| 单词 | carven |
| 例句 | The eyes were flat and the mouth with its small up-curve at the corners was carven. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Now the strange thing was that whereas the boy might burst into weeping at a chance rebuke, he stood these beatings under the bamboo without a sound, his face carven and pale as an image. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Then he bought a wide and deep carven bed, big enough for a small room in itself, and he bought flowered curtains to hang about it. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Light was growing, and the tall columns and carven figures beside the way went slowly by like grey ghosts. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z There before him was the great carven dais where the old lady had sat, her fragile, tended body wrapped in silvery satin. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Figures stood there at its head, carven with cunning in forms human and bestial, but all corrupt and loathsome. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Removed a little upon the other side sat Gandalf in a chair of carven wood; and he seemed at first to be asleep. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The eyes were hollow and the carven beard was broken, but about the high stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Within, upon the first floor above the street, up a wide carven stair, he showed them to a fair room, light and airy, with goodly hangings of dull gold sheen unfigured. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z In it were no tables, but a bright fire was burning in a great hearth between the carven pillars upon either side. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z When she had done, and smoothed me with sweet oil, she put a tunic and a cloak around me and took me to a silver-studded chair with footrest, all elaborately carven. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The king sat by the central fireplace, hunched up on a carven stool by the table. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Down a long narrow veranda they went, the roofs supported by delicate carven posts, and into a hall the like of which Wang Lung had never seen. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Through the white carven carpet that had been High Street pushed four oxen, buried up to their middles, dragging behind them a heavy plow. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Pippin saw his carven face with its proud bones and skin like ivory, and the long curved nose between the dark deep eyes; and he was reminded not so much of Boromir as of Aragorn. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Never thought I would see United States Senators acting like such carven lapdogs. Tax Plan’s Biggest Cuts Could Be in Living Standards 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z It is God's will that stones should be laid truly and carven well, and aptly described. Letters to the Clergy On The Lord's Prayer and the Church 2012-03-29T02:00:12.080Z In their blind ignorance they did not know that chiseled alabaster, wrought doors and windows, and carven cloisters, represented the hidden gold they were seeking. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Statues as complete in detail as though carven by the chisel of a sculptor. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z Instantly the roars ceased, and all the vast crowd stood as mute as carven statues. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z From window and dormer, from low door-ways, from carven eaves and gables, gaunt faces looked down on the stir, and pale lips prayed, and dull eyes glowed with hope. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z It was fresher, newer, in this instance, but it had no gold or carven frame; it was bound at its edge with fair blue ribbon only, beautifully 290 stitched, and suspended by it too. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z Would I were tossed on the wrinkled backs of those trees XI The clouds are like a sombre sea: On shining screens of ebony Are carven marvels of my heart. Irradiations; Sand and Spray 2012-02-14T03:00:28.347Z The Man was on the point of going to the rescue, but the coach having reached the old carven cross that marks the summit, a sudden and vivifying change came over our manner of progress. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z But for the twitching of slightly-contracted brows, her delicate features might have been carven, as, peering into space and seeing nothing, she sat motionless with bloodless lips. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Above his head we set a low granite block, with a carven line or two thereon. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z In another moment these restless midgets 430 were assaulting, with fluent phrases of insult, the carven faces of certain fantastic images which form the bases of the clustered columns. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Kate explained her shiver of repulsion by the carven malice of its features. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z Round the battlements many names, both of the bond and of the free, were carven. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z Save for two or three inlaid chairs, with embroidered cushions and carven feet, the room was empty of furniture. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z She stood erect against the wall opposite to me, meeting my gaze, her face stern and set, as though carven out of white marble, her eyes dark and glittering with menace. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z When at last, with puffs and groanings, the old dame had reached the carven doorway again, she rose wearily, rubbing her knees. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z The mountain laurel holds above gleaming leaves its marvelously carven cups, faint pink or white, amber-flecked. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z What is very singular, and accounts for the choice of subjects on its quaintly carven walls, is that they were not designed for a sacred building at all. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z What spells, what enchantments of ancient wizardry have not been recited among thy carven shadows! Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z So, without fear I lifted up my head, And lo! that writing was not, one fair word Was carven in its stead, and it was "Love." Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z This latter statement they were almost ready to accept, so richly carven was the yellow stone and so harmonious the proportions of nave and aisle. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Climb up among the boughs, and the carven quality is gone. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z Last spring, repairing some defect, We raised the carven stones, Designing to again collect And hide Sir Giles's bones. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z In a black oak chest all carven, We found it laid, Still faintly sweet of Lavender, An old brocade. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z It might have been frozen, so still it was; and she a carven thing, so still she stood; and her eyes set jewels, so still were they. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z Thou seest upon this chapel two carven images, representing two bulls. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z Look well at the door with its cornice of airy Cupids for ever playing Hide and Seek behind solemn urns and festoons of carven flowers. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Now is sung: Nicolette is prisoned fast, In a vaulted chamber cast, Shaped and carven wondrous well, Painted as by miracle. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z Let us, however, suppose that the reconnaissance has been successful, and that an outcrop of bone has been found, serving like a tombstone carven with strange characters to indicate the burial-place of some primeval monster. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z At the far end was a small carven table at which two Romans sat, a lamp and a crater of wine at their elbows, the tesser� of a dice-game between them. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z For several days have passed, and I have not yet thanked you 43 for the books, and for the curiously carven piece of jade, which you assure me will bring me my heart's desire. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z Olaf the Peacock bade him be with him In his new mighty house so carven and bright, And leave this house to Rannveig and his sons: He said that would be well, yet never goes. King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z Two more oils, one of mythological, the other of religious purport, balanced each other over the wings of a huge black carven sideboard. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z The carven table, rugged yet elaborate, pale with age, might once have been an altar; the chair behind it was certainly an ecclesiastical chair. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z At one center the English likened such carven figures to the faces of veiled nuns. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z He turned her hand and saw that the ring was shaped and carven like a crown—a crown with points. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z In the dim night-light the triple mirror of the dresser reflected the carven four-post bed, in one of whose pillows Nancy's dark head was already buried. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z Lingering about it was a passing sweet odour, for the silken cushions were stuffed with fragrant grasses from the West Indies, and the hand-railings and footstools were of carven sandalwood. A Maid of Many Moods 2011-08-23T02:00:27.517Z Its negroid face of black scarred rocks frowns like the carven stone countenance of some hideously mutilated and enraged Titan savage. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z They are doing good work in glass, I know, and in carven stone, and some other things, but that is mostly for the rich abbeys. