carved figure

Most arresting and ominous, however, is the ancient stone monolith that from certain faraway angles looks like the carved figure of a nun, and that might just be more than a landscape fixture visible from the volunteer’s door.

His carved figure of the revolutionary Cuban poet José Martí, body caked with mud, glass eyes gleaming, hand gripping a machete like a Diogenes lamp, has haunted me ever since.

The carved figure is wearing tunic-like clothing which ends above the knee.

A restored medieval shrine in St Albans Cathedral is to carry a memento of the Covid-19 pandemic which delayed its completion - a carved figure wearing a face mask.

Of all the tombstones we saw that Saturday afternoon, only one still includes the unique carved figure that once rested at the top of most of the stones.