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Meanings of graven image in English
Usage of graven image in English
1
Not a graven image, scarcely a picture, remained in any of them.
2
He sat out on the porch in the dark like a graven image.
3
Our driver sat like a graven image and we swept on in triumph.
4
At the corner stood Amos beside two bicycles, solid as a graven image.
5
The Indian stared at him like a graven image, but vouchsafed no reply.
6
She just sits there like a graven image, scared to death.
7
I controlled myself, and stood as though I, too, were a graven image.
8
Opposite him sat old Samuels, his head forward, motionless as a graven image.
9
But Iskender still sat on composedly, smiling into distance, like a graven image.
10
A graven image of her couldn't have been more like her.
11
I could eat a graven image this very minute, but am I complaining?
12
No one spoke, no one hindered me; every face was like a graven image.
13
For all the attention I paid him, I might have been a graven image.
14
Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, etc.
15
Father might as well have pleaded with a graven image.
16
My head was whirling, but a graven image might have envied me my impassivity.