273 collocations for carving

And painters and statuaries, too, used to pray to these graces, and ask them to put beautiful fancies into their minds, that they might be able to paint beautiful pictures, and carve beautiful statues.

He raised a monument of white marble over his father's tomb, and employed the most prominent artists of the time to carve the figures.

A third time he would carve a fowl, which he did very ill favoredly, because we did not know how indispensable it was for a barrister to do all those sort of things well.

Mrs. Kennicot related, in his presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expressed a wonder that the poet who had written Paradise Lost should write such poor Sonnets:' Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

Among the adventures of this period are an expedition across the Ilissus to some caves near Kharyati, in which the travellers were by accident nearly entombed; another to Pentelicus, where they tried to carve their names on the marble rock; and a third to the environs of the Piraeus in the evening light.

Said the Master, "One may hardly carve rotten wood, or use a trowel to the wall of a manure-yard!

While Pheidias wrought his marbles, the men up here carved walrus-ivory, and, in lieu of Homer, recited "The Crow's Last Flight" and "The Legend of the Northern Lights.

If I declined their offer and refused to let McMurtrie carve my face about, they had only to turn me out, and in a few hours I should probably be back in my cell with the cheerful prospect of chains, a flogging, and six months' semi-starvation in front of me.

Naturally keen, ready, business- like, daring, he had carved out his own way through life, and opened his oysterthe world, neither with sword nor pen, but with steam and cotton.

I might be a king over a proud people, carving a fair kingdom out of the wilderness, and ruling it justly in the fear of God.

How should a poet carve the funeral stone To tell thy story true?

This one's give me a hint how to carve out a future career, an' I'll write a story as'll make them girl edyturs set up an' take notice.

He carved some letters upon it; cutting away the bark of the beech and leaving the letters white.

He was an ingenious youngster; wrote wonderful copies, and carved the two initials given above with great skill on all available surfaces.

The engraving, showing the dotted line from 1 to 2, sufficiently indicates the direction which should be given to the knife in carving this dish.

The mystic formula or "mani" is imprinted on the pavement of the streets, it floats on flags from the temples, and the wealthy Buddhists maintain sculptor-missionaries, Old Mortalities of the water-lily, who, wandering to distant lands, carve the blessed words upon cliff and stone.

" "Now, before I carve the turkey, what if I ask the question all around what we feel most thankful for to-day?

Come thou straight forth, man, or I will carve thee as I would carve a sucking pig.

Having performed this painful duty, the surviving companions of these unfortunate lovers fixed a large wooden cross over the grave, on which they carved the inscription which Machin had composed to record their melancholy adventures; and added a request, that if any Christians should hereafter visit the spot, they might erect a church in the same place, and dedicate it to Christ.

Tooth carving manual.

On the other side of the town, I saw two fine monuments before the door, round temples with lofty cupolas, and carved stone lattice work in the window openings.

Linoleum block printing: carving the linoleum block, M-1; and A few points on the use of Speedball Linozip cutters, M-2.

There are several ways of carving this most familiar game bird.

I take my meals, therefore, without more trouble than a man who had to carve his joint, or chicken: though even that little I sometimes find most irksome.

They took away his pen, and in larger lines he carved this chair.

273 collocations for  carving