There was even one labelled "Bulb of the Future?" It had no filament, but the word "Rhenium" was inscribed on a card beside it.
And everything in Moroni's fine and subtle brushwork – from the almost-sneer of the mouth to the dapper, head-in-air erectness of the figure – is borne out by the motto inscribed on the wall beside the duke.
The mud ringed a copper-green pool about as wide and as deep as a swimming pool, the "Prinzenbad" — Prince's Bath, according to a boulder beside it inscribed when German entrepreneurs ran beer halls and a sanitarium on the mountain in the early 20th century.
He mischievously juxtaposed his own blunt and intelligent features with those of his sturdy pug dog, Trump, and placed volumes of the great English writers William Shakespeare, John Milton, and Jonathan Swift beside a palette inscribed with the sinuous "line of beauty," his shorthand symbol for the variety, intricacy, and expressiveness of Nature.
We went on, downhill, to the village, and paused at the triple arch beside a milestone elegantly inscribed "9 miles to Bridgwater".
The inscriptions in Latin featured translations in Greek beside it, and were inscribed on many public edifices, such as the temple in Ankara dubbed the Monumentum Ancyranum, called the "queen of inscriptions" by historian Theodor Mommsen.
When Ryback began exploring Hitler's collection, he discovered that a copy of the writings of the Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz was nestled beside a French vegetarian cookbook inscribed to "Monsieur Hitler végétarien".
In August of 2012, members of the Sikh community of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, replaced shattered windows, removed stained carpets, and replastered damaged drywall, restoring their temple to its previous meticulous order — all but for a dime-size hole in a metal doorframe leading to the main prayer area, beside which they placed a small gold-colored plaque inscribed with the words "We Are One".
"The fact that I needed to look weak while playing Téa's march toward death actually worked in my favor, considering how drained I felt some mornings after a tough rehearsal the previous night," Ms. Lozano said in her ABC dressing room, sitting beside a bouquet of red balloons sent from a fan, inscribed with the words "Give Téa One Life to Live".
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" And yes, when Emma Lazarus wrote these words – later inscribed on the Statue of Liberty – by "storied pomp", she meant us Brits.
