carven

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

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

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

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

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.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien