What is "pictograph"

Usage examples of "pictograph".

Kurald Emurlahn played ceaselessly within the tree-ringed circle, rippling half-shapes dancing along the pictographs, the sorcerous emanations awakened by the propitiations that had accompanied the arrival of dusk.

Washington Monument was pictured because without an unmistakable pictograph, the warriors of the Chairborne Brigade would not only be ignorant of what they were doing, they would otherwise not know where they were doing it.

Inside the plastic cover was the pictograph of a horse with a rider holding a spear and a drum, with the title and the Wicker Men spelled out in runelike letters.

A third of the console was a charred wreck, but clear pictographs gave the operating sequence, and he slammed down levers for a crash rise.

Beta had pictographs of androids with a key to read off a population level Gamma was canceled throughout its length by a line of red asterisks.

Arcane hieroglyphs had been carved into their faces, the pictographs weathered and faint.

Of course the pictographs on the Temple at Canalopsis show one tower between what appeared to be two cities.

In the dry sand of the arroyo floor old bones and broken shapes of painted pot­tery and graven on the rocks above them pictographs of horse and cougar and turtle and the mounted Spaniards helmeted and bucklered and contemptuous of stone and silence and time itself.

It looked like nothing he had seen before, and he was an expert on all types of alphabetic writing, ideographs, and pictographs.

Like I tell the dudes, pictographs were put on the rock with paint, but petroglyphs were chiseled out of the black desert varnish to expose the tan base rock underneath.

The room was white and featurelessly austere, with only pictographs representing the star system from which each council member had once departed, harried along by the Cylon war machine.

Equally suspicious is the appearance of several other, apparently independently designed, writing systems in Iran, Crete, and Turkey (so-called proto-Elamite writing, Cretan pictographs, and Hieroglyphic Hittite, respectively), after the rise of Sumerian and Egyptian writing.

Landreau was clearly impressed by the skill required, for each pictograph was complex and beautiful.

There was carving in the passage, rune letterings and pictographs, in linear borders Before the bit of flaring moss turned to a million red pin points the Forkbeard took one of the torches and thrust it to the moss.

Only some logographs and pictographs that are for the most part unreadable.