chiselled

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Chiselled balconies spill from one level to the next, connected by steps in one continuous terraced landscape.

From The Guardian • Nov. 4, 2016

Chiselled into the outcrops of dolomite limestone that dot the cape, the inscriptions have provided invaluable insight into the private lives of those who inhabited archaic and classical Greece.

From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2014

And now his face, that perfect seemed before, Chiselled by these two careful artists, wore A look exalted, which the spirit gives When soul has conquered, and the body lives Subservient to its bidding.

From Maurine and Other Poems by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Chiselled, sounds as though her olfactory organ was of marble or granite, doesn't it?

From A Terrible Secret by Fleming, May Agnes

Chiselled on one of the end boulders was the name of Alix Windom Crown, with the date of her birth and her death, with the line: "Rock of Ages Cleft for Me."

From Quill's Window by McCutcheon, George Barr