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z Never believe this bird connotes Jade whorls of carven commonness: Nor as from ordinary throats Slides his sharp song in ice-strung stress. A Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary american poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle 2011-07-25T02:00:12.380Z Its catch loosened by the jar, a tiny carven panel had fallen with a little click, and a thin sheaf of yellowed letters had dropped and spread fan-wise beside his hand. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z Before her, the face smeared with shining varnish, lay the wooden Christ, hard and cold in its carven bareness and rigidity. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z On one side stood a large raised daïs for sitters, and for non-sitters who wished to sit down there were quaint old carven chairs. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z His manner was then haughty and quiet, and his face looked as if carven out of steel, so cold and clear-cut were its features, so hard and implacable the resolve written on them. Playing With Fire 2011-06-29T02:00:30.590Z The man's white face was carven, his eyes melancholy, yet he talked easily and gracefully. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z I do not read upon each stone The name that once was carven there; I merely note new blossoms blown And breathe the perfume of the air. Eight Harvard Poets 2011-06-26T02:00:08.617Z The face was lovely enough to win praise from any man, but an expression, strangely akin to that bestowed on the carven name outside, escaped him. Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z Tall stones with carven turbans to indicate men’s graves, flat stones for the graves of women, and gloomy cypress trees. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z O'er that calm brow And carven face, uplifted from the tomb In speechless faith, there shines a wondrous light That mocks the awful declaration there. Virginia, A Tragedy And Other Poems 2011-05-26T02:00:17.117Z Baird looked from one to the other, three white faces carven into sudden and violent self-control. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z What shall we say of the complacent acceptance, above and about windows and doorways in clubs, offices, barracks, and the like buildings, of carven wonders such as no other civilised community would accept in silence? The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z The houses are old; many of them very handsome, and rich with ornamental stucco-work,— 'All garlanded with carven imageries Of fruit and flowers and bunches of knot-grass.' The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z Tho' they murmur not, Their carven stillness is a music rare, And like the song of one whose tongue hath caught The clear ethereal essence of his thought. Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets 2011-05-09T02:00:03.610Z Foursquare and vast was the throne room, with the lofty stone ceiling supported by carven pillars. The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z Judith turned abruptly, faced God's half-acre, and Ben stood still with eyes on her rigid shoulders and carven profile. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z In autumn and winter there is a chill dampness on the greenish-gray paving-stones of the cloister, and the rain drips heavily from carven capitals into the resounding court. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z "By the devices I have now seen carven upon her stern," said Timothy. The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR 2011-04-25T02:00:10.333Z But the bulwarks were set round with carven images in little niches, and each had its lamp, and the like on every deck; and that was how the illumination had come. The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh 2011-04-19T02:00:15.690Z The walls of the room, which was a large one, were piled from floor to ceiling with books, which ran in long straggling tiers, on shelves of carven oak. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z But Ambrose thought of the Great Mountain, of the secret valleys, of the sanctuaries and hallows of the saints, of the rich carven work of lonely churches hidden amongst the hills and woods. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z Four flawed emeralds there are, but one is drilled in two places, and one is a little carven—' 'Their weights?' said Lurgan Sahib impassively. Kim 2011-03-13T03:00:25.327Z Overhead were strangely carven beams, barely visible in the dusk of the room’s great arch. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z I looked above me in wonder at all the rows of carven saints and angels, as it were the hierarchy of heaven. The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh 2011-04-19T02:00:15.690Z A large crimson curtained easel stood upon a da�s of carven oak beside Mr. Cavanagh's chair, and in a far corner glimmered an ebony framed grand piano. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z Above the front door was a rich and curious wooden pent-house, deeply carven; and within there was plenty of excellent panelling, and some good mantelpieces, added, it would seem, somewhere about the Adam period. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z The Princess Cendre sat so still that Sweep at first believed she was some lovely carven image he beheld. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z The Maya writing was not only carven on stone but written and painted upon skins and the like. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z Lean back thy throat of carven pearl, Let thy mouth murmur like the dove's; Say, Venus hath no girl, No front of female curl, Among her Loves. Poems & Ballads (First Series) 2011-02-28T03:00:30.587Z With weary eyes and aching head She stitched the stripes of white and red, And when the day came up the stair Complete across a carven chair Hung Betsy’s battle flag. Ethel Morton at Sweetbriar Lodge 2011-02-24T03:01:03.877Z He paused a moment, but he might as well have been looking upon carven statues. The Last Stroke a detective story 2011-02-19T03:01:39.327Z And there are hedges all clipped and square, As carven from blocks of malachite, Where fountains keep spinning their threads of light And statues whiten the shadow there. Hospital Sketches 2011-02-16T03:00:37.920Z A carven targe, with golden shapes aglow, Hung o'er his back. The Rhesus of Euripedes 2011-02-06T03:01:01.240Z My hair was like the flag-flower, And my breasts carven goodlier Than beryl with chalcedony. Poems & Ballads (First Series) 2011-02-28T03:00:30.587Z His features were careworn and haggard, yet in them lingered some indefinable suggestion of fine lines and deeply carven strength. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z Here and there the wintry sun caressed a statue or carven pillar, gilding the backs of the great high chairs, where long-dead prelate and prince had sat. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z Above him towered the huge, gilt pipes; while from every corner looked down the carven cherubim, here and there one with a flush of light upon its swollen cheeks. A Little World “But I have a fancy for examining some of these quaint old parterres and carven trees, so we’ll turn down here.” A Double Knot Her crape veil thrown back over a bonnet showing a face, as it were, carven in grey granite, Aphra Orrin stood before her country's justice fingering a brown rosary. Deep Moat Grange The carven lines of his face deepened, aged, as from him was rent the veil of his posturing. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z In the hall he stood a moment before the fireplace, his eyes on its carven motto, I clinge: the phrase was like a spear-thrust. The Valiants of Virginia For a long minute Jerusha Darby looked steadily at her niece, her own face as hard and impenetrable as if it were carven out of flint. The Reclaimers No so easy killed as your lover was—just the carven'-knife between his shoulders when he was stoopin' down, that's all. Beggars on Horseback Two young girls who might have been some eighteen years old, knelt side by side at the foot of the steps, motionless as carven images and dressed in white. Glories of Spain Gradually he realized that they were carven images of some sort. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z His eyes turned from the carven words and strayed to the pleasant sunny foliage outside. The Valiants of Virginia For Michael somehow the conventional expression seemed to disturb the divinity of his mother's carven woe. Sinister Street, vol. 1 It was oddly metallic hair, not only in its colour, but in the carven ripples of it where she wore it pulled across her low brow and massed in heavy braids round her head. Beggars on Horseback "Everybody loafing, as usual," she muttered sourly, and she hurled her coat at the carven back of a great cathedral chair—and missed it. The Haunted Pajamas All that night the great Abbey of Montblanch, with its garniture of stall and chapel, carven reredos and painted picture, went blazing up to the skies. The Firebrand I still supposed that when the children grew up they would forget this miserable idol of carven wood. The Book of Gud His saddle was new, carven, wrought with silver; his bridle shone as the sun, his spurs as bright stars; he shed music from his feet. Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus This same simplicity it is which shall make Ruskin a monument of white, like an angel with carven wings, when Sartor Resartus lies howling, with none so poor to patch him. The Day of His Youth The casing of the jewel was in the first place superb—a wonder of carven white stone of the Indo-Saracenic style. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel There were two great carven figureheads guarding the gate, and Andrew Harben even saw the name under one of them, a most calm and beautiful white face looking down on this rascal crew. Where the Pavement Ends For her face was carven out of stone And her little lips made moan, made moan. The Book of Gud Surely he who did thy carven chin had a mind to a master work and did no less. Ideas of Good and Evil There are pre-Egyptian inscriptions on these walls, inspector, could you but recognize them, carven in languages that perished from the face of earth before Egypt was born. The Door into Infinity We entered a temple, or a tomb, I do not know which, through a gateway of carven pillars. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel She looked at the dim, adorable face so near her own, at the carven lip, the quivering, arched nostril, the fine, proud carriage and dauntless glance of her godling. Where the Pavement Ends Look at yon carven shield, Above the chantry door, No blazoned pride bedecks its field, But emblems five sprent o'er. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West She sat, in a great chair of carven wood. Black Amazon of Mars Only, at the middle of the glistening black oval face, were carven deeply four large and wholly unfamiliar characters. The Door into Infinity He found it in the city square as Tod had said; and it was an unlovely statue, carven after the dropsical fashion of later Hindu art. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel For some minutes the great bird was as still as a carven figure. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life Its jewel of music is carven of all or of aught— Love, laughter, or mourning—remembrance of rapture or fear— That fancy may fashion to hang in the ear of thought. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Their mitres were as moving pyramids And all their crowns as marching towers were tall; Their eyes were cold under their carven lids And the same carven smile was on them all. The Ballad of St. Barbara And Other Verses These men stood with their arms folded, and looked across the narrow space at one another as though they had been carven statues. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway He showed us a sacred turtle of mammoth size, carven in wood down to minutest detail. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Electra sat there, her feet together, her hands in her lap, like a carven image, and held herself still in her dream of fantasy. Rose MacLeod We saw little dusty whirlwinds, carven monoliths that were weathering away, strange blue-green vegetation, some of which we could recognize. Stamped Caution There stood Amid the ornamental bronze and stone An ancient image made of olive wood; And gone are Phidias’ carven ivories And all his golden grasshoppers and bees. Seven Poems and a Fragment It was at one end of a vast room with black oaken ceiling, carven and panelled. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway The universally elaborate carven pulpits and choir-stalls are wonders of their kind. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine A carven, testered bedstead stands With rusty silks draped all about; And like a moon in murky lands A mirror glitters out. Blooms of the Berry She feels for the spring in the sliding panel 'Neath the arras, hid in the carven oak. Idyllic Monologues Old and New World Verses These were very quiet, the carven smile on their crimson lips not disturbing the careful arrangement of their features; and their eyes never lost their jewel-like immobility. Ancestors A Novel The winds are phantom voices Around its carven doors; The moonbeams, specter footsteps Upon its polished floors. The Garden of Dreams One was of hewn stone, as Kriijorl had said, immobile, with ancient symbols carven from its base to its pinnacle. The Women-Stealers of Thrayx Along that side toward the Quai D'Orsay, a cloistered porch joined the terrace from the steps to rear its carven roof beneath the windows of the upper floors. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch Like some carven form of grief There the poor black Mumma stands On her hind feet, with her paws Pleading with the raging clown. Atta Troll “Nor you these carven woods, where birds in bowers With twisting snakes and climbing cupids, play.” The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV He followed the attendant to a large room, whose huge mantel was carven with the red hand and supporting lions of the clan Reilly, and passed over to the bed beside the window. Nuala O'Malley The nain is a figure fearsomely Celtic in its hideousness, resembling the gargoyles which peer down upon the traveller from the carven ‘top-hamper’ of so many Breton churches. Legends & Romances of Brittany Kirby dared not guess how many pounds the carven hunk of flashing, blue-white carbon weighed. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 The squire grew purple and all, And every little chorister bestrode his carven stall. The Lord of Misrule And Other Poems I drew the key forth quietly and stepped back Into the Churchyard, where the graves were warm With sunset still, and the blunt carven stones Lengthened their homely shadows, out and out, To Everlasting. Collected Poems Volume Two But to Brian all these things were very small and hard to make out distinctly, as if he were looking at some carven mimicry, such as children are wont to use in play. Nuala O'Malley And all The prisoners and the prizes at those isles They left behind them, taking what they would From out their carven cabins,—glimmering silks, Chiselled Toledo blades, and broad doubloons. Collected Poems Volume One Naida’s reaction to the carven gold was as unexpected as it was marked. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 The river front is nine hundred feet in length, with an elaborately decorated façade with carven statues and emblems. Dickens' London But on the way a marvel did they see, For, passing by, where wrought of ivory, There stood the Goddess of the flowery isle, All folk could see the carven image smile. The Earthly Paradise A Poem Some to the bed-side of their dying kind To clasp with arms afraid to loose their hold; Some to a church-yard falling on a grave To kiss the carven name with lips as cold. The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems Then Drake appointed Doughty, with a guard, To sail the prize on to the next dim isle Where they might leave her, taking aught they would From out her carven cabins and rich holds. Collected Poems Volume One It is a gift from a Christian to a Pagan, and the message told me a king would be proud to wear this strand of carven beads. The Flute of the Gods And now Smithy stood like a rigid carven statue in the midst of a barren sandy waste in the vast cup of a towering volcano top—sand that was in reality coarse pumice and ash. Two Thousand Miles Below These, with the characteristically Renaissance north and south porches, with their carven doorways, all go to complete a series of typically fashioned details, each true to its own age. The Cathedrals of Northern France Those carven figures, forming a semi-circle upon the platform were figures of gods, squat, huge forms seeming to emerge out of the blocks of rock from which they had been fashioned. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 While at carven dragon ships Floating o'er that silent sea, Squat-limbed gods with dreadful lips Leered and smiled mysteriously. Collected Poems Volume One Tula had knelt like the others, facing a little shelf on the wall where a carven saint was dimly illuminated by the light of a candle. The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine He was a brown-faced fellow of small stature and as lithe as an Indian, and he was juggling recklessly with a pair of grotesque carven sticks, crying the while: 'He-ur you-ur ur! Against Odds A Detective Story The carven figures in general are not considered the equal in workmanship of those at Reims, though the effect and arrangement is similar. The Cathedrals of Northern France Here, upon a stage, flanked with huge carven figures, a group was gathered. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 And all about the platform, edging it ere it falls away below, are little shrines, marvels of carven woodwork and red lacquer. The Soul of a People Perching motionless, alone, Ibis, bird of classic fame, From a carven slab of stone Reads the moon-god's sacred name. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems A silver fountain played In a bowl of carven jade, And pink and white in a crystal pond the waterlilies swayed. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales A curious and unique feature of these towers is the addition of four oxen in carven stone perched high aloft in the belfries. The Cathedrals of Northern France He reached up to the carven cross depending from the breast of the young man bending over him. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main The pink fingers of one hand tapped gently on the carven arm of her throne. Priestess of the Flame The shimmer flicks Upon the carven panellings The banners of the heretics. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems The thin carven features of the children were emotionless, waiting. Now We Are Three On the walls of the nave, beneath the low160 clerestory windows, are a series of four carven Renaissance marble panels, with other blanks suggesting the ultimate addition of similar sepulchral-looking ornaments. The Cathedrals of Northern France He stepped nearer to Alvarado, seized the carven crucifix, and lifted it to the light. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main How oft, his churches roaming, flashed its beam From pillar on to pillar, resting long On carven imagery of flower or fruit, Or deep-dyed window whence the heavenly choirs Gave joy to men below! Legends of the Saxon Saints "There's only one ship that ever I did see with carven letters on her side, and that was Chew's ship, the Venture." Mr. Wicker's Window It was carven of the solid rock and fashioned with its face to the sunrise and its back to the desert. Round the Wonderful World He did not observe that the Easy Chair had shrunk forward until all its leathern seat was wrinkled and its carven top was bent over its old red back. Imaginary Interviews Such a beautiful old hall! built in the time of the Tudors, with a great carven fireplace, mullioned windows in deep square bays, and a ceiling carved with fans, shields, and roses. In the High Valley Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series A high latticed window looked out upon the court, and there was a bench in the nook, curiously carven and filled with stuffs and naperies the like of which Robin had never seen before. Robin Hood There is something in the carven box which the shrieking oracle commended to me. Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy The floor was of stone, smooth and seamless as though carven from one great rock, yet seeming not, in some way, to be stone at all. The Man Who Saw the Future He closed his eyes, and leaned his head back against the uncomfortably carven top of the Easy Chair. Imaginary Interviews We linger'd near the stem Of that lone tree on which was seen the gem Of his bright name, there carven by himself; And then I stoop'd and kiss'd thy garment's hem. A Lover's Litanies I found her sat of a chair of carven wood, beside the brasier, and two gentlemen of the other side of the hearth. In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers “God save the King!” he thundered, and with that loyal music in his ears the King followed Brilliana down the great staircase over which the carven angels kept watch and ward. The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel The old question of the carven Sphinx sat on each bronze face. The Vanishing Race Naomi caught up her little scarlet cloak from out the carven chest, and as Ezra came past the door, leading the little gray donkey, she flung it across her brother's arm. Christmas Light The bulky growing mounds of white and gray deposit are edged with minutely carven basins mounted upon elaborately fluted supports of ornate design, over whose many-colored edges flows a shimmer of hot water. The Book of the National Parks The carven tombstones with their ornaments resemble those of Celtic countries, and are found also at Bologna in Italy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Between the topmost pair of carven angels a woman stood for a second looking down upon the man below. The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel His eyes, as slowly he strangled, glared hideously at the ceiling, from which the carven face of a Queen looked down into them. The Fifth Queen Crowned Canoes and blotos, rowed by lithe brown figures, come out to welcome the steamer, and a fantastic boat, with carven prow, darts from beneath a green bower of tangled foliage, laden with golden bananas. Through the Malay Archipelago Its floor lies two thousand feet below, an enormous rainless, rolling plain from which rise thirteen volcanic cones, clean-cut, as regular in form as carven things. The Book of the National Parks I followed the servant with the candle aloft through chill and carven corridors, through galleries lined with faded portraits of forgotten lords. Humorous Ghost Stories Till the walls and the roofs and the curious keystone, The carven rose with its petals uncurled, Spectra A Book of Poetic Experiments In a corner was a cabinet of gilt and glass, filled with Dresden-china figurines and toy tables and a carven Swiss musical powder-box. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life It had an oddly softening effect upon his rather carven face. Antony Gray,—Gardener The next most striking object after the gigantic carven cliffs is Wizard Island. The Book of the National Parks Right in front of him was standing a horrible specter, motionless as a carven image, and monstrous as a madman's dream! Humorous Ghost Stories O bribe-giver, marked with purple metal� Cut in your naked contentment there shows On the curve of your breast one carven petal From heaven's impenetrable rose! Spectra A Book of Poetic Experiments He sat there like a carven figure with his face in his hand. Tongues of Conscience Of crystal carven was the cup, With turquoise set along the brim, A lid of amber closed it up; 'Twas a great king that gave it him. Indian Poetry Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems. A mere bed, notwithstanding its magic camouflage of coverings, of canopy, of disguised pillows, of shining brass or fluted carven posts, is, pancake like, never surrounded by this aura of romance. Edge of the Jungle Clare still stood in the same place like a carven woman. The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] Through pictured windows sunshine fell On carven cedar old, On velvet hangings, shading well Fair bindings manifold. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 January 11, 1890 He sat down in one of the carven chairs and continued to puff his cigarette with provoking amiability. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play Wilhelmine passed up the nave, through a small door in the side of the carven wooden screen, and up a dark and narrow winding stair which led to the organ-loft. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg She had moved aside and away from him on her knees; her head remained turned, too, and her features were set as though carven out of rosy marble. Barbarians It was the carven head of an Ethiopian! He In the lee of the greater dunes were carven hollows, and here the sand-clouds moved in faint shadows. A Tramp's Notebook Natalie, her head slightly averted, sat her horse like a carven woman. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest Where pleasure mounds in carven wood And many a graven figure stood. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse He sees as a painter or a gem-engraver sees, and will transpose his perceptions into coloured and carven words. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. And one will lead thee thither who abides hard by the great tree carven like the head of an Ethiopian. He Therewith the globe he showed, The half whereof smooth-sparkling was: Half glowed With carven work; embossed with pale leaves light, And delicately sculptured birds in flight, And clustered flowers frail. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman Around the court rise long colonnades of pillars with grotesquely carven bases and capitals of luxuriant design. Mr. Faust The eyelids with their long lashes looked as if they were carven. The Girls at Mount Morris The hall itself, and the inner side of the carven arches of the arcade were in dense shadow. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance With the eyes of the company upon him, the duke's fool impassively studied the carven figure on his stick. Under the Rose Long there Pale Lilith looked, as coldly still and fair As carven stone. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman Dan uttered puzzled words of thanks, and the old man nodded, reseating himself on the carven bench; Galatea skipped through the arched entrance, and Dan, after an irresolute moment, dropped to the remaining bench. Pygmalion's Spectacles Ah, gracious Africa, thy feet are fashioned like carven ivory, thy voice is drowsy sweet, and thy ways, I cannot tell of them.' Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Richard, meanwhile, folding his arms upon the carven and gilt frame of the sofa, looked back at her, smiling still, at once ironically and very sadly. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance With whip and spur he was vehemently plying a horse that stubbornly stood as motionless as carven stone. Under the Rose What! they have frighted you, By hanging burs, and clumsily carven puppets, Round my good name; but afterwards, my love, I will say what this means; this moment, see! The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems She lay like a carven statue, her face marble white in the clear morning light. Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray Under the hard stars set in a dry sapphire, the fire cast yellow flickers upon the carven features of Kawa Kendi. Witch-Doctors Julius knelt at the faldstool, without the altar rails of the chapel, till the light showed faintly through the grisaille of the stained-glass windows and outlined the spires and carven canopies of the stalls. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance When he called to him the carrier-dove that sped with a scroll of love words across the mountains, the bird sank on his breast a carven piece of metal. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida His bold features wore the usual Indian expression of saturnine imperturbability, and he half sat, half reclined upon the log as motionless as a piece of carven bronze, staring at Landless with large, inscrutable eyes. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia She lay in a huge temple, prone upon its marble floor, in the shadow of a pillar curiously carven. The Sins of Séverac Bablon For a full two minutes he stood as if carven, while the doctors and the chiefs moaned dismally. Witch-Doctors Alone, behind all these, in the first of the row of stalls with their carven spires and dark vaulted canopies, sat Richard Calmady, whom all his people had thus come forth silently to welcome. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Now and then a bat moved in the shadows; now and then a gleam of light came to the ranks of carven figures. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida And so we stood for a moment, he quiet as a carven statue and I restless but obedient to his wishes. The Old Stone House and Other Stories The table was black with great age, and a carven chair, equally antique, stood by it upon a coarse fibre mat. The Sins of Séverac Bablon She shows them silly carven stuff; Some sneer, but others smile and buy; And these light smiles are quite enough To make the wistful maiden sigh. Ionica He stood at the far end of the sofa, resting his hands on the gilded and carven arm of it. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance “Like your tobacco-jar?” the engineer said, pointing to the old carven corbel. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp Beneath were legends and proverbs, printed in quaint, old-German characters; while across one end, like a frieze, ran a ledge carven with gargoyles, rude and misshapen. The Black Cross The big, carven, chair was too heavy to wield. The Sins of Séverac Bablon But no ancestral majesties could fix The wistful eye, which fell, and fondly read, Fresh carven on the panel, letters six, A brother's name, more sacred than the dead. Ionica And this notwithstanding the unaccustomed warmth of the outside air, did but temper the chill atmosphere of the room and serve to draw a faint aroma from the carven cedar wood. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Do they engrave deeper the loved face carven on the tablets of memory, which the attrition of worldly cares is ever obliterating, and the lichens of worldly thoughts ever filling up? Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. The boys examined Bob's silver-inlaid kris, with its carven handle of bone, and it was indeed a trophy worth carrying home. The Pirate Shark A veil seemed to have taken the place of the carven pillar, a thin, dream-veil. The Sins of Séverac Bablon These little shoes had once been the shoes of one who lay here, a princess, dead thousands of years, and once very beautiful, as these carven symbols told. The Singing Mouse Stories He could see the still, flat forms, uncovered and prone on their narrow beds, like carven figures of soldiers on tombs. A Soldier of the Legion And it was covered with a plateau of massive silver weighing five hundred pounds—five hundred pounds, mind you, chased and carven. The Coming of the King There was terror on that face, carven and set in dead flesh, that set my blood screaming in my body. Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Looking about more carefully to note the different means of egress, my attention was attracted by a carven shield above the main door. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV Open shop fronts and quaintly carven balconies were noisy with shrill voices. The Great Amulet Into old carven chests I dived, opening package after package of mouldy papers. The Statesmen Snowbound The inscrutable eyes set in the rigid face gave her the likeness to some carven thing. The Hippodrome There, stark she lay on her carven bed; Seven burning tapers about her feet, And seven about her head. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform These carven figures, wet and glistening in the light of the street-lamps, stood out incongruously gloomy and ghostly, like the high relief on a sarcophagus. Phantom Wires A Novel The open hand showed in the lamplight steady as a carven hand. Brood of the Witch-Queen Whole chapters are poems, rich as if carven on blocks of solid gold. A Hero and Some Other Folks Some believe it was built by King David of Scotland: others by one Robert de Rede, since his name may still be seen carven upon the stone by him who has skill to look. A Book of Quaker Saints The town at the time of Drake's raid contained about forty or fifty houses, some of them handsome stone structures decorated with carven work. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. I mounted on this carven box of old black oak and directed the rays of electric light into the chasm between it and the wall. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont At the question all expression vanished from the other's face, leaving it as immobile as a carven image of stone. The Lost Valley Its natural impassivity was so greatly increased by the presence of the coloured spectacles that my study was as profitless as if I had scrutinized the face of a carven Buddha. The Devil Doctor David lay near by, breathing lightly, his face like a pale carven mask against the blanket's folds. The Emigrant Trail The two pulpits of colored marbles and the celebrated screen with its carven figures are now hidden beneath pyramids of sand-bags. Italy at War and the Allies in the West While I paced the valley's gloom Where the rabbits pattered near, Shone a temple and a tomb With the legend carven clear. Irish Plays and Playwrights Moira was standing in the study just as I had left her, standing as motionless and devoid of life as a statue of carven stone. The Lost Valley Beside her stood a little round table supported on three carven feet of exquisite workmanship, and covered by a beautiful netting of crimson lace. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 At the top of the slope the three squaws sat as motionless as carven images. The Emigrant Trail Its sunken temples, cheeks and eyes, and the sharply carven bone outline were heart gripping. Robin The trembling passed; he was like a horse carven in bluish granite. Judith of Blue Lake Ranch As I walked up the broad aisle, the recess shifted strangely, and the clustered columns of 'carven stone' ran in and out, at hide and seek. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 And from the nearest, deep carven in the stone, a jagged-toothed skull, crowned and grinning, stared blankly at the three in the shabby car. Ralestone Luck Especially he loved to look on these tombs, where the sign of the Cross found no place, but which bore Latin inscriptions and were adorned with carven figures of men and gods. The Well of Saint Clare Then a voice rang out o'er the fiord so blue; And the carven angels, the whole church through, Turned round, methought, to listen thereto. The Feast at Solhoug Of the iron of doom are the casquets carven, That never the rivets thereof should burst. A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems Still she stood as a carven image, as a stone of ancient days When the sun is bright about it and the wind sweeps low o'er the ways. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs So the king, after that he had gazed awhile on the carven face of her he had loved well, said at last: p. The World of Romance being Contributions to The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, 1856 "This box," said Mr. Meyerstein, bending attentively over the carven brass coffer upon the table, "is certainly of considerable value, and possibly almost unique." The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor She saw, unmoved by any pride of possession, great canopied bedsteads, and chests of drawers whose carven tops reached the ceiling, and mirrors in gilded frames. Madelon A Novel Above one were posed three rudely carven figures bearing a slight resemblance to giant eagles, their wings outspread as if for flight. Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France Woe's me for the carven pillars where the spears of the Volsungs stood! The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs She had never seen a human face so—not whitened by his fear, but greyed—greyed as if seared with fire and turned to carven ashes. The Old Flute-Player A Romance of To-day He stood upon the black rug before the massive, carven mantelpiece, a huge man in an appropriately huge setting. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor Lot clutched the carven edge of the mantel-shelf, then loosened his fingers. Madelon A Novel The few stars, peeping shyly forth between scurrying black cloud masses, were so far away they merely silvered the cloud edges, leaving them as though carven from granite. Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France Lighted as for a reception, the architectural beauties of its Moorish arcades and carven balustrades flashed in full splendor. The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow Now the carven image of the Saviour seemed to gleam out from the black of the cross and the shadowy wall as if with an inner illumination. The Harbor Master The two children, standing in the shelter of a carven screen, clapped their hands in the American fashion. Little Sky-High The Surprising Doings of Washee-Washee-Wang There was a great carven chest in a corner of the room, which Lot unlocked, and took from thence all those rich fabrics which he had bought for Madelon. Madelon A Novel Winston stood as though carven from stone, his face deathly white, his lips compressed, his gray eyes burning, never wavering from that mocking face. Beth Norvell A Romance of the West In my helpless gaze, To mark the spot, was fixed this carven stone, Raw, garish, stolidly obtrusive then, Now harmonising kindly with the rest. My Beautiful Lady. Nelly Dale He might have been a carven copestone of the very granite fang he sat upon, for all the appearance of life he gave, except that occasionally—say at fifteen-minute intervals—he winked a yellow-lidded wink. The Way of the Wild "Right to the carven cedarn doors, Flung inward over spangled floors, Broad-based flights of marble stairs Ran up with golden balustrade, After the fashion of the time." The Days of Mohammed She sat next her mother, and her smooth dark head with its carven comb arose from her Sunday kerchief with a like carriage. Pembroke A Novel She stood silent, motionless, the strange radiance causing her to appear unreal, some divinely moulded statue, an artist's dream carven in colored stone. Beth Norvell A Romance of the West Or the carven cherub-hands Which hold thy shield to the font? The Haunted Hour An Anthology Its carven and gilded roof was supported by alabaster columns. Atmâ A Romance She sat down, and remained still as a carven image, thinking over what had been told her. The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York He restlessly tapped his gaitered boots with a stick upon whose gold head was carven the Burton crest. Destiny Far down, near a confessional, knelt a small group of hooded women, motionless as carven images. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 And they put a fine white marble monument over his grave whereon was carven the following epitaph: Here lyes Tom Thumb, King Arthur's Knight, Who died by a spider's fell despite. English Fairy Tales Then he sobbed once, and his face became fixed, like a mask of carven stone. The Romance of the Coast As she moved about among the strange carven toys and beautiful ornaments, she could think only of him,—of his stately manner and dark, handsome face. The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York You did not realise that there was no room for both passions in the same soul: they cannot live together in that fair carven house. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 She raised her hand, and her fingers looked carven white in the moonlight, though by daylight they were brown. Montlivet At the end of this was a smaller door, and over this was carven: BE BOLD, BE BOLD; BUT NOT TOO BOLD. English Fairy Tales His face looked as though it were carven out of steel, so smooth and clean cut were his features. The Romance of the Coast While I paced the valley's gloom Where the rabbits pattered near, Shone a temple and a tomb With the legend carven clear: 'Time put by a myriad fates That her day might dawn in glory. The Nuts of Knowledge Lyrical Poems Old and New Masanath noted with a little trepidation that her door was very near to the portals over which was the winged sun, carven and portentous. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt The panelled library in Montaigne’s chateau was carven with mottoes, which were to be charms p. 43against too great fear of death. Lost Leaders A bit frowning and gloomy, but when she came up to the wide gateway she saw these words carven over the arch: BE BOLD—BE BOLD. English Fairy Tales Where had he caught that word in carven letters twined among lilies above the marble staircase? The Witness From their blue gables gilded fishes hang; By their red pillars carven coursers run. More Translations from the Chinese He even ignored the passive and meditative repose, immemorial on the carven countenances of Egypt. