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  • Beneath battleship gray skies, as wreaths were laid at stone-carved monuments, a brass band played the anthems, many of them unfamiliar, of some of the 35 countries caught up in the conflict.

    Bearing Witness to the War, Lest We Forget Lennox Morrison 2011

  • Roberto Schmidt/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A boy leaned on a stone-carved window at the Nizamuddin Dargah, a mausoleum of one of the world's most famous sufi saints in New Delhi on Sunday.

    Asia in Pictures 2011

  • No wonder my mother, with her stone-carved values, spoke nothing of him to this day.

    Sea Escape Lynne Griffin 2010

  • But if it is, we should find evidence of stone-carved writing, art and other cultural similarities to support this hypothesis.

    Maria Popova: Abstracting Atlantis: Scientists Find Evidence of Mayan Underwater City Maria Popova 2010

  • No wonder my mother, with her stone-carved values, spoke nothing of him to this day.

    Sea Escape Lynne Griffin 2010

  • Ms. Adams often stays in the guest house that Ms. Burstyn converted from a gardener's shed, where a window in the bathroom looks out to a patch of yard with stone-carved rabbits and frogs.

    The History of Ellen Burstyn 2010

  • But if it is, we should find evidence of stone-carved writing, art and other cultural similarities to support this hypothesis.

    Maria Popova: Abstracting Atlantis: Scientists Find Evidence of Mayan Underwater City 2010

  • The novelist spoke in the ancient Great Hall of what had once been a music school; stone-carved windows looked out onto tiered gardens, a full-sized jousting court, cedars of Lebanon on the skyline.

    Venom Joan Brady 2010

  • But if it is, we should find evidence of stone-carved writing, art and other cultural similarities to support this hypothesis.

    Maria Popova: Abstracting Atlantis: Scientists Find Evidence of Mayan Underwater City 2010

  • Scharf gestures to the seedy-looking chain hotel, its neighbors an ancient knishery and a Seventh-Day Adventist church whose aluminum cross is superimposed over a stone-carved Star of David.

    Excerpt: Lush Life by Richard Price 2008

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