hieroglyph

• The simplicity of a sketch, the comparative rapidity with which it is produced, the concentration of meaning demanded by its rigid economy of means, render it more symbolical, more like the hieroglyph of its maker's mind, than any finished work can be. —  The Life of Michelangelo Buonarotti
• The symbols upon it were Chiatze, part alphabet, part hieroglyph, and Talisman had told him what they said Oshikai Demon-bane - Lord of War Kneeling before it, Sieben scanned the symbols. —  David A
• Everywhere were echoes of that same eery symbolism in the door hieroglyph, and Newlin's folk-memories were oddly disturbed HE COULD not place the feeling. —  IF September, 1952
• He desired to learn if this island were indeed that mentioned in the mysterious Book of Skelos , whereon, nameless sages aver, strange monsters guard crypts filled with hieroglyph-carven gold. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
• The vulture hieroglyph was the uniliteral sign used for the glottal sound including words such as mother, prosperous, grandmother, and ruler. —  The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public

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