooden slatted shelves their miniature brown teapots inscribed with their names and sat together in a little dayroom off the ward.†   (source)
  • His oar (with his teammates' names inscribed in gold) hung from iron hoops on the factory wall.†   (source)
  • I didn't have a chance personally to say good-bye to Schindler, but I joined with all the other workers in presenting him with a ring, made from a prisoner's gold tooth, which bore an inscription in Hebrew from the Talmud: "He who saves a life saves the world entire."†   (source)
  • After lying wide-eyed for several moments, staring at the ceiling, I climbed down and retrieved the ring from the pocket of my school jacket and held it up to the light to look at the inscription.†   (source)
  • They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over, on every available surface.†   (source)
  • A duplicate of the black symbol was inscribed on the metal.†   (source)
  • From the character and turn of the inscription "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above" I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.†   (source)
  • Near the west end of town, near the shattered remnants of a structure still bearing the inscribed lintel of Poets" Amphitheatre, something stood waiting.†   (source)
  • It was naturally shaped like a heart, and he took it to a stone carver who inscribed "Nelly" into its surface.†   (source)
  • I read his inscription again, cried a bit, and promised him that I would do my best.†   (source)
  • On the back, surrounded by the words waterproof antimagnetic, and shock-protected, her married initials, A.G., are inscribed.†   (source)
  • In a narrow, diamond-shaped park, by a black granite monument inscribed with the Five Right Actions, and the name of the Garseddai patron who had wished to impress them on the local residents, one of my lieutenants passed another and complained that this annexation had been disappointingly dull.†   (source)
  • He dipped his hand in the sticky black mud again and was inscribing three wavy lines on her forehead when she suddenly opened her bright green eyes.†   (source)
  • I pushed on the spring, and the cameo front opened to reveal a tiny inscription.†   (source)
  • That same year Sullivan inscribed a set of drawings, "To Daniel H. Burnham, with the best wishes of his friend Louis H. Sullivan."†   (source)
  • They say he's got fat peacocks strutting around in a courtyard, protected by high walls, pecking up grain from silver plates inscribed with Moorish designs.†   (source)
  • Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF!†   (source)
  • The inscription said this: ELIZA WIFE OF J.R. PLEASANT JUL 12, 1888 OCTOBER 28, 1924 GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN Until I read those dates, I hadn't done the math: Henrietta was barely four years old when she lost her mother, about the same age Sonny was when Henrietta died.†   (source)
  • There was a date inscribed on the base, 1234, and words inscribed around it: nephilim: facilis descensus averni.†   (source)
  • Of course the inscriptions were usually in Greek which I couldn't read, but I believed him.†   (source)
  • But any doubt that the Briarcrest Christian School served up the sort of education Betty Boo had in mind was allayed by the sight of the passage from the Book of Matthew inscribed on the outside of the main building: With men this is impossible; with God all things are possible.†   (source)
  • Ryan saw that words were painted on the tubes, with other inscriptions forged onto the metal itself.†   (source)
  • It was an inscription in Cass's loopy script, my name big, the message little.†   (source)
  • But in the last century or so, as actual Babylonian ziggurats have been excavated, astrological diagrams-pictures of the heavens-have been found inscribed into their tops.†   (source)
  • Other than the dates of her birth and death, the only inscription was: LOVED BY MANY.†   (source)
  • There was space for a small picture and, on the opposite side, an inscription in French.†   (source)
  • Every word of that poem was inscribed for him.†   (source)
  • Looking carefully, she noticed an inscription carved into the railing.†   (source)
  • Desperate to infect her with his own madness, he sent her miniaturist's verses inscribed with the point of a pin on camellia petals.†   (source)
  • Back home, it occurred to Palmer that since he now could read quite well, he should have another look at the inscription on the golden pigeon statue in the den.†   (source)
  • Again, she faced the wheel-locked inner door, seeing now a faint inscription etched in the metal above the handle.†   (source)
  • He tipped the box over and found an inscription etched into the bottom.†   (source)
  • Chipper had, after all, eaten the family Bible the winter before, chewed right through it from Genesis to Revelation, shredding generations of inscribed Hickams in the process.†   (source)
  • If he fell or jumped and couldn't finally swim to safety, they would find these things: a watch with his father's name inscribed on the back, his wallet with $200 in cash, his driver's license, a pebble from the stream near his childhood home that he had carried with him for thirty years.†   (source)
  • There are names inscribed on the bronze panels, dozens of names.†   (source)
  • Leaning against the podium behind the casket was the wooden paddle SEAL Team TWO had presented Adam four years earlier, "The Ballad of Adam Brown" inscribed on its blade.†   (source)
