carven
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In his curiously carven and vivid luggage were layers of sumptuous fabrics, great coils and shining lumps of jewelry.
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In their ruddy jackets of leather, the twelve members appeared before their stately lord where he sat in a carven chair in his long red room.
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Most noticeable evidence: a change in manikins from a shiny waxwork sisterhood with open-eyed little smiles to papier-m�ch�, wire mesh or carven effigies of the dangling, mask-faced glamor girl.
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But Justice, a carven figure in a twisted courtroom, is relentless.
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And next Alkinoos called upon his sons, Halios and Laodamas, to show the dance no one could do as well as they—handling a purple ball carven by Polybos.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
