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Example sentences for "long inscription"

  • Upon one of the largest of the sarcophagi, and which is one of those first met with in going from Souf, is a long inscription, but so mutilated as to be almost wholly illegible.

  • Over the gate is a long inscription, but it was illegible to my sight.

  • In one of them is a long inscription, but the rain had made it illegible.

  • Upon the wall of one of the largest houses in the village was a long inscription; but too high for me to read.

  • A long inscription, setting forth the descent and marriage of these two ladies, whose busts in relief ornament the sides.

  • Dona Brites lies on a plain tomb in front of which there is a long inscription.

  • Beneath the cornice on each of the longer sides is cut in Gothic letters a long inscription telling of Dom Pedro's life, and lower down and on all four sides there is in the middle a shield, now much damaged, with the Menezes arms.

  • This is commemorated by a long inscription still in existence at the capital.

  • This is also attested by a long inscription on stone, still in its place.

  • It bears a long inscription partly in Chinese and partly in Syriac composed by a foreign priest called Adam or in Chinese King-Tsing giving a long account of the doctrines and history of Nestorianism.

  • An Chou, the second of these princes, died in 480 and his fame survives because nine years after his death a temple to Maitreya was dedicated in his honour with a long inscription in Chinese.

  • A long inscription of Jayavarman in 145 stanzas has been preserved in the temple of Ta Prohm near Angkor.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    long absence; long after; long away; long continued; long corridor; long course; long distances; long enough; long journey; long knife; long life; long lines; long piece; long ranges; long space; long story; long stretch; long train; long visit; long while; longer extant; longer knew; suppress them; that question; turned toward; weighing from