  • They reached the first of a labyrinthine series of rooms, shifting and crackling with groups of people, with bright paintings above and around them, and stretching into the far distance, like tombstones with unreadable inscriptions.†   (source)
  • I picked the pencil out of his palm and was glad it had been sharpened to a stub so he couldn't see my name in gold letters inscribed on the side.†   (source)
  • She knew his name was Thomas Stone because it was inscribed inside the surgical textbook he'd placed at his bedside.†   (source)
  • The inscription: warning!†   (source)
  • Dewey looked at the gray stone inscribed with four names, and the date of their death: November 15, 1959.†   (source)
  • It had already been officially inscribed, and nothing could be done.†   (source)
  • The inscription he chose to go under his father's name on the gravestone read: HE WANTED THEKINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH.†   (source)
  • When Billy Pilgrim's name was inscribed in the ledger of the prison camp, he was given a number.†   (source)
  • A number of people wore T-shirts inscribed Long Tall Sally.†   (source)
  • He inscribed her copy of The Comedians, "To Ophelia, who knows the real Haiti."†   (source)
  • MY BROTHER BELIEVES IN GOD When he was nine and a half, he found a little red volume called The Book of Jewish Thoughts inscribed to our father, David Singer, on the occasion of his Bar Mitzvah.†   (source)
  • Looking down at the frayed parchment, he saw that the pledge had already been inscribed in black script.†   (source)
  • He showered me with books for all occasions, each inscribed with a personal proclamation of his affection.†   (source)
  • It was inscribed with the words You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.†   (source)
  • It had contained a camera, a telephoto lens, a small Olympus pocket tape recorder, a leather-bound photograph album, and a little box with a necklace and a gold ring inscribed TILDA AND JACOB BJURMAN APRIL 23, 1951.†   (source)
  • Unbeknownst to most Americans, JFK has a habit of collecting scrimshaw and often bids anonymously for these pieces of inscribed whale's teeth.†   (source)
  • 'What does the writing say?' asked Frodo, who was trying to decipher the inscription on the arch.†   (source)
  • I knew that the man who inscribed it had foreseen these ruins and did not want his masonry identified with the wrong era.†   (source)
  • "God save the Congress, Liberty, and Adams," an illuminated inscription proclaimed.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps the inscription is a magical instruction," said Charles.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, if I could escape from tinder my stepmother's eye, I would linger in the churchyard, trying to copy the forms of the letters inscribed upon the tombstones.†   (source)
  • The shirt had an inscription in white schizoid letters: I've gone to find myself.†   (source)
  • In October 1829 that Franklin had a son, George, who eventually purchased the Holy Bible that still remains in the family, with all those English names inscribed.†   (source)
  • Furious, he read the inscription again and swore under his breath.†   (source)
  • Several illegal invitations and anatomically doubtful suggestions were inscribed.†   (source)
  • I looked into a small office, containing a flat-top desk with a telephone, a typewriter on its table, a bookcase with shelves of books and pamphlets, and a huge map of the world inscribed with ancient nautical signs and a heroic figure of Columbus to one side.†   (source)
  • I run my fingers over the inscription beneath it: The Key Holds the Truth.†   (source)
  • The knight glanced at the inscriptions.†   (source)
  • The inscription reads, "In confidence we lay our cause before the whole world.†   (source)
  • There was some sort of inscription engraved around the stone, but it was written in no language Mark had ever seen before.†   (source)
  • One exterior wall adjacent to the portico was unveiled to reveal an inscription of the boys' names and victories carved into the stone for posterity.†   (source)
  • Breezes from the sluggish river seem to inscribe her skin with metal tips.†   (source)
  • I promise you, gentlemen, that before this sale is ended each one of you will have the number 'fifty' inscribed in that final box, signifying that you have done your part for Trinity ....†   (source)
  • He folded the knapsacks and stashed them on a shelf, made the bed (a cot under the wall of inscriptions), and got things ready in case the Austrians were bold enough to attack at night, which he thought even more unlikely than that they would attack in the day.†   (source)
  • The window displayed a pyramid of slabs in brownish-purple jackets, inscribed: The Vulture Is Molting.†   (source)
  • Over the library of one of our great law schools is inscribed the motto, "Not under man but under God and law."†   (source)
  • He read the inscriptions on monuments.†   (source)
  • Rachel looked at it dully, reading the inscription on the outside.†   (source)
  • He had completed inscribing the circle that same day.†   (source)
  • Outside, a young reporter and her cameraman were waiting on the sidewalk, ready to capture a provocative scene, but all they got were pictures of the workers exiting the district office carrying John-inscribed pennants and bumper stickers, oven mitts and disposable lighters.†   (source)
  • First, he had the laws inscribed (carved) on a huge slab of stone.†   (source)
  • I looked down at the inscription etched into the shiny, deep purple—stained concrete headstone.†   (source)
