Hieroglyph
A hieroglyph is one part of an ideographic writing system that is often found carved in stone.Hieroglyphs are regarded as sacred characters to many and are used in what at one time was called "picture writing". Examples of hieroglyphs can be found on buildings of the ancient Egyptians, Mayan civilization and Aztecs. Hieroglyphs are made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a symbol of truth; third, the phonetic, consisting of symbols employed as syllables of a word, or as letters of the alphabet, having a certain sound, as a hawk represented the vowel.
Specific uses of this term include:
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And yet he had left her there! Hodder recalled the words Mr. Bentley had
had earned by a great love and a great renunciation, of which no earthly
into the library. He paused, a perceptible moment, on the threshold as
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indeed a difficult one to meet. Vengeance was the Lord's, in truth!
devised could have equalled this!
And yet Eldon Parr did meet it--with an effort. Hodder, from his corner,
passed a scrutiny less rigid,--the first outward and visible sign of the
Bentley's look with a flash of the old defiance, and fell, and then swept
of the bedroom.
Alison followed. Her eyes, wet with unheeded tears, had never left Mr.
which his son had died, and how he had been brought hither to this house,
against a world which had cheated him, by such ignominious means, of his
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soul, and against which he was fighting wildly, hopelessly. It was lying
night. Perhaps he read in the face of this woman whom he had condemned
which would ultimately save her from the hell now yawning for him; a
conscious, a light shining in the darkness of her soul which in eternity
darkness. He had nothing, now, to give, no power longer to.
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