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carven

[kahr-vuhn] / ˈkɑr vən /


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Yellow-garmented Buddhist priests chanted prayers, thumbed beads, whirred carven prayer wheels.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Justice, a carven figure in a twisted courtroom, is relentless.

From Time Magazine Archive

In his curiously carven and vivid luggage were layers of sumptuous fabrics, great coils and shining lumps of jewelry.

From Time Magazine Archive

In their ruddy jackets of leather, the twelve members appeared before their stately lord where he sat in a carven chair in his long red room.

From Time Magazine Archive

The eyes were hollow and the carven beard was broken, but about the high stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien




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