1 They were entertained by Vida in the parlor of Mrs. Elisha Gurrey's boarding-house, with its steel engraving of Grant at Appomattox, its basket of stereoscopic views, and its mysterious stains on the gritty carpet.
2 In some instances, to the quick, observant eye, those linear marks, as in a veritable engraving, but afford the ground for far other delineations.
3 It was a daguerreotype, clear and soft as an engraving, representing Eva and her father sitting hand in hand.
4 Among the latter was a long engraving of a battle scene, wherein soldiers in three-cornered hats were brandishing huge drums and slender lances.
5 The sergeant turned it in his hand, held the hilt up to the sunlight to read the engraved inscription.
6 Ross Browne are pretty correct in contour; but they are wretchedly engraved.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and... 7 But these marks do not seem to be impressed upon the isinglass substance above mentioned, but seem to be seen through it, as if they were engraved upon the body itself.
8 Even his cuff-buttons were engraved with hieroglyphics, and he was more inscribed than an Egyptian obelisk.
9 He once gave her a ring with a sphinx engraved on the stone.
10 Of the four crystal glasses engraved with the count's monogram that stood before his plate, Pierre held out one at random and drank with enjoyment, gazing with ever-increasing amiability at the other guests.
11 At that moment Alexander turned his head and Rostov saw the beloved features that were so deeply engraved on his memory.
12 Pierre rose, rubbed his eyes, and seeing the pistol with an engraved stock which Gerasim had replaced on the writing table, he remembered where he was and what lay before him that very day.
13 On his right arm was a silver plate, which, instead of bearing, as usual, the cognizance or badge of the baron to whose family he belonged, had barely the word SHERWOOD engraved upon it.
14 'It has the word "Agnes" engraved on the inside,' said the woman.
15 After that she drew a gold ring, on which her name was engraved, off her finger, and put it upon one of his.