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

Too much it was: I withered in the breath; And lay again ten thousand lifeless years; And then my soul shook, woke—and saw three biers Chiselled of solid night majestically.

From Song-Surf by Rice, Cale Young

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

And all The prisoners and the prizes at those isles They left behind them, taking what they would From out their carven cabins,—glimmering silks, Chiselled Toledo blades, and broad doubloons.

From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred