carven

Example Sentences

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The king sat by the central fireplace, hunched up on a carven stool by the table.

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The eyes were hollow and the carven beard was broken, but about the high stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold.

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In it were no tables, but a bright fire was burning in a great hearth between the carven pillars upon either side.

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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.

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There before him was the great carven dais where the old lady had sat, her fragile, tended body wrapped in silvery satin.

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