Its natural impassivity was so greatly increased by the presence of the colored spectacles that my study was as profitless as if I had scrutinized the face of a carven Buddha.
Before this table was a high-backed, heavily carven chair.
His heart playing a sudden drum-beat, he threw the carven timber from him and bounded to his feet.
After-wards, he sat in the Scriptorium, his face like a carven image, the sacred Schedule in his hands.
The laws of men are carven upon stone, the laws of heaven upon the heart.
On the corresponding stones above the upper windows in each of the center towers is a carven emblem of the All-seeing Eye.
The keystone of the lower window bears on a carven scroll "I am Alpha and Omega.
Illustration] Then a cameo face, carven in on a ground Of that shadowy hair where the roses are wound; And the gleam of a smile O as fair and as faint And as sweet as the masters of old used to paint Round the lips of their favorite saint!
Nor will I crouch with bottom upraised, likecarven lions on a knife-handle.
On irremediable wrong I shrink not To pile immortal ruin, there to lie As trophies on a carven tomb: nor less For that no memory of my deed survive, Nor any eye to see, nor tongue to tell.
She kneeled there before the carven Christ in an anguish of doubt.
The white marble in its carven semblance of him lies above his grave in the Silver Chapel; but in the heart of his wife he lives for ever, and with him lives a sleepless and an eternal remorse.
The chief's seat no longer boasted carven pillars or embroidered pillows, but it missed none of these when the great bear skin had been flung over the cushions of fragrant pine-needles.
For at least five minutes he stood looking down into the valley, and sniffing the wind, as motionless as though carven out of rock.
For ten minutes he sat like a carven thing on his haunches.
It matters little now whether the archbishop Rodrigo's ivory-carven car drawn by mules carried his unhappy namesake to the fatal field of Guadalete or the legendary steed flashing its way through mailed ranks.
The Gothic ornamentation will guide you as to date, or mayhap an exquisitely carven Moorish inscription in the wood-work of a half-ruined wall.
When some good knight had done one noble deed His arms were carven only, but if twain His arms were blazoned also, but if none The shield was blank and bare, without a sign, Saving the name beneath.
All of England's best and bravest were there, and they sat in the carven stalls in St. George's Chapel, with their gorgeous banners drooping over them.
Then among them strode Beowulf, carrying in one hand the great head of the sea woman and in the other the blistered hilt of the sword, snake- shaped, carven with the legend of its forging.
And up to the gold-hasped door there ran, On a carven ivory stair, `The darling herself in rosy silk, With pearls in her yellow hair.
All about there was a kind of holy smell, of wood andcarven stone and incense-smoke.
And here is a peristyle Whose carven columns are pink as the long updrawn Stalks of tulips bedded in April snow.
And a tale came forth of the woven slain Sequent and whole, Of flint and bronze, trowel and hod, The wheel and the plane, The carven stone and the graven clod Painted and baked.
Faire tapestry and carven oake, and six high windowes in the syde of him, and one faire windowe in ye gables, and under hym a gallery where were singing men to please the King's majestie, and cunning minstrelsie.
And Wells being new and faire with carven stone, our Abbot was moved to beautify our howse.
And there were two altares on either side and much carven woode very blacke which was took away for the panellae.
The partitions were 10 feet, forty in length and twenty wide," with round vaults: ribs carven with fruit and many colours.
No charm of color, nor of change, nor glow Of blue noon sky, thy carven work doth show; Let dusk bees visit it—or sip the breath From thy chill marble buds.
Long there Pale Lilith looked, as coldly still and fair As carven stone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carven" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
