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graven image

noun

graven image

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

She sat in her chair quite motionless, but her face had become like the face of some graven image.

And poor Hannah, the maid, white aproned and capped, would stand behind Aunt Harriet like a miserable conscious graven image.

Her voice was colorless, like the speech which might be expected from a graven image.

Nance's gaze shifted to Molly, who might have been turned into a graven image, so still was she sitting.

The photographer lit one cigarette on the end of another, but otherwise appeared as indifferent as a graven image.

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