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| Grammar : Noun |
Definition of graven image
- As in golden calf : noun materialistic goal
- As in idol : noun person greatly admired
- She faced Hendricks, who had stood there like a graven image, watching her.
- Extract from : « Priestess of the Flame » by Sewell Peaslee Wright
- "I ain't exactly a graven image, now that you mention it," he admitted.
- Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Darn him, like a graven image there, the only mute, immovable thing in that turmoil!
- Extract from : « The Million-Dollar Suitcase » by Alice MacGowan
- Louisa might as well have been a graven image for all the response she gave.
- Extract from : « Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- The Indian stared at him like a graven image, but vouchsafed no reply.
- Extract from : « A Mating in the Wilds » by Ottwell Binns
- Not a graven image, scarcely a picture, remained in any of them.
- Extract from : « The Golden Grasshopper » by W.H.G. Kingston
- Her voice was colorless, like the speech which might be expected from a graven image.
- Extract from : « The Secret Witness » by George Gibbs
- When they got up she said, How could you pray to that graven image?
- Extract from : « The Story of My Life, volumes 4-6 » by Augustus J. C. Hare
- Some one spoke of him afterwards as looking like a "graven image."
- Extract from : « The Passion for Life » by Joseph Hocking
- For the Commandement is, "Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any graven image."
- Extract from : « Leviathan » by Thomas Hobbes
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