For those of you looking confused and drug-addled, the word ikon is Greek, and means ‘image.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Thief] Reference
In the corner a light was burning before a small ikon. From Wordnik.com. [Crime and Punishment] Reference
“Surely it wasn't you lighted the lamp under the ikon?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Possessed] Reference
His torpid eyes, sunk in fat, were fixed upon the ikon stand. From Wordnik.com. [The Schoolmistress and other stories] Reference
Grushenka stood up and crossed herself devoutly before the ikon. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
There was not a single ikon to be seen on the wall — a bad sign!. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero of Our Time] Reference
I remember two things like these too, a silver one and a little ikon. From Wordnik.com. [Crime and Punishment] Reference
Vinald packed the blue and white dishes, an ikon, a gleaming white bowl. From Wordnik.com. [The Speaker Of Mandarin]
And so he was quite close to the little table on which the ikon was lying. From Wordnik.com. [A Raw Youth] Reference
The fact is she was pawning the ikon (she had brought herself to pawn it!). From Wordnik.com. [A Gentle Spirit] Reference
I changed with Lizaveta: she gave me her cross and I gave her my little ikon. From Wordnik.com. [Crime and Punishment] Reference
"The Book of Dead Names" (IE ikon = book, Necro = die or dead, and Nom = name). From Wordnik.com. [Frequently Asked Questions about the Work on the Nrcromonicon Version 1.2 by Kendrick Kerwin Chua] Reference
Around the chest, ikon panels illustrated a battle between white and black angels. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
She then bent her head reverently, before the ikon in the corner, and left the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Idiot] Reference
And that figure that crouched, dumbly, on the floor, beneath the protective ikon?. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
Then the ikon and the crucifix began to wobble this way and that way, and fell down, too. From Wordnik.com. [In Those Days The Story of an Old Man] Reference
Only a scanty modicum of daylight entered to war with the trembling rays of the ikon lamp. From Wordnik.com. [Poor Folk] Reference
It was a tiny silver ikon on a cord, such as is sometimes worn next the skin with a cross. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
Mother looked a long while at the ikon, pondering something, then she began crying, and said. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife] Reference
I could see the ikon was precious to her; she was pawning it whole, not taking it out of the setting. From Wordnik.com. [A Gentle Spirit] Reference
Sitting there in the corner, beneath the green leaves, she looked at once like a flower, and like an ikon. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Afraid] Reference
I'm doing them a favor to give them twenty rubles for some ikon that's been gathering dust for fifty years. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
Avdotya went up to the lamp before the ikon, began trimming it and accidentally put it out; she went back and lay down. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn] Reference
“Let the ikon alone, let it alone, Andrey Petrovitch, let it alone, put it down!” cried Tatyana Pavlovna, jumping up. From Wordnik.com. [A Raw Youth] Reference
When Tatyana Pavlovna had cried out “Let the ikon alone,” she had snatched it out of his hands and was holding it in hers. From Wordnik.com. [A Raw Youth] Reference
After crossing himself sedately before the ikon, he greeted his father and gave him ten silver roubles and ten half-roubles; to. From Wordnik.com. [The Witch, and other stories] Reference
And the old father and Granny and Kiryak — all stretched out their hands to the ikon, looked eagerly at it and said, weeping. From Wordnik.com. [The Witch, and other stories] Reference
The image is an ikon of sorts, awe-inspiring and gorgeously presented; the shine provides a real aura to them, a religious-like dignity. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Maxwell Apter: RFK for Twentysomethings] Reference
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