" "In the 'Book of the Odes,'" Tsz-kung went on to say, "we read of one Polished, as by the knife and file, The graving-tool, the smoothing-stone.

Again he got up and began running harder than ever after the flying mocking Mirage, and every time he stopped he fancied that he could see the figure again, sometimes like a pale blue shadow on the brightness; sometimes shining with its own excessive light, and sometimes only seen in outline, like a figure graved on glass, and always vanishing when looked at steadily.

And in conclusion show me in the Bible, The old Family-Bible, with the pictures in it, The 'graving of the Witch raising up Samuel, Which so possest my fancy, being a child, That nightly in my dreams an old Hag came And sat upon my pillow.

When Cerberus was headlong drawn from hell, He voided a black poison from his mouth, Call'd Aconitum, whereof ink was made: That ink, with reeds first laid on dried barks, Serv'd me awhile to make rude works withal, Till Hermes, secretary to the gods, Or Hermes Trismegistus, as some will, Weary with graving in blind characters And figures of familiar beasts and plants, Invented letters to write lies withal.

My son John at Oxford, now that his elder brother has gone to Tiverton, takes care of the remainder of the impression at London, and I have an ingenious artist here with me in my house at Epworth who is graving and working off the remaining maps and figures for me; so that I hope, if the printer does not hinder me, I shall have the whole ready by next spring, and, by God's leave, I shall be in London myself to deliver the books perfect.

"Has" is, in fact, part of the word "Hasn-us-Sabah," and the mere circumstance that some of it has been obliterated, while the figure of the mystic animal remains intact, shows that it was executed by one of a nation less skilled in the art of graving in precious stones than the Persians,by a rude, mediaeval Englishman, in short,the modern revival of the art owing its origin, of course, to the Medici of a later age.

And of this Englishmanwho either graved the stone himself, or got some one else to do it for himdo we know nothing?

Coming to anchor here, the general sent Coello on shore with an armed escort, to examine the country, and to see if there were any convenient place for new-graving their ships bottoms, as they had been long at sea and had a long run before them.

The plum-stones are graved with hieroglyphics, and counts are curiously made in a way that often defies computation by white men.

All were hungry and happy, all better in mind and body,illustrating the wise providence of the instinct that whispers to the over-wrought artisan and bids him go sometimes forth on a summer's day to the woods and waters,a move which the marine character of the subject impels me to speak of nautically, but reverently, as taking himself and family into the graving-dock of Nature, for the necessary repairs.

Buy there knives and gloves, especially white kid-skin; and the cuts of all the colleges graved by Loggins.

Mantegna seems to be graving steel or cutting into marble.

the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn:' THE EPITAPH. 30 Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth, A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.

"Though I write books, it will be read Upon the leaves of none; And afterward, when I am dead, Will ne'er be graved, for sight or tread, Across my funeral stone.

She even managed his graving tools with a good deal of accuracy, copying designs which he set her, until he wondered what his father would have thought of so apt an apprentice.

His chief trial was in the extreme hardness of the stone, which rapidly wore out his graving tools.

But if you do not worship graven images, it is only because you are mentally and morally quite incapable of graving them.

And in conclusion show me in the Bible, The old Family-Bible with the pictures in it, The 'graving of the Witch raising up Samuel, Which so possest my fancy, being a child, That nightly in my dreams an old Hag came And sat upon my pillow.

Who but God could have graven Michael Angelo; who came so near to graving the Mother of God?

Grave, graved, graving, graved or graven.

As if there was more divinity in one end of the stick than in the other; or, as if he could be graved and painted omnipotent, or the nails and the hammer could give it an apotheosis!

But when they perceived our men hard at work on the ship's bottom and side, washing, graving, and stopping her, it filled them all with such surprise, that they stood gazing as though they were confounded.

It has docks, and a graving dock, and is a port of call for vessels of all nations, with a thriving commerce.

The word used for mark in this prophecy is [Greek: charagma] (charagma), and is defined to mean, "a graving, sculpture, a mark cut in or stamped."

I had a good opportunity to observe the constant, dutiful, self-denying Yankee girl,girl no longer, now that twenty years of unrewarded patience had lined her face with unmistakable graving.