chiselled

Lithe, with abs chiselled from granite and blond in his hair, he looked like WWE wrestler Cody Rhodes.

The caption said crews "carefully chiselled" out the cornered kitty and that it was now "safe and sound".

The Frankenstein patchwork of his face has echoes of Alasdair Gray's chiselled artwork and he uses the same gentle accent and singsong voice as Gray himself.

On 26 November 1922, he had held up a candle to peer through a tiny breach chiselled in a doorway sealed for three millennia.

He then took up a teaching position at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, where he quietly chiselled away at his passion, the statistical properties of prime numbers.