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Then she sank into her chair, spreading her trembling hands upon the carven manes of the lions. The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century Blue-distant, a mountain of carven stone appeared before them,—the Temple, lifting to heaven its wilderness of chiseled pinnacles, flinging to the sky the golden spray of its decoration. The Art of Public Speaking Giant aisles intercrossed their heights above him; myriads of mighty pillars, fantastically carven, filed away to invisibility behind the yellow illumination of torch-fires. Some Chinese Ghosts My mother came into the hall again, and stood for a moment like a carven statue looking at the maidens who wrought at packing what they might. King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut There was the spot Starrett's glass had struck; there the ancient carven chair in which Diane had mocked his mother; there was red—blood-red in the dying log—and gold. Diane of the Green Van Drawing the carven stool two feet from the wall, Mary Antony took her seat upon it. The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century The high-altar, it was remembered, had been of stone throughout, surrounded with curtains on the three sides, hanging between posts that had each a carven angel, all gilt. Come Rack! Come Rope! Blue-distant, a mountain of carven stone appeared before them,—the Temple, lifting to heaven its wilderness of chiselled pinnacles, flinging to the sky the golden spray of its decoration. Some Chinese Ghosts It was a little black crucifix carven of the bog oak by one of the brothers who was skilful at that work. A Sea Queen's Sailing It is lined with beaded trinkets, curious carven things of cypress, pots of dye made of berries and barks, and pottery which she has patterned after the relics in the sand mounds. Diane of the Green Van She, who had now learned to "look . . . at the things that are not seen," could not find help through gazing on carven images. The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century Now and then a bat moved in the shadows,—now and then a gleam of light came on the ranks of carven figures. Stories of Childhood He noted also the unimpaired excellence of her erect and girlish slightness and, under her pretty hat and early whitened hair, the carven fineness of her features. The Flower of the Chapdelaines She had two handsome boats, with carven gunwales and stem and stern posts set on their chocks side by side amidships, with their sails and oars in them. A Sea Queen's Sailing How often she had spelled the words, pointing out the deeply carven letters to Davy: "Be ye also ready." The Little Colonel's House Party Yet, beneath her carven tranquillity, heart and spirit were deeply stirred. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Again there was silence, the Skipper gazing darkly at his carven runes, Mr. Bill Hen still puffing and wiping his brow. Nautilus He was tall and thin and sombre-hued, with a carven face and thick gray hair. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel In just such a way did Jill unfold her treasures to the Arab, sitting as some carven image in the shadow. Desert Love It is a mighty coast—ground out and pounded, scarred, crushed, and carven in massive, frightful lineaments. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil He simply sat there, in a carven stillness, staring down, down, into abysmal depths.... Far to Seek A Romance of England and India And each temple was nobly carven and wrought with statues and pictures. The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Strange carven beasts gazed on from a setting of rich, barbaric splendor and she herself—the Liar—lay in rags before the gold and ivory of that lofty throne whereon sat Zora. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel Then Gray Beaver drew from beneath his robe a beautifully ornamented pipe, with a curved horn stem and a carven bowl. The Forest Runners A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky One was the young and passionate countenance of the gypsy, and the other was that of his beautiful mother with her pale, carven features, her snow-white hair, her pensive and unearthly expression. The Redemption of David Corson Seated on a carven slab, they looked downward into the heart of desolation; upward, at creeping battlements and a little temple of Shiva printed sharply on the light-filled sky. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Outside horses were stamping, his escort, seven Arab horses with seven Arabs from the desert, or thereabout, in high-pummelled saddles, wearing white bournous, their brown, lean hands grasping long-barrelled guns with small carven stocks. Sister Teresa By the cathedral the carven Christ hung on in the wan yellow light, very still. Simon Called Peter Right in front of him was standing a horrible spectre, motionless as a carven image, and monstrous as a madman's dream! The Canterville Ghost He came to the dial, and, bending, pressed his lips against the carven words that, so often as they had stood there together, she had traced with her finger. Audrey It is very narrow of street, with whitewashed walls, balconies, and wonderful carven and studded doors. African Camp Fires Above the shattered doors were two carven hearts, a red dagger through one and a red flame issuing from the other. White Shadows in the South Seas All that had gone before was as nothing to this volume of praise that shook, it seemed to him, the very carven roof above and swept the ancient walls in waves of sound. Simon Called Peter “Ah, gracious Bombyca, thy feet are fashioned like carven ivory, thy voice is drowsy sweet, and thy ways—I can not tell of them.” Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn Colonel Byrd took out his snuffbox and studied the picture on the lid, while his daughter sat like a carven lady, with a slight smile upon her lips. Audrey His heart playing a sudden drum-beat, he threw the carven timber from him and bounded to his feet. Queed Hundreds ate daily at his board, which was heaped with a rude and rich profusion, and furnished with carven goblets and plate of gold and silver. Italian Journeys They turned the corner, and presently found themselves outside the famous carven door of the church. Simon Called Peter And the abbot, sitting in his carven chair amid his rolls of parchment and instruments of writing, raised me swiftly as I stooped to kiss his hand. The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin Being a Chronicle of Sir Nigel de Bessin, Knight, of Things that Happed in Guernsey Island, in the Norman Seas, in and about the Year One Thousand and Fifty-Seven Through gold and silver doors they sinuous swarm And crop the carven flowers with gust enorme; Till all is emptiness. A Celtic Psaltery After-wards, he sat in the Scriptorium, his face like a carven image, the sacred Schedule in his hands. Queed His large figure and important powerful head and face showed almost like those of a carven effigy in the lowered light of the chancel. The Dweller on the Threshold He discharged his car at the Arc de Triomphe, and set about deciphering the carven pictures. Simon Called Peter Yet all was no more than stained light that lies broken across carven work of stone…. Lord of the World And that although merely so scratched, they had never been effaced, but were even more easily read than the carven script. Marie Marvelous ferns grew rich and thick in the dark red earth, fastening their roots about the roots of hazel and beech and maple, clustering like the carven capitals of a cathedral pillar. The Hill of Dreams And Toby, crouched with his head in his hands, was as a carven image, neither stirring nor seeming to breathe. Charles Rex So there is a certain pleasure in tracing in a carven object, even though it be hideous, the patient, faithful, watchful work of the human hand guided at every instant by the human eye. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Simin crawled out from the heart of the stone, upwards through the long carven tunnel. Oberheim (Voices) There were fans of strangely-woven silk, with sticks of carven rock-crystal, and hand mirrors of polished copper set in frames of gems that he did not recognize. Romance Island Over us towered a wonderful carven dragon's head, painted green and gilded, and at the stern of the ship rose what was meant for its carven tail. A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford There was the old-fashioned square piano in its carven case, and cabinets from China or East India; also a lacquered Japanese screen, marble-topped tables of filigreed teek, brackets of inlaid ebony. In the Footprints of the Padres And while they journeyed, lo, the giants sat Within the fairest hall where all were fair, Each on his carven throne, o'er-canopied With work of women. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. And presently he came unto a gate Of massy gold, that shone with splendid state Of mystic hieroglyphs, and storied frieze All overwrought with carven phantasies. The Poems of William Watson With that Amory drew the carven stopper, fitted in the little funnel that hung about the neck of the vase, poured a half-finger of the wine in each cup, and lifted one in his hand. Romance Island He sat at a great heavy table in a carven chair, leaning his crossed arms before him on the board, and staring at naught with hollow, black-ringed eyes, as of sleeplessness and grief. A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford The stone beside us waxes old, the carven stone that says: On this spot once Confucius stood and felt the smallness of the world below. Profiles from China But Jock, like his partner the coachman, appeared to be carven in stone. