A graven image could not have been more stolid; one would have said that the uproar everywhere around was as the rippling of waters to him, and the Indians of less consequence than the dancing shafts of sunlight flickering amid the leaves when they are stirred by the morning breeze.

Such tipple would warm a graven image into speech, and my brother is inordinately curious.

A few years later Hugh of Lincoln found her shrine before the high altar decked with gold and silken hangings, and the saintly bishop had the last finery of Rosamond swept from the holy place, till nothing remained but a stone with the two words graven on it, "Tumba Rosamundae.

He stood by the doorway to greet his guestsa tall, dark man of about forty years, with brilliant eyes set near together under his broad brow, and firm lines graven around his fine, thin lips; the brow of a dreamer and the mouth of a soldier, a man of sensitive feeling but inflexible willone of those who, in whatever age they may live, are born for inward conflict and a life of quest.

At Baghistan, among the rich gardens watered by fountains from the rock, he looked up at the mountain thrusting its immense rugged brow out over the road, and saw the figure of King Darius trampling upon his fallen foes, and the proud list of his wars and conquests graven high upon the face of the eternal cliff.

Even against the Bonnie Lassie, whose sculptures you can just see in that little house near the corner"I waved an illustrative hand"he can quote Scripture, as to graven images.

Her face and her hands were withered, and deeply graven with the lines of the years that had bowed her head.

Here I saw one day a large disc of old brass, bossed in the middle, which may have been either a shield or part of an ancient cymbal, with concentric rings graven round it, from centre to circumference.

The widow Broadnax, too, was as busy as she ever was, sitting in her usual place in the chimney-corner, looking like some large, clumsily graven image in dark stone, and watching her half-sister's every movement without winking or turning her head.

There were new lines in his face which did not belong to youth, and which had not been graven by his fierce struggle with the Cold Plague.

Letters were graven thereon, so that those who found the maid might understand that she came of a good house.

" "Say, my page, what means that writing Graven on yon marble-stone?" "'Tis the youth and maiden plighting Love to one, and one alone.

[i. e., When Moses and the prophets called the Israelites, they often refused to hear:] they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burnt incense to graven images.

It stood in his memory not as a sequence of events but as a collection of disconnected static sayings; each saying blunt, permanent, inconsecutive like a graven inscription.

And all these things that had been so dramatic and forcible, all the vivid brutal things he had said, stood no longer graven inscriptions but in letters of accusing flame.

And even the scutcheon, clear-graven, shall tell That the art of a master has fashioned the Bell! Come income in,

In those days it must have been long before the returning vessel could sail up the James, this time bearing the graven tomb from Scotland.

Thou knowest Scripture commands us not to worship graven images.

The message of mercy came wrapp'd in disease, Destroying my comfort, and spoiling my ease; Enclosed in the foldings a jewel I found, And a circlet of diamonds encompass'd it round; I eagerly seiz'd it, and read on the seal A name newly graven, I cannot reveal; But, where it is present, no sorrow can dwell, Affliction is welcome, and all must be well.

Last night, while meditating on my state, with earnest prayer for the direct witness of the renewal of my nature, the assurance was given, 'I have graven thee on the palms of my hands.'

" Graven on the hand divine, Bid me on Thy strength lay hold, Look, believe, for Thou art mine; Jesus makes me humbly bold.

As you have doubtless noticed, though excellent people where the things not flatly of this world are concerned, my uncle is a graven image and my aunt is a deaf mute.

Yet now those master-pieces are not only equalled on canvas and in fresco, but reproduced by tens of thousands from graven sheets of copper, steel, and even blocks of wood,or, if modelled in marble or bronze, are remodelled by hundreds, and set up in countless households as the household gods.

Now they walk consciously over the ruins of old worlds; they can decipher the strange characters and read the strange history graven on these gigantic tablets.

We search the world for truth: we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful From graven stone and written scroll, From all old flower-fields of the soul;