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How to use hieroglyph in a sentence

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Second, a hieroglyph might represent or imply another word suggested by the picture.
The hieroglyph for the west stands behind a seated figure of Inherkhau who faces a huge ka-symbol.
He argued that the use of V for five is due to the fact that it is a kind of hieroglyph representing the open hand with its five fingers.
Here, the mirror is a hieroglyph for truth and confronts us with realities we might prefer not to see.
Sometimes it may take you a few seconds to process the visual pun in the illustration, as if it were a hieroglyph to be deciphered.
The hieroglyph for that word stands between them, with the sun above it and an ankh-sign hanging from the center.
Originally, as a hieroglyph, the character is based on the action of opening two doors of a gate.
The scandal lies also in the fact that the transgression is visible, appearing like a strange hieroglyph on her face that others contemplate with fear and trepidation.
There is very little paint preserved, but each hieroglyph is a fully formed work of art, a tiny masterpiece cut in finest limestone.
The Japanese calligraphy is not only the beauty, but also the sense more complex frequently, than value of written by brush hieroglyph.
The sign is possibly adapted from an Egyptian hieroglyph for a staff sling, which may have been the meaning of the name gimel.
Many of these beliefs were recorded in hieroglyph inscriptions, papyrus scrolls and tomb paintings.
A mysterious hieroglyph led her to an ancient temple filled with rare...ial gift as you traipse through 60 lush levels in this brilliant match-3 dazzler.
East inhabitants trust that the hieroglyph has also sacral value because the letter in the East is considered as the epistle of the Heavens that's why the calligraphical sign bears the power charge in it.
Night after night, he had carefully hollowed out the pink granite inside a rectangular hieroglyph so he could slip the manuscript into the space he had made.
First, a hieroglyph could be used in an almost purely pictorial way.
The hieroglyph for his name features a twist of flax within a pair of raised arms, however, it also vaguely resembles a pair of entwined snakes within someone's arms.
As a hieroglyph, the character was based on the shape of the needle used for tattooing and the various meanings of the character today are derivations from this.
Note that even the snake hieroglyph in the second column of text above the figure has knives thrust into its twisted coils so that it is rendered harmless.
The surprising detail in the fresco is that, precisely, the Egyptian name Amenophis is also written in hieroglyph reversely, from left to right, instead of from right to left like the rest of the text.
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Examples from Classical Literature
All in me and out of me is only the hieroglyph of a power which is like to me.
It is printed with a sort of movable type, and each character is a pictograph or hieroglyph.
The god was never a symbol or hieroglyph representing the sun.
Knows he to interpret the hieroglyph in which the solution is concealed?
In more than one of these reports the hieroglyph B.45 appeared.
For him a picture is more or less a hieroglyph or symbol of story.
Pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but dared not speak.
The youth shrugged and scrawled an hieroglyph after the name.
His memorandum, indeed, was as cryptic as an Egyptian hieroglyph.
The hieroglyph deserts the cathedral, and betakes itself to blazoning the donjon keep, in order to lend prestige to feudalism.
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