English example sentences with "graven"

What is graven on a stone isn't written for no reason.

And forth they bring the broidered tapestry, / with purple dyed and wrought full cunningly. / The tables groan with silver; there are told / the deeds of prowess for the gazer's eye, / a long, long series, of their sires of old, / traced from the nation's birth, and graven in the gold.

Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth.

Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth below, or that is in the water under the earth.

You shall not make yourself a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth below, or that is in the water under the earth.

Some Protestants do not allow "graven images" of heavenly persons, unlike Roman Catholics, who use them to concentrate their spiritual energy.

The words and events of that evening must have been graven as if with a steel tool on Mr. Razumov’s brain since he was able to write his relation with such fullness and precision a good many months afterwards.