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns A dozen years, and lo! the roots of grass Had burst asunder all the joints; the brass, The gilded ornaments, the carven stones Lay tumbled all together in a mass. Black Beetles in Amber King Otho leaned upon the arm of his carven throne. Romance Island It had a genuine chef, with sub-chefs, good waiters whose sole weakness was linguistic, and an apartment of carven oak with a vast counterfeit eye that looked down on you from the ceiling. The Price of Love Russell jumped to his feet with a shout, and shook from his neck a little crab with a back like green velvet and legs like carven garnet. The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California Dimly through the swinging water I could see others coming from every carven doorway down the silent street. Us and the Bottleman "It was," said he, "like a carven image laid in its richly embossed enclosure, and there was a remote expression about it as if the whole had nothing to do with things present." Yesterdays with Authors Upon the carven arm of Prince Tabnit's throne St. George set something that he had taken from his pocket. Romance Island Above her brow gray lichens blot her name Upon the carven stone. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 All of England's best and bravest were there, and they sat in the carven stalls in St. George's Chapel, with their gorgeous banners drooping over them. Two Little Knights of Kentucky The pink color was in her marble face; pinker were her carven lips. The Doomswoman An Historical Romance of Old California Others showed more critical interest, appreciation of the wonderful artistic effects of the carven gold in all its architectural developments under the skilled chisels of the Jannati Shahr folk. The Flying Legion Some morning when the frost was on the cypress that carven image would disappear! The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration Hardy opened the leather case, placing it upon the grass, and I saw the two derringers lying against the plush lining, deadly looking weapons, with long steel-blue barrels, and strangely carven stocks. Love under Fire Queen Ysabeau lolled in her carven chair, considering the comely gentleman who stood before her, fettered, at the point of shameful death. Chivalry Though after the death of her husband, Sir William Berkeley, this lady became Mrs. Philip Ludwell, yet she clung to the greater name and insisted that her long sleep should be under its carven pomp. Virginia: the Old Dominion With a sudden sharp effort he turns, and crosses with passionate appeal to the shrine, his arm uplifted towards the carven Christ as if he warded off some accusation. The Piper Wilbur Cowan sat in a carven chair near a corner of the beautiful desk, hitching it forward to rest his arms on the desk's top. The Wrong Twin Accordingly he used also to carry about a carven image of her in full armor and he made her name his watchword in almost all the greatest dangers. Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). The handle was carven and the horn was clear as honey. Master Skylark As on a carven statue Men gaze, I gazed on him; I seemed on fire with mad desire To kiss that offered limb: My ruin, Aphroditè, Thus followed from my whim. Theocritus, translated into English Verse Not mumbled prayers; Not greed and carven tombs, not misers' candles; No offerings, more, from men that feed on men; Eternal psalms and endless cruelties! The Piper The tall Madonna lilies flourished like sculpture about the porch, and he admired their tall stems and leaves and carven blossoms, thinking how they would die without strife, without complaint. The Lake They seem to melt and to escape inspection, yet they remain fixed on the memory as firmly as forms in carven basalt. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti In the wainscot of the dining-hall there was a carven panel just above the Spanish chest. Master Skylark Of carven figures there are several besides the standard bearer already mentioned. Northumberland Yesterday and To-day None have I left to lift the sword, or to cleanse the carven cup of price, beaker bright. Beowulf For every statue, cut gem, shrine, carven screen, or what else might please the eye of a learned clerk, there are a good hundred to our one. The White Company Sir Daniel’s residence in Shoreby was a tall, commodious, plastered mansion, framed in carven oak, and covered by a low-pitched roof of thatch. The Black Arrow Carew, sitting there behind the carven prompter's-screen, put down his head between his hands and listened. Master Skylark Behind him the tense figure of the girl, motionless as a carven statue. Return of Tarzan A henchman attended, carried the carven cup in hand, served the clear mead. Beowulf Occasionally he glanced at Tarzan; but the ape-man sat upon his haunches, like a carven image, his eyes fixed upon the ground. Tarzan of the Apes On each side below it, were low carven stools. The Moon Pool The windows were high up in the wall, with their heads among the black roof-beams, which with their grotesquely carven brackets were half lost in the dusk. Master Skylark Portals and pillars and buttresses and cornices are all covered with carven images of Our Lord and the blessed Saints. The Story of Mankind Jewel-encrusted women lolled even thus early upon the carven balconies before their sleeping apartments. Thuvia, Maid of Mars The hour Is this for desperate emprise: now, with hearts Heroic, enter ye yon carven horse, So to attain the goal of this stern war. The Fall of Troy The priest on high Raises the thing that Christ's own flesh enforms; And down the Gothic nave the crowd flows by And through the portal's carven entry swarms. Poems No god is there of carven stone To watch with still approving eyes My thoughts like steady incense rise; I dream and weep alone. Helen of Troy and Other Poems Sleep like a white mist on the rotting paintings of cupids and gods on the ceiling; Sleep on the carven shields and knots at the foot of the bed, Oozing, blurring outlines, obliterating colors, Death. Young Adventure, a Book of Poems There was then a well in the midst of this enclosure, with a granite ledge around it carven with lilies; and upon this she leaned, looking down into the water. The Certain Hour Slowly she walks to the balustrade, Idly notes how the blossoms fade In the sun's caress; then crosses where The shadow shelters a carven chair. A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass She reddened: "He was of a most goodly body," she said, "fair-eyed, and of a face well carven; his speech kind and gentle." Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair Amid picturesque and disordered fragments of a hundred ages, in a great carven chair placed before a towering statue of the Buddha, sat a hand-cuffed man. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu And there was wine there in well-hooped kegs, and wooden cups fairly carven, and raiment of fine white wool for those twain, broidered in strange but beauteous fashion with the feathers of bright-hued birds. The Well at the World's End: a tale There was no ticket office, nothing but a couple of whittled and carven benches. McTeague These creatures you have seen are animals carven and wrought into new shapes. The Island of Doctor Moreau "This is a carven flagon," said Sara, arranging tendrils of the wreath about the mug. A Little Princess; being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time In the center of it was a huge carven bowl, with the glistening gleam of ferns and the red and purple of rare orchids, glowing from a light hidden somewhere in their midst. The Jungle But the Sage led through it all unfumbling, and moreover now and again they came on that carven token of the sword and the bough. The Well at the World's End: a tale But to the Jews such a thing seemed highly sacrilegious and they would not desecrate their Holiest of Holies by the carven image of a Roman potentate. Ancient Man The Beginning of Civilizations Three feet off, on cushioned moss, As if cast away, Homely wood with carven cross, Rough and rude it lay! The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 One's last view before the door closes noiselessly is of a bay-window opposite, set with cathedral glass casement-lights, which sheds soft colours upon the hall-bench of carven stone and upon the tessellated floor. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation The hands that gripped the wheel so savagely were as steady as if carven out of stone. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Still green about its ample porch The English ivy twines, Trained back to show in English oak The herald's carven signs. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Also there were marble fountains into which water splashed from the mouths of carven lions, and here and there arbours with stone seats, whereon were laid soft cushions of many colours. Fair Margaret It is carven on stone in the gloomy caverns of TIME. The Gentleman from Indiana And so it always meets her now; The tomb wherein at last he lies Shall bear such carven lips and brow, All save the ever-burning eyes. Ride to the Lady And Other Poems I love the mossy quietness That grows upon the great stone flags, The dark tree-ferns, the staghorn ferns, The prehistoric, antlered stags That carven stand and stare among The silent, ferny wilderness. Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh And there were jests, wholesome as harvest ale, Of homely habit, bred of hearts that dared Judgment of laughter under the eternal eye: This frolic wisdom was his carven owl. Georgian Poetry 1913-15 His face was as if carven out of oak, set and grey-brown. The Trespasser Mélite bent over him; for as he spoke he had lain back in a tall carven chair by the east window. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages That carven block of stone has had a curious effect upon me. His Hour He stole about, and the carven shell He hid in his bosom away. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood Pull down some art-offending thing Of carven stone, and in its stead Let splendid bronze commemorate These men, the living and the dead. A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 Surely he who did thy carven chin had a mind to a master-work and did no less. The Water of the Wondrous Isles She stood alone upon the dais which supported the vacant throne, one hand resting upon its carven arm. The Strong Arm Nor will I crouch with bottom upraised, like carven lions on a knife-handle. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 One night when the wind was wailing about, And the sea was speckled wi' foam, From room to room she went in and out And she came on her carven comb. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood So doing, his eyes sought a certain carven oak panel set in an ebony frame. The Far Horizon The flush of her sleep gave delicacy to her carven beauty; she looked fragile and tremulous; it would seem that a little more pity of herself would bring her to tears. