A writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt.
1 The morose moon started up, a tragic hieroglyph in the passionless sky.
2 To her, the word was a hieroglyph , letters and shapes without meaning.
3 Before she could explain, Carter drew a simple hieroglyph of a bird.
4 Pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but dared not speak.
5 I waited for something to blow up, but the hieroglyph simply faded.
6 A sort of three-dimensional hieroglyph of an airplane made of paper.
7 In more than one of these reports the hieroglyph B.45 appeared.
8 The god was never a symbol or hieroglyph representing the sun.
9 And he extracted from the thievish scrawls a peculiarly thievish-looking hieroglyph .
10 Imhotep has a name for her illness, a hieroglyph that we cannot pronounce.
11 The whole butterfly seemed the symbol, the hieroglyph of gay and airy speed.
12 She went over it slowly, like one deciphering an ancient hieroglyph .
13 True variations are not found, the hieroglyph being perfectly alike in all the manuscripts.
14 She turned the spear in her hand to look at the single square hieroglyph .
15 Then, suddenly, at the sight of the hieroglyph , he remembered.
16 For him a picture is more or less a hieroglyph or symbol of story.
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