1 The sergeant turned it in his hand, held the hilt up to the sunlight to read the engraved inscription.
2 Ross Browne are pretty correct in contour; but they are wretchedly engraved.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and... 3 But these marks do not seem to be impressed upon the isinglass substance above mentioned, but seem to be seen through it, as if they were engraved upon the body itself.
4 Even his cuff-buttons were engraved with hieroglyphics, and he was more inscribed than an Egyptian obelisk.
5 He once gave her a ring with a sphinx engraved on the stone.
6 Of the four crystal glasses engraved with the count's monogram that stood before his plate, Pierre held out one at random and drank with enjoyment, gazing with ever-increasing amiability at the other guests.
7 At that moment Alexander turned his head and Rostov saw the beloved features that were so deeply engraved on his memory.
8 Pierre rose, rubbed his eyes, and seeing the pistol with an engraved stock which Gerasim had replaced on the writing table, he remembered where he was and what lay before him that very day.
9 On his right arm was a silver plate, which, instead of bearing, as usual, the cognizance or badge of the baron to whose family he belonged, had barely the word SHERWOOD engraved upon it.
10 'It has the word "Agnes" engraved on the inside,' said the woman.
11 After that she drew a gold ring, on which her name was engraved, off her finger, and put it upon one of his.
12 "I'm sure I am," echoed Amy, poring over the engraved copy of the Madonna and Child, which her mother had given her in a pretty frame.
13 Thus she will be a living sermon against sin, until the ignominious letter be engraved upon her tombstone.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In III. THE RECOGNITION 14 Buckingham tried to smile a last time; but death checked his thought, which remained engraved on his brow like a last kiss of love.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 59 WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 23, 1628 15 I have been myself to the best engraver of the Palais Royal, who did the plate in my presence.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 42. Monsieur Bertuccio.