carven
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Yellow-garmented Buddhist priests chanted prayers, thumbed beads, whirred carven prayer wheels.
From Time Magazine Archive
Behind the eyes, under the suave casque of carven hair are, beyond doubt, the thoughts of the Marchioness of Cholmondeley.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Justice, a carven figure in a twisted courtroom, is relentless.
From Time Magazine Archive
No carven motto is more obvious than that above the Supreme Court bench: "Eyes and ears are poor witnesses when the soul is barbarous."
From Time Magazine Archive
Through the white carven carpet that had been High Street pushed four oxen, buried up to their middles, dragging behind them a heavy plow.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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