He threaded his way back to the ferry landing, found nobody at large there, and walked boldly on board the boat, for he knew she was tenantless except that there was a watchman, who always turned in and slept like
a graven image. He untied the skiff at the stern, slipped into it, and was soon rowing cautiously up- stream.
Tom Sawyer
"`There was
a graven image of Desire Painted with red blood on a ground of gold.'" murmured Gouvernail, under his breath.
Awakening and Selected Short Stories
He went in again, and put his right hand on the latch of the door to close it--but he did not close it: he was arrested, as he had been already since his loss, by the invisible wand of catalepsy, and stood like
a graven image, with wide but sightless eyes, holding open his door, powerless to resist either the good or the evil that might enter there.
Silas Marner
He saw him sign to his men that he had come upon that which he sought and he saw him pass out of sight toward the north, and still Korak sat like
a graven image, with a heart that bled in dumb misery.
Son Of Tarzan
Hertzler would be violating his religion by taking
a graven image of himself," the complaint argues.
Pa. Amish man challenges gun I.D. requirement
In Deuteronomy 4:16 the Almighty Himself gives the warning: "Beware lest you act corruptly by making
a graven image for yourselves, in the form of any figure..."
Letter: Straight to the point
So why would God be sore about
a graven image of his one true Self?
Idol curiosity: the problem with the golden calf isn't so much the calf. It's just that we might forget that God can be a mother hen, too
"How strange it is to create
a graven image out of a document that says we are not supposed to have any graven images."
Quotable & notable
In the Ten Commandments, Exodus 20:4 says "You shall not make for yourself
a graven image." Lutherans do not even mention this verse when we list the commandments.
Scripture as a norm of moral deliberation and its application to homosexuality
The second commandment dictates, "You shall not make for yourself
a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth." It also prohibits bowing down to any such images or serving them.
Americans don't really believe in the Ten Commandments
The irony here, notes Mitchell, is that the zealots of Zion have made the land itself an idol -- not
a graven image, but a substitute nonetheless.
THE LANDSCAPE OF PALESTINE: EQUIVOCAL POETRY
Alexandra Ansanelli's Bride has the pathos of a child innocent and the unearthly stillness of
a graven image. Dressed in white, she is the only fully realized character of the ballet, although the Coda after the third tableau, "Lamentation of Mothers," allows Riolama Lorenzo and Monique Meunier to infuse their grief with an individualizing passion.
Les Noces