Some carved out what resembled small principalities.
Elaborately carved cornice and mantel friezes and frets represented the most skilled craftsmanship of the period.
Twist-carved balusters were placed on the steps, and running floral and foliated carving decorated the risers or step-ends of many of the stairs.
Vast estates had been carved out of the wilderness and large plantations were everywhere the rule.
Carved and hidden newel posts were common, and sometimes the pattern of the posts reappeared in elaborate friezes below the landing.
By his skill as a surgeon he carved out for himself a place and name such as only real human service can claim or is ever likely to attain.
In my jacket pocket I held the hypodermic, one of Schree design, different from a modern medical hypodermic only in that it was decorated with incut figures of glorified Jivros, carved in the crystalline cylinder, and the metal was of gold.
Holaf still remained by my side, and his hand did not leave the oddly-carved butt of the tapered tube-gun.
I had no eyes for the score or so of Schrees that surrounded the massive carved chair, even though I was curious about their difference from men.
It's in a carved black frame, set in the middle of a bookcase.
Already the carved cedar-wood blinds inside the windows shut out the light of day.
The ceiling also was of carved cedar, painted with ancient designs in rich colours.
I saw him snatch her up against his breast; and then I turned to Marian Tostini, who had not moved from her place beside the big carved chair.
The arch and the wall on either side had been most richly carved by the mason and the sculptor, but my attention was most attracted by the door itself.
On both sides of the door stood two giants carved in black stone, with drawn swords in their hands.
It was a good enough charm, made of ivory and carvedinto a very hideous face.
There was something very appealing about the sweet face looking out from the carved gilt frame, a certain peaceful calmness in her expression.
There were mirrors and high-backed carved chairs from Venice.
This triangle they filled with a thinner stone carved with two lions.
A few precious things had been uncovered,--a few of bronze and clay, a few of gold, some carved gravestones.
But they found only broken pieces of carved marble--no gold.
We look at the carved gems of their seal rings and see them fighting or killing lions.
It was evidently the dwelling of the chief of the tribe; and the beautifully carved implements which hung to the walls, and the skulls and scalps that adorned the roof, showed that its possessor was a distinguished warrior.
One of them was a young man of tall end muscular form, whose dress and richly-carved weapons would have proclaimed him to be an Indian warrior and chieftain, had not his curling brown hair, and deep blue eyes, spoken of a Saxon lineage.
The oldcarved wooden cupboard for gold and silver articles, used in the church service, is fine work.
In a little chapel are buried the remains of the old friars; here also is a beautiful old carved confessional.
Many years ago Humboldt cut a rectangular piece of bark from the old trunk and on the smooth surface thus exposed carved an inscription with his name.
But then you pass through the carved doors of a magnificent juba screen, and the bareness disappears.
Many of them, indeed, are of impressive grandeur, withcarved casings and ponderous doors.
The cloister gallery, which was not built until the twelfth century, is so permeated with decay that one almost fears to touch its delicately carved ornamentations lest they crumble in his hands.
We stood in front of it, gazing in the dim evening light at the crumbling carved faces of its facade, peering through into its ancient court where there are now apartments to let, wondering as to its history.
Such elaboration of turrets with carved leafwork and symbolism, such richness of incrustation and detail, did, in fact, suggest some fantastic and fabulous culture.
Except the slab, the tomb is in white marble carved with symbolic decorations.
We stood facing an exquisite mullioned window whose carved stone outlines were entirely new, yet delicately and finely cut, certainly at a cost of many thousand francs.
The whole was built facing a steep rocky hillside, which was carvedinto a semi-circle of stone seats, in the old fashion which Rome borrowed from Greece.
We also went into the gothic chapel to see some handsomely carved wainscoting, with a ceiling to match.
But in her honor the master rebuilt the front of his dwelling and had carved upon it the heads of the men she had so promptly and justly punished.
Perhaps the attraction was the suggestion of office which the beautifully carved mahogany desk gave it.
The man moved suddenly across to his desk, and one hand fell heavily upon the carved mahogany of it.
And every day his feet turned in the same direction--down the long entrance boulevard, through the mighty gates, along the strip of carved slabs, to that piled wilderness where Rhadamanthus sat monumentally.
As we proceeded across the broad balcony, I was astonished to discover that the outside walls of this building were entirely covered with beautifully carved reliefs, representing the inventions of Sarraccus.
The exterior of the choir, with its four radiating chapels, its jutting cornices supported by modillions and columns with carved capitals, and its mosaic decoration of black and white stones, is the most interesting part of the exterior.
There are two good museums containing mosaics, inscriptions, carved and sculptured stones, and many smaller remains, for the town was the Roman Corinium or Durocornovium Dobunorum.
As he spoke he pointed to the small carved door in the oak panelling, and the Earl's eyes followed the direction of his hand, but with no expression of surprise.
The furniture, too, was good though ancient, and of the same carvedoak as the panelling.
It consisted of a large table, and a smaller one, eight or nine large high-backed chairs, and several curious carved cabinets.
The room itself was a cheerful and a pleasant room, with a vaulted ceiling richly ornamented; while the thick walls of the tower were lined with oak, very deep in hue, and finely carved with Gothic tracery.
The rich carved oak wainscotting was all in flames.
Even after she had been seated some minutes in a high-backed carved oak chair, which projected over her head like a canopy, she had not given him a glance.
He had told her long ago that they would have separate rooms, but his must be somewhere near, perhaps on the other side of that glossy white carved door.
A key was handed out, and they ascended the carved oak staircase, which was covered with a thick cherry-coloured carpet.
He first made his reverence to the sacred picture in the corner, then courteously saluted the starost and his wife, who, without speaking, placed some bread and salt on a carvedwooden trencher and offered them to him.
We first entered into a furniture warehouse, some 300 yards in length, and filled with Chinese bedsteads carved and gilt in a very splendid manner.
The porch was supported by pillars of stone beautifullycarved with figures of griffins and snakes.
In the court-yard were two lions carved out of a purple marble, and in the middle of the yard was an immense brazen ram highly ornamented with hieroglyphics and allegorical designs.
The roof, low and vaulted, is supported on two short, thick granite columns, one having a roughly carved capital which is well worth study, the other none at all.
Then the beans were divided and dressed with oil and salt, the bread was carved into three parts with a great clasp-knife from the old woman’s pocket, and we made a very excellent and nourishing meal.
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