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution For, under the carven fingers, the marble folds of the robe over the heart were faintly glowing from some inward radiance. Between Friends Nor will I crouch with bottom upraised, like carven lions on a knife-handle. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 From carven walls above me, smile lovers; many a pair. India's Love Lyrics Even then, in the first push of conscious intelligence, the carven picture had spoken to him as something masterful, for all its rigidity and sadness, and very strong to help. The Far Horizon And I said:— 'Gods of still evenings and quiet nights, go not from earth and leave not Your carven shrines, and all men shall worship You still. Time and the Gods So saying, Jocelyn began to climb by gnarled ivy and carven buttress. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn He entered St. Mark's, and of the delicacy of ornamentation, of the balance of the architecture, he saw nothing; neither the tracery of carven column nor the aërial perspective of the groined arches. Modern Painting All day long I lie Watching the changes of the far-off sky Behind the lattice-work of carven stone. India's Love Lyrics It is a doll: just a small carven and painted head without a body,—the body being represented by a tiny robe only, attached to the neck. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Then on the altar of Zungari a priest had set a figure squat, carven in purple agate, saying: "Yazun is god." Time and the Gods A seated Jizo carven in granite, holding in one hand the mystic jewel by virtue of which all wishes may be fulfilled; in the other his shakujo, or pilgrim's staff. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series And alone were left the lion-headed gods that were carven out of the walls; silent they stood, and their rocky arms were folded. A Dreamer's Tales Through centuries together, in the carven stone they lie, In the glow of golden weather, and endless azure sky. India's Love Lyrics And the whole is held in place with curious ornamental combs, and shot through with long fine pins of gold, silver, nacre, transparent tortoise-shell, or lacquered wood, with cunningly carven heads. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series On this rock a prophet hath his Temple and is called the Prophet of Journeys, and hath carven in a southern window smiling along the camel track all gods that are benignant to caravans. Time and the Gods There is shell-work jewellery indescribable, things that Japanese girls love, enchantments in mother-of-pearl, hair-pins carven in a hundred forms, brooches, necklaces. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Woe to these walls and the carven things upon them. A Dreamer's Tales Cruel things that man may not name, Naked here, without fear or shame, Laughed in the carven stone. India's Love Lyrics It has the carven look that one wants. A Fountain Sealed Not any more, not any more at all shall we drift up the carven hall to dance before the King. Time and the Gods Upon the pedestal below the Three Apes are carven; and the face of an ape appears also upon the front of the god's tiara. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series But look! the blood flows down, and after it has trickled away, there, deep carven on the horns, still appears the sin, i.e. the sin is not expiated by the sinner's sacrifice. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah And a tale came forth of the woven slain Sequent and whole, Of flint and bronze, trowel and hod, The wheel and the plane, The carven stone and the graven clod Painted and baked. Toward the Gulf He sat down in a tall, carven gothic chair,—the furniture of one of his pictures,—and rested his head against its high back and looked at the priest across the room. A Foregone Conclusion Down carven corridors and rooms,—where couch And chairs lie shattered and black shadows crouch Torch-pierced with fear,—a sound of swords draws near— The stir of searching steel. Poems Now and then a bat moved in the shadows—now and then a gleam of light came on the ranks of carven figures. A Dog of Flanders In the richly appointed dining-room—a glitter of china and glass and a mass of carven oak—the table was laid for two. Annie Kilburn : a Novel And here is a peristyle Whose carven columns are pink as the long updrawn Stalks of tulips bedded in April snow. Toward the Gulf Allan drew at the chain, and a small golden cylinder was revealed, curiously carven. Darkness and Dawn I have transposed the two incidents, as in her version Tommy Grimes was a clever carver and carried about with him a carven leg. English Fairy Tales I shall have fond and enduring memories of that sanctuary—the travertine of its artfully carven fabric glowing orange-tawny in the sunset; of the forsaken plain beyond, full of ghostly phantoms of the past. Old Calabria The carven bedposts were Highlanders; the bed was a litter slung between four of them; the touch was hers. The Yeoman Adventurer For the most part they were statuesque, carven, dead. Men, Women, and Boats Then was the arras drawn aside And girt with wake lights drear, Beneath the archway's carven vault, Was borne a white-crossed bier. Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses Their glory fills the mind with rapture but for a while, and it learns that they are, like carven idols, wholly careless and indifferent to our fate. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Were I tyrant of Manfredonia, I would build me a fair marble fountain here, with a carven assemblage of nymphs and sea-monsters spouting water from their lusty throats, and plashing in its rivulets. Old Calabria For ten minutes he sat like a carven thing on his haunches. The Grizzly King There were two storeys above the ground-floor, and above them a projecting eave of carven stone that threatened the uplifted eye like a menace. Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days Retiring carefully to one of two quaintly carven stone blocks placed at the foot of the oak-tree, on which, doubtless, many a monk had sat in meditation, he set himself to get his fishing-gear together. Dawn He found the first stone shaped like a salmon head; the second like a kamas root, and the third, to his great joy, was the carven image of an elk's head. Oregon, Washington and Alaska; Sights and Scenes for the Tourist Just above the boxes and where the high lights fall Looketh down a carven face from out the gilded wall. The Miracle and Other Poems For at least five minutes he stood looking down into the valley, and sniffing the wind, as motionless as though carven out of rock. The Grizzly King "Do you know this?" said the queen to Tancred, looking at a statue in golden ivory, and then at the young Englishman, whose clear-cut features and hyacinthine locks curiously resembled those of the carven image. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction And when he looked again he saw it was that ring of carven emerald that he had given to Sir Lamorack as aforetold. The Story of the Champions of the Round Table Most wonderful of all, as I saw it, a single pinnacle of the Cloth Hall still standing above the wreck, slender and exquisitely carven, pointing like an accusing finger to the eternal tribunal. Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough Belovèd and lonely one, Who feared not dying: Gone in another's stead Alone to the hungry dead: Light be the carven stone Above thee lying! Alcestis It represented an "airy, fairy Lilian" of eighteen, or thereabouts, lolling coquettishly, fan in hand, in an antique, high-backed chair, with "carven imageries," and a tasselled cushion. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 The ancient tapestry beside the carven balustrade of the staircase remained, but it had been cleaned, and even mended. Peter's Mother There fell a brief silence while the man who had done the shooting and the men about him, no less than the figure lying in the snow, were as motionless as so many carven statues. The Everlasting Whisper For a few moments Kazan stood as though carven of rock. Kazan Prodigious stories were told of his hoard of gold, and some of the less enlightened thought that even the outlandish ornaments of the balustrade over the portico were carven silver. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 Once he had followed, and stood amazed to see it vanish through the carven panelling, though door could he find none. Beltane the Smith The strained lines on Handy Solomon's carven features relaxed little by little. The Mystery Those who have followed the painful wanderings of heart-oppressed Hilda to the carven confessional in the great church, where she found peace, will recognize the amply unfolded flower of this seed. Hawthorne and His Circle At the conclusion, her chin rested in the soft palm of her hand, and the hand, unjewelled, was white as marble just carven, and, like the arm, a wonder of grace. The Prince of India — Volume 02 The lid was a slab of the finest white marble carven into a perfect model of Solomon's Temple. The Prince of India — Volume 01 She sat in a great carven chair, her arms outstretched across the table before her, her face bowed low between, and the setting sun made a glory of her golden hair. Beltane the Smith In that glimpse, I realized what Homer meant by his 'carven ivory.' Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 Old porches carven when the trees, Were seedlings yellow in the sun Five hundred years ago that bright Upon the quaint old city shone. Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems And I shall seal it up With spice and salt, In a carven silver cup, In a deep vault. Nets to Catch the Wind The arms and legs of the stools here and there on the rug were carven in grotesque imitation of reptiles and animals of the ultra dragonish mode. The Prince of India — Volume 01 Beltane's long scabbard struck the carven panelling, a soft blow that yet echoed and re-echoed in vaulted arch and dim roof, and, glancing swiftly up, Sir Benedict beheld him. Beltane the Smith They tweaked his tail on carven misericords, and in the mystery play he was invariably cast for the clown. Nonsenseorship Day after day you buy your sunrise from my heart, and you find your love carven into the image of my life. Fruit-Gathering |
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