engrave

• As is well known, so great was the run upon the book that the plates were unequal to the duty, and "Phiz" had to re-engrave them several times--often duplicates on the one plate--naturally not copying them very closely. —  Pickwickian Manners and Customs
• He possesses the bust, in basalt, of a Mexican, which I employed M. Massard to engrave, and which bears great resemblance to the calautica of the heads of Isis I prefer in this way to copy from an author of unquestionable authority an important historical fact, rather than to search for less accessible sources of evidence on which I rest the theory, that what of this kind we have seen at the city of Mexico are but fragments from the wreck that befell the American civilization of antiquity, which had succumbed before the inroads of northern savages. —  Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited
• Of all the portraits here alluded to, the one we engrave is the only one at present destined for publication. —  George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings ; Philosophy
• After my experience to-day, I think I will engrave my name on my umbrella. —  Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough
• Here we stopped, and, like many others who had been there before us, attempted to engrave our names. —  The Life of Lord Byron

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