  • I inscribed it: You make me feel gold, flowing too.†   (source)
  • I can see the inscription on your tombstone already: "I saved a dollar, here I lie."†   (source)
  • Heturned it over and over again; his fingers studied its contours, his eyes strained to read the Latin inscription in the South Carolina seal.†   (source)
  • At night a tremendous mass meeting was held in the Auditorium, where a bronze tablet which had been inscribed to her memory was unveiled.†   (source)
  • VLADIMIR: (looking wildly about him, as though the date was inscribed in the landscape).†   (source)
  • Would then proceed at a KCUF record hop to look out again across the gleaming gym floor and there in one of the giant keyholes inscribed for basketball see, groping her vertical backstroke a little awkward opposite any boy heels might make her an inch taller than, a Sharon, Linda or Michele, seventeen and what is known as a hip one, whose velveted eyes ultimately, statistically would meet Mucho's and respond, and the thing would develop then groovy as it could when you found you couldn't get statutory rape really out of the back of your law-abiding head.†   (source)
  • Meteors broke fire above his head, and comets inscribed blazing arcs upon a vault of black glass.†   (source)
  • The ashtrays (Leslie later elaborated) were of the type everyone was familiar with: usually black, circular, and stamped with such inscriptions as STORK CLUB, "2 I", EL MOROCCO or, in more plebeian settings, BETTY'S PLACE and JOE'S BAR.†   (source)
  • It was my father who gave me the first dictionary of my own, a Webster's Collegiate, inscribed on the flyleaf with my full name (he always included Alice, my middle name, after his mother) and the date, 1925.†   (source)
  • Then he had lain by her side, and Kamala's face had been close to him, and under her eyes and next to the corners of her mouth he had, as clearly as never before, read a fearful inscription, an inscription of small lines, of slight grooves, an inscription reminiscent of autumn and old age, just as Siddhartha himself, who was only in his forties, had already noticed, here and there, gray hairs among his black ones.†   (source)
  • He had seen him, heard his words, and read the threatening inscription on the board.†   (source)
  • She spotted the inscription.†   (source)
  • One showed a bearded gentleman in a frock coat, holding up a bottle, and beneath his feet was the inscription, "I have been made regular by this marvelous discovery!"†   (source)
  • This was when they were all standing looking at the inscription.†   (source)
  • There, upon a low black hill, stood the House, its cornerstone bearing the inscription 2005 A.D. Mr. Bigelow, the architect, said, "It's completed.†   (source)
  • These Seven Commandments would now be inscribed on the wall; they would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live for ever after.   (source)
    inscribed = formally written
  • The inscription on the title-page ran: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM by Emmanuel Goldstein   (source)
    inscription = to write; or something written
  • But he lingered for some minutes more, talking to the old man, whose name, he discovered, was not Weeks-as one might have gathered from the inscription over the shop-front — but Charrington.   (source)
  • Jim's GOT to do his inscription and coat of arms.   (source)
    inscription = words written on something's surface
  • Making them pens was a distressid tough job, and so was the saw; and Jim allowed the inscription was going to be the toughest of all.   (source)
  • We got to have a rock for the coat of arms and mournful inscriptions, and we can kill two birds with that same rock.   (source)
  • Then pretty soon he says: "Come to think, the logs ain't a-going to do; they don't have log walls in a dungeon: we got to dig the inscriptions into a rock."   (source)
  • …on top of all the other work he had to do on pens, and inscriptions, and journals, and things, which made it more trouble and worry and responsibility to be a prisoner than anything he ever undertook, that Tom most lost all patience with him;   (source)
  • The shirt was sent in early, in a pie, and every time a rat bit Jim he would get up and write a little in his journal whilst the ink was fresh; the pens was made, the inscriptions and so on was all carved on the grindstone; the bed-leg was sawed in two, and we had et up the sawdust, and it give us a most amazing stomach-ache.   (source)
  • And we had to steal candles, and the sheet, and the shirt, and your dress, and spoons, and tin plates, and case-knives, and the warming-pan, and the grindstone, and flour, and just no end of things, and you can't think what work it was to make the saws, and pens, and inscriptions, and one thing or another, and you can't think HALF the fun it was.   (source)
  • I opened it to the first page and read the inscription Ben had made more than three years ago.†   (source)
  • I opened it to Ben's inscription and smiled.†   (source)
  • "I the undersigned, do agree to return the copy of the book Rhetoric and Logic with the inscription 'to Kvothe' to the bearer of this note in exchange for two silver pennies, provided he present this receipt before the date—" I looked up.†   (source)
  • "It's a masterly work of bronze," Mr. Tang continued, "but there's also the inscription itself.†   (source)
  • Sadie squinted at the hieroglyphic inscription.†   (source)
  • Still, the bold and immodest inscription over the entrance assured him they were in the right spot.†   (source)
