Inscriptions
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Examples
- Enquiries were sent to the antiquarians of the Academy of Inscriptions in that matter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There is plenty of room for other inscriptions underneath. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Thirty-five of his inscriptions survive to this day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was completely covered with such inscriptions. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He was proud of this determination, and left inscriptions to record it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They are spoken of in the inscriptions as the dangerous Medes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were great builders, and left many monuments and inscriptions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Here are no aisles, no arches, no inscriptions, no banners. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- All the public inscriptions in the town were painted alike, in severe characters of black and white. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- My reign is not yet over, (these words were legible in one of these inscriptions); you live, and my power is complete. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- In the ninth century B.C. a people called the Medes, very closely related to the Persians to the east of them, appear in the Assyrian inscriptions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The inside of the great mosque is very showy with variegated marble walls and with windows and inscriptions of elaborate mosaic. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The inscriptions the sightseers scribbled upon the walls remain to this day, and many of them have been deciphered and published. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Every stone of its inner wall was covered by inscriptions which had been carved by prisoners--dates, names, complaints, and prayers. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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