But I'm sure Swiss novelist Bernard Comment started off with a claim that for him writing is a "stubborn regaining of the past", an attempt "to engrave time somewhere", despite its "relentless flow" partly because he wrote that bit down, or engraved it, if you prefer, right here.
Engraved on a door leading down to the fountain plumbing were the names of the sculptor, Gabriel Koren, and the designer of the fountain and site, Algernon Miller.
I had Craftsman engraved in my hand, upside down from the wrench.
Anti-Chrysler sentiment which had quieted down, flared up again when engraved invitations were sent out for 2 formal inaugural dinners.
Nadir's spectacular fall embarrassed John Major's government after it emerged that a Conservative minister, Michael Mates, had given Nadir a watch engraved: "Don't let the buggers get you down".
Winner's names will be engraved onto the trophy and it will be handed down from winner to winner over the coming years and, hopefully, decades.
Or at least the words engraved on his tomb are his: I cannot be pinned down here and now, because I live as well with the dead as with the unborn.
Though much of the exhibit was taken down early, a part that remained on display included engraved memorial plaques on the balcony walls and an audio reading of the Rev. James Wright's address to the 1834 Anti-Slavery Society.
Everybody chipped in for a few cases of beer, they had an informal party in Cincinnati, and then went down to a local trophy store and had the thing engraved.
Let us, then (he liked that construction), not wallow in worship of a statue looking gravely down on multitudes from a marble monument engraved with famous lines.