  • It had an inscription in a language I didn't understand, but recognized from The Book of Moons.†   (source)
  • Underneath the inscription, which he has never before seen, is his birthday, and the year, 1982.†   (source)
  • Sam squinted at the inscription on the floor.†   (source)
  • All he could think of was the keystone, the inscription, and whether it would all lead to the Grail.†   (source)
  • It had an inscription he could not make out.†   (source)
  • While I'd slept, she'd deciphered the inscription on the Copper Key.†   (source)
  • Miss Harty brushed the debris away, and an inscription emerged: JOHN HERNDON MERCER (JOHNNY).†   (source)
  • Beneath the inscription, Mal'akh now saw something that stunned him.†   (source)
  • In the middle was an inscription carved in letters even older than Greek, a language of magic.†   (source)
  • Tell me-has the inscription on this clay envelope been translated?†   (source)
  • "West Ponente," Vittoria said, reading the inscription on the stone.†   (source)
  • The glowing words were materializing just beneath the engraved inscription on the capstone.†   (source)
  • Samirah edged a little closer to the inscription.†   (source)
  • Langdon pulled Peter's ring from his pocket and read the inscription.†   (source)
  • The capstone, I suspect, has an inscription as well, which tells you how to decipher the pyramid.†   (source)
  • Allegedly, this inscription, whatever it said, would bring order from this chaos.†   (source)
  • But regardless, you alone have the power to read that inscription.†   (source)
  • Sato ran her finger over the inscription.†   (source)
  • Carved over the door was a Portuguese inscription.†   (source)
  • Dawson moved aside, making room as Marilyn focused on the inscription.†   (source)
  • Over the doors was written an inscription in Latin that made her wish she had her notes with her.†   (source)
  • The inscription reminds us that Shadowhunters are the Angel's weapons.†   (source)
  • But what's this inscription, AOE—Area Of Effect?†   (source)
  • The face of the black granite did, however, contain an inscription.†   (source)
  • An inscription readinghe wanted the kingdom of god on earth.†   (source)
  • There was an inscription high on the lustrous tile of its front wall: "Roger Marsh.†   (source)
  • There is an inscription on the back—see?†   (source)
  • This one had an iron gate with the overhead inscription: ARBEIT MACHT FREI.†   (source)
  • That inscription should read, 'Died at the hands of a surgeon.†   (source)
  • The son pulled a book off the shelf and wrote an inscription in it: "To Betty.†   (source)
  • Her eyes glanced at the inscription on his chest.†   (source)
  • "She must have," said Jack, blinking at the inscription.†   (source)
  • "The inscription will explain his case to him," Hammurabi continued.†   (source)
  • Let him read the inscription, and understand my precious words.†   (source)
  • My father used to say you could tell a great weapon if it had either a name or an inscription.†   (source)
  • "Dagny Taggart" was still the inscription on the frosted glass panel of the door to her office.†   (source)
  • A return after long wanderingswas the inscription adorning the stone above Franz's grave.†   (source)
  • An inscription readinga return after long wanderings.†   (source)
  • "His oath?" she asked, startled, thinking of the inscription on the temple of Atlantis.†   (source)
  • The inscription reminds us that Shadowhunters are the Angel's weapons.†   (source)
  • The medallion was gold, stamped with a wolf's paw and the Latin inscription Beati Bellicosi.†   (source)
  • It bore the inscription: "Moreau & Vetchinkin.†   (source)
  • Then he marked them with their respective names so that all he had to do was read the inscription in order to identify them.†   (source)
  • This inscription appears to be a code of some sort, and considering your reputation, it seems obvious to me that you were brought here to decipher it.†   (source)
  • Millard searched through the gravel until he found a sharpened stone, and, using another stone as a hammer, he chipped an inscription of his own below the others.†   (source)
  • I needed to sprinkle these ashes, I said, and to see to the inscription on the monumental Chase family cube.†   (source)
  • And I guess most of his boasts were true: he was always bringing home some book in Latin or Greek with an inscription saying he had won it for some telling point he had scored.†   (source)
  • =========================== Over the exit of the Arrakeen landing field, crudely carved as though with a poor instrument, there was an inscription that Muad'Dib was to repeat many times.†   (source)
  • Why does it seem so significant to me that the wall is plain —no tapestry or hunting horns, no stage decoration —and that he took such care to inscribe his name and the year with such prominence, since he can hardly have known (or did he?) that 1654, the year he made the painting, would also be the year of his death?†   (source)
  • You have to inscribe it for me.†   (source)
  • Ascudgamln-fists of steel Astim Hefthyn-Sight Guard (inscription on a necklace given to Eragon) Az Ragni-The River Az Sweldn rak Anhuin-The Tears of Anhuin Azt jok jordn rast.†   (source)
  • I heard you say his name, and I read the inscription you put on his grave, but I must know for certain, Was that he?†   (source)
  • With the wool collar of her A-line coat turned up against the cold, she stared at the inscription on the simple markers.†   (source)
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