| To conjure power, a medieval alchemist would enclose himself in a magic circle filled with geometric pictograms symbolizing inner realities. |
| The thing westerners worry about before getting to Tokyo is that all the signs are pictograms. |
| Runic scripts are writing schemes which tend to fall in between pictograms and context-dependent constructs like alphabets. |
| The Aztecs produced painted books written in pictograms rather than in words derived from an alphabet. |
| In his hand he produced a worn scroll depicting several pictograms and archaic passages. |
| Egyptians, like Sumerians, must have quickly realized the limitations of writing with only pictograms. |
