34 examples of icon in sentences

His discourse powerfully affected the heathen monarch, who was burdened with the heavy sins of a tumultuous youth; and this was particularly the case when the monk pointed out to him on an icon, which represented the last judgment, the different lot of the just and of the wicked.

image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness; very image; effigy, facsimile. figure, figure head; puppet, doll, figurine, aglet^, manikin, lay- figure, model, mammet^, marionette, fantoccini^, waxwork, bust; statue, statuette. ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji [Jap.]; diagram, monogram.

Glory was his aim and he attained it; for his icon, by the hand of Caldecott, now lies among the treasures of the nation.)

"Icon" means image (cf. iconoclast); the word has lately become familiar through the religious use of icons by the Russians in the war with Japan.

One can understand this large panel being carried (as we know the similar one at S. Maria Novella was) in procession and worshipped, but it is nearer to the icon of the Russian peasant of today than to a Raphael.

In Icon animorum. 3207.

I suspect that the fatal delay in the publication of the 'Icon Basilike' is susceptible of no other satisfactory explanation.

Surely, there must have been an intelligible propriety in the terms, 'Logos', Word, 'Begotten before all creation',an adequate idea or 'icon', or the Evangelists and Apostolic penmen would not have adopted them.

Your refusal to lend your poetical sanction to my Icon, and your reasons to Evans, are most sensible.

The Icon was Pulham's etching of Lamb.

Seraphia was the name of the brave woman who thus dared to confront the enraged multitude; she was the wife of Sirach, one of the councillors belonging to the Temple, and was afterwards known by the name of Veronica, which name was given from the words vera icon (true portrait), to commemorate her brave conduct on this day.

Either the affirmative or the negative of the proposition that King Charles wrote the Icon Basilike is as true as that two sides of a triangle are greater than the third side.

Why, then, do Dr. Wordsworth and Mr. Hallam agree in thinking two sides of a triangle greater than the third side, and yet differ about the genuineness of the Icon Basilike?

" "My dear Mr. Stroganoff," I expostulated, "your czars believed in icons.

It is no coincidence perhaps that this series of essays is critical of some held up as icons of Goa's journalism over the past four decades.

From his days at The Navhind Times to owning Goa Today, Mascarenhas had become an icon in Goan journalism.

When the cliched few Goan icons were confined only to football players and its organisers.

And, if he's very rich, A cheap edition of the Icon Basilike, Is mostly all the wealth he dies possest of.

6 5. Icon.

Natica alba, n. Icon.

Hipponix listeri (n.) Icon.

The peasants of Talezh, Bershov, Doubechnia and Sholkovo presented me with four loaves, an icon and two silver salt-cellars.

The peasants gave me an icon with an inscription.

* He holds himself exactly as though he were an icon.

Some one saw Z., an unbeliever and blasphemer, secretly praying in front of the icon in the cathedral, and they all teased him.

34 examples of  icon  in sentences