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graven image

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graven image
Chiefly Bible a carved image used as an idol


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`There was a graven image of Desire Painted with red blood on a ground of gold.
He threaded his way back to the ferry landing, found nobody at large there, and walked boldly on board the boat, for he knew she was tenantless except that there was a watchman, who always turned in and slept like a graven image.
He saw him sign to his men that he had come upon that which he sought and he saw him pass out of sight toward the north, and still Korak sat like a graven image, with a heart that bled in dumb misery.
 
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