Engraved

Examples

• Somewhat later, the handle became pointed, and was engraved with bright, cut ornaments and a cartouch at the end in which were engraved the initials of the owner. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Briefly stated, the process of making halftones is as follows: The subject to be engraved is photographed through a halftone screen, so-called. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It must have been made from some manner of engraved block. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The extreme minuteness and delicacy of the electrotype process is strikingly exemplified in its application to the transference of engraved copper-plates. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Beside her was a mahogany stand bearing a cast bronze lamp with an engraved globe, over which a green paper shade had been balanced. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• These people at a later stage also scratched and engraved designs on ivory and bone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The crest and the name of Sir Percival Glyde were engraved inside it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He brought up a card, too, with the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Methought above the portico was engraved the Hic jacet of England. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Printing from letters engraved on blocks of wood is an ancient art, having had its origin in China many centuries before the Christian era. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A highly finished engraved copper-plate has a film of metal deposited over its whole surface, which, when detached, exhibits all the lines that are cut into the copper-plate in relief. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The picture has never been engraved. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• See it engraved on the plate of crosses for this volume, plate 14. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• In this, the relief blocks are replaced by engraved copper rolls which rotate continuously and in the course of their rotation automatically receive coloring matter on the engraved portion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Night after night he worked at it, until a great pile of engraved blocks was done. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Nay, it was made from an engraved block, just like this card, said the young lapidary. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It has the word Agnes engraved on the inside,' said the woman. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• This was impressed, as the others had been, on only one side of the page, and from engraved wooden blocks. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Has the picture been engraved, miss? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Hear him, concerning the church of Ara Coeli: In the roof of the church, directly above the high altar, is engraved, 'Regina Coeli laetare Alleluia. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The forty pictures in it were made by pressing engraved blocks of wood on paper, just like the St. Christopher, or this playing-card. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• When I carried them back, he took me into the Cathedral library, and showed me several books filled with these engraved pictures, and they were much finer than our St. Christopher. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• On every leaf, on every small division of the universe, (as on the hyacinth ai is engraved) was imprinted the talisman of my existence--SHE LIVES! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The uppers are cut by hand from the engraved sheets, while metal patterns are used on the plain stock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Those words are engraved upon my heart. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• One line only was afterwards engraved in its place: Anne Catherick, July 25th, 1850. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This way is shorter, Anna, than by drawing and painting each picture separately, because when the block is once engraved it can be used to mark any number of cards. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I also engraved several things on occasion; made the ink; I was warehouse-man, and, in short, quite a _factotum_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I'm sure I am, echoed Amy, poring over the engraved copy of the Madonna and Child, which her mother had given her in a pretty frame. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

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