carven

Example Sentences

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The king sat by the central fireplace, hunched up on a carven stool by the table.

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Figures stood there at its head, carven with cunning in forms human and bestial, but all corrupt and loathsome.

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In it were no tables, but a bright fire was burning in a great hearth between the carven pillars upon either side.

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Pippin saw his carven face with its proud bones and skin like ivory, and the long curved nose between the dark deep eyes; and he was reminded not so much of Boromir as of Aragorn.

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Now the strange thing was that whereas the boy might burst into weeping at a chance rebuke, he stood these beatings under the bamboo without a sound, his face carven and pale as an image.

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