Sentence examples for which was engraved from inspiring English sources

The court threw out Chu Boon's defence plea and he was convicted on grounds that he had "under his control, the tombstone of his brother, Tan Chay Wa, on which was engraved in Chinese characters an inscription which tended to advocate acts prejudicial to the security of Singapore".

We wove between the plants to the back wall, which was engraved with names.

It was a photograph of Fawcett's gold signet ring, which was engraved with the family motto, "Nec Aspera Terrent" — essentially, "Difficulties Be Damned".

The dying soldier kept telling them, "Give me Florence Fleming," his name for his rifle, which was engraved on it with silver lettering.

A man at the right handed us his card, which was engraved in gold and had an engraved white-on-white airplane on it.

Then Davey took her first shot of the day: the gravestone of Charles Dickens's son, Alfred Tennyson Dickens, which was engraved with a cross pattée.

Both used power in the service of higher ideas, which are engraved nearby on the walls.

To take another card, the player presses a push piece at 8 o'clock, which is engraved with the word "player".

Wood carvings included rectangular shields, which were engraved and painted, and small-featured hemispheric or oval masks.

The longest and most important inscription of the Samnite dialect is the small bronze Tabula Agnonensis, which is engraved in full Oscan alphabet.

And a passage from a Washington letter, Mr. Lengel goes on, has been "cleverly modified" and turned into a prayer, which is engraved in St . Pauls Chapel in New York.