carven
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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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In his curiously carven and vivid luggage were layers of sumptuous fabrics, great coils and shining lumps of jewelry.
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Conducted by the long scarlet-robed figure of Cardinal Merry del Val, Archpriest of the Basilica, they admired painted ceilings and gigantic carven cherubs, knelt above the Tomb of the Apostles.
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Yellow-garmented Buddhist priests chanted prayers, thumbed beads, whirred carven prayer wheels.
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Figures stood there at its head, carven with cunning in forms human and bestial, but all corrupt and loathsome.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
