3042 examples of carve in sentences

Then what was he thus to carve?

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

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.

In serving, take out the fowl, and carve it neatly, placing the pieces in a tureen, and pouring over them the soup, which should be very thick of leeks (a purée of leeks the French would call it).

[Illustration] First run the knife along the centre of the side of the fish, namely, from d to b, down to the bone; then carve it in unbroken slices downwards from d to e, or upwards from d to c, as shown in the engraving.

So let us be pitiful, grateful that God's strong hand Has held our own, and the tale of a woman's despair And penitent sin, He stooped and wrote in the perishing sand; We carve the record in stone, weak, sinful souls that we are.

He carve her totem at the top of the pole, then his totem and those of the family are carved below.

Ted also enjoyed seeing old Kala-kash carve, for he was the finest carver among the Indians, and it was wonderful to see him cut strange figures out of bone, wood, horn, fish-bones, and anything his gnarled old fingers could get hold of, and he would carve grasshoppers, bears, minnows, whales, sea-gulls, babies, or idols.

Ted also enjoyed seeing old Kala-kash carve, for he was the finest carver among the Indians, and it was wonderful to see him cut strange figures out of bone, wood, horn, fish-bones, and anything his gnarled old fingers could get hold of, and he would carve grasshoppers, bears, minnows, whales, sea-gulls, babies, or idols.

He may comment, in a vein of agreeable irony, upon the profession, the manner of life, the look, dress, or even the name, of the witness he is examining: when he has raised a contemptuous opinion of him in the minds of the Court, he may proceed to draw answers from him capable of a ludicrous turn; and he may carve and garble these to his own liking.

Sofia heard the broken rustling of heavy respirations; she saw uncouth gesticulations carve the shadows; her nostrils were revolted by effluvia of unclean bodies, garments saturate with opium smoke and curious cookery, breaths sour with alcohol.

tallar, to carve.

He throws any where, but down his throat, whatever he means to drink; and mangles what he means to carve.

Sometimes he used to do nothing but carve for a week, and he would say, 'Dot, I do not believe drawing is the thing I want to do, after all.

He wants a tool that will cut a stick, carve a boat, peel an apple, dig out a wormin short, one that will do whatever his active mind wants done.

It was no wonder that he was down-hearted, for he was ambitious and longed to carve out a great career for himself, while his good parents were conservative and wished him to become independent as soon as possible.

As to our visionary sceptics and Utopian philosophers, they stood no chance with our lecturerhe did not "carve them as a dish fit for the Gods, but hewed them as a carcase fit for hounds."

Hubert noticed that the place at the head of the table was for him, and he sat down a little embarrassed, to carve a chicken.

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

GOTTSHALL, FRANKLIN H. You can whittle and carve, by Franklin H. Gottshall & Amanda Watkins Hellum.

You can whittle and carve.

GOTTSHALL, FRANKLIN H. You can whittle and carve, by Franklin H. Gottshall & Amanda Watkins Hellum.

You can whittle and carve.

Presently the Raja said that his kingdom was too small to give half of it to his son-in-law, so he proposed that they should go and conquer fresh territory, and carve out a kingdom for the caterpillar boy.

You need not draw on a water-bottle for nectar, or hope to carve marble columns from empty air; genius can't do that.

3042 examples of  carve  in sentences