Sentence examples for as engraved from inspiring English sources

The war on drugs seemed as engraved into the political landscape as Mount Rushmore.

The book's narrative force is so steady and unerring that it reads as though it was not so much written as engraved in stone.

Most jewelers are willing to design or customize a ring for you by adding special elements, such as engraved messages or unique, significant decorations.

For all its outmoded technology, letterpress stationery is still as costly as engraved stationery.

— The history of the Bob Hope Classic is not so much written as engraved, and time has rendered even larger the outsized characters who have peopled it.

Because the photos are so vivid and the stock on which they are printed is as heavy as engraved notecards from Tiffany & Company, you cannot help staring at them.

Commodity, firmness and delight: those are the three ideals of virtuous architecture espoused by Vitruvius more than 2,000 years ago-as engraved on the Pritzker Prize, in Henry Wotton's 1624 translation.

Bewick's biographer, Jenny Uglow, writes that Bewick sometimes used his fingerprint as a form of signature, (accompanied by the words "Thomas Bewick his mark"), as well as engraving it in one of his tail-pieces as if it had clouded the tiny image of a rustic scene with a cottage by mistake.

The resultant caricature of Hanna was given props such as moneybags and laborer's skulls to rest his feet upon, as well as cufflinks engraved with the dollar sign to wear with his plaid businessman's suits.

Jefferson tried vainly to hire as die engraver a Swiss, Jean Pierre Droz, who nevertheless furnished dies, hubs, and presses.

In 1885 Rowland finished constructing a machine capable of engraving as many as 20,000 lines to the inch for diffraction gratings.