carven
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Yellow-garmented Buddhist priests chanted prayers, thumbed beads, whirred carven prayer wheels.
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In his curiously carven and vivid luggage were layers of sumptuous fabrics, great coils and shining lumps of jewelry.
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But Justice, a carven figure in a twisted courtroom, is relentless.
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Most noticeable evidence: a change in manikins from a shiny waxwork sisterhood with open-eyed little smiles to papier-m�ch�, wire mesh or carven effigies of the dangling, mask-faced glamor girl.
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Then he bought a wide and deep carven bed, big enough for a small room in itself, and he bought flowered curtains to hang about it.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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