3232 examples of carving in sentences

Miss Kathleen Carey Reading & Elocution 2 P.M. Miss Julia Carey Dancing, Embroidery 2-30 P.M. Mrs. Peter Carey Vocal Music, Part Singing 3 P.M. Miss Nancy Carey Composition 4 P.M. Mr. Gilbert Carey Wood carving, Jig Sawing, Manual Training from 4 to 5 Fridays only.

This hermit it seems was celebrated through the whole neighbourhood, for his ingenuity in the carving of tobacco-stoppers, and a variety of other accomplishments.

Sculpture N. sculpture, insculpture^; carving &c v.; statuary.

Koogah lifted his grizzled head from his bone-carving and followed the path of her eyes.

The men were busy fashioning spears and carving on ivory, while the women scraped the fat from the hides of the hair seal and made them pliable or sewed muclucs with threads of sinew.

An indistinct muttering, with a look at the carving-knife in reply, teaches that daring person how ill he has chosen a market for his deference.

His carving shows he had great skill, was observant, and had true artistic feeling.

In addition to the pictures, the stateliness and beauty of the rooms were enhanced by rich furniture, carving, gilding, and all the subsidiary arts which our grandfathers loved to add to high merit in design or colouring.

And long after, Sycion for painting, carving, statuary, music, and philosophy, was preferred before all the cities in Greece.

Inferior only to the Vatican, it equals in length, and in breadth surpasses, the cathedral of Florence and St. Paul's; in the interior elevation it yields to both; in exterior it exceeds both; in fretwork, carving, and statues, it goes beyond all churches in the world, St. Peter's itself not excepted.

He had a great many workmen in his service at this period, and employed celebrated masters in their crafts, as Tasso and Carota for wood-carving, Battista del Cinque and Ciapino for carpentry, upon the various fittings of the library.

"Well, if the treasure bequeathed you by Pope Julius, in order that you might deposit his ashes in an urn of your own carving, was not enough to make you keep your plighted word, what can I expect from you?

* * CARVING AND GILDING.

These fields furnish many sorts of bricks, which are called rubbers, and which are employed (as malm stocks also are) for arches of the more elaborate sort, where each brick is cut to its shape and rubbed true, and for mouldings, and even sometimes for carving.

Among other peculiarities of brickwork are the facilities for introducing different colors and different textures of surface which it presents, the ease with which openings and arches can be formed in it, the possibility of executing ornament and even carving, and the ease with which brickwork will combine with other building materials.

Some of those examples also show the introduction of cast ornaments, and others the employment of carving as means of enriching the surface of brick walls with excellent effect.

If carving a well-written piece is his fault, then using strong language is his forte.

Then all this time, too, was he busy carving with his knife, out of the hardest wood he could find, a stock of letters, with which, when an occasion offered, he meant to make trial of imprinting whole sentences with ink.

It was weather-worn and lichened, but the carving was still legible.

The streets of Chester are exceedingly picturesque, Old Bridge Street and Watergate Street being perhaps two of the best examples, abounding as they do in mediaeval timber work and oak carving.

The west front, with the Bishop's Palace on its left, is perhaps the best feature of the exterior; while the Bishop's Throne, in the cathedral, is a wonderfully early piece of carving, ornamented with figures of the kings of Mercia.

The rooms contain much oak panelling and carving.

" He was rushing out again with a carving-knife in his hand, when he came face to face with his grandmother and Aunt Allison.

The red paint on his face made him look as if he had been in a fight with the carving-knife he carried, and had had the skin peeled off his face in patches.

The torrents, which scooped out the intersecting levels, amused their monstrous leisure with carving the points and abutments of the mesa into fantastic forms, so that the traveller sees towers, minarets, and spires loftier than the pinnacles of cathedrals.

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