carven
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Yellow-garmented Buddhist priests chanted prayers, thumbed beads, whirred carven prayer wheels.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Justice, a carven figure in a twisted courtroom, is relentless.
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
The eyes were flat and the mouth with its small up-curve at the corners was carven.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
