Sentence examples for were inscribed and from inspiring English sources

Only a small number of the burial boxes were inscribed, and they usually belonged to prominent people.

So these letters were inscribed and then bronze letters were attached to them so that the inscription would gleam in the sunshine, and so that you could see it from considerable distance.

But Eleanor Roosevelt and her fellow-drafters recognised that once the words were inscribed and subscribed, they would serve as an encouragement and a reproach, the goal for those (the activists again) who sought the realisation of those rights, a reproach to those governments who did nothing beyond voting in favour.

These colonial archives were both transparencies on which power relations were inscribed and intricate technologies of rule in themselves (20).

The contrast between the worn interiors of Fontainhas, walls on which entire lives are inscribed, and the whitewashed surfaces of the anonymous new apartments is almost shocking.

In the early 2000s there was already an interactive video game whose premise was that an evil woman has torn out the pages of the book in which human history is inscribed and substituted false information for them.

One of them is inscribed "9 01" and the other "9 03," marking the minute before the bomb went off on the morning of April 19 , 1995 and the minute after.

The artist Ralph Fasanella was also a family friend; a limited-edition print of his painting "Bread and Roses Lawrencece, 1912" is inscribed "To Marcia and Francesco".

At 190 Third Avenue is a remarkable building, with elaborate white stone work on its facade, that is inscribed "Scheffel Hall" and "Allaire's".

It is now to go on display at the National Trust property The Vyne in Hampshire where the ring, which is inscribed in Latin and inset with an image of the goddess Venus, lay forgotten in the library for many years.

The designs on the reverse faces are different: Coin A shows Aeternitas (or perhaps Urania) holding a globe in her right hand, with palla billowing out around her head, and is inscribed ΛETER-NITΛS; Coin B shows Vesta, holding the palladium in her right hand, sceptre in left, and is inscribed VES-TΛ.