Citations:glyptic

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English citations of glyptic

  • 1973 — ... his eyes rolled back into his head reading old, glyptic old graffiti on his own sockets. ... — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
  • 1973 — ... patterns thick with meaning, Burma-Shave signs of the toilet world, icky and sticky, cryptic and glyptic, these shapes loom and pass smoothly as he continues on down the long cloudy waste line ... — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
  • 1899, William George Aston, A History of Japanese Literature, page 18:
    It was not until many centuries later that education reached the common people. There were also teachers (mostly Coreans) of painting, medicine, and the glyptic arts.