The modern lover is like a sculptor who takes an ordinary block of marble andcarves a goddess out of it.
Nature carves with her own hands the brain which holds the creative imagination, but she casts the over-sensitive creatures in scores from the same mould.
In the Carves oven, the earliest of the by-product ovens, the heating flues are arranged horizontally in parallel series along the entire length of the side walls, the gas being introduced from both ends but at different levels.
Simon of Manchester, who added a continuous air "recuperator" heated by the spent flame; this Simon-Carves system has been extensively adopted in Great Britain.
My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Sidenote: His sword carves the head from some, and cuts the arms of others in twain.
Thus in my [s]aull Rolinge al my wo, [Sidenote: The sword of love carves my heart.
He carves or shapes nothing for its own sake; there is little in the work that can stand on independent grounds as pure art.
He elaborates no theme, he builds nothing, he carves nothing, but makes himself a source and centre of pulsing, vital energy.
Does he make it the quarry from which he carves statues or builds temples?
Between this outer shaft and inner door is a square pilaster, of which the architect carves one side, and lets the other alone.
And instead of this decorative evangelical preacher of a lion, with staring eyes, and its paw on a gospel, he carves you a quite brutal and maternal lioness, with affectionate eyes, and paw set on her cub.
The 123rd novel of Sacchetti, in which a young man carves a capon in a whimsical fashion, finds its original in the following Talmudic story: The Capon-Carver.
The carpenter takes the first watch, and to amuse himself he carves the figure of a woman out of a log of wood.
Stephen's father carves the turkey and tries to stop the mouths of the angry man and woman with food.
And unlike his younger contemporaries, he still carves out the whole block of the great classics, sonatas, and concertos.
When the little one goes away the parent copies its face in rude colors, or carves its form in marble.
The surgeon ignorant of anatomy, he says, "carves the human body as a blind man carves wood.
When stands the pole-star clear before the mast, Then to the Bosphorus look we, and the main Which carves the coast of Scythia.
Like all persons in her condition, she is monstrously clever; carves the most beautiful little groups in boxwood, and models in clay and plaster.
Like the Indian, who first carves and then worships his god, he has gone through the old process of fabrication, and now gazes on his handiwork with the eyes of a true believer.
Finds therein the fated whiting; Carves the whiting, finds a blue-ball In the third cave of his body.
Carves ovens it is, as I have said, upward of 75 per cent.
When his friend carves him the best morsel, he murmurs that it is an happy feast wherein each one may cut for himself.
He differs from a just historian as a joiner does from a carpenter; the one does things plainly and substantially for use, and the other carves and polishes merely for show and ornament.
The great French surgeon's attitude toward anatomy and dissection can be judged from his famous expression that "the surgeon ignorant of anatomy carves the human body as a blind man carves wood.
And there are other people who will tell you that Greek art is fine, because it is not true; and carves a lion's skin so as to look not at all like a lion's skin.
Now there are some people who will tell you that Greek art is fine, because it is true; and because it carves men's faces as like men's as it can.
It is running water, aided by other agents, which carves the land into hill and valley, which produces gorge and lake, only ultimately to fill up the lake and plane away the gorge.
At the head he carves in bas-relief the figure of the good Samaritan tending the brother fallen by the way, and underneath the letters, "In Remembrance of John Ingerfield.
So the stone remains a little while unfinished; till the same hand carves thereon, a few weeks later, "And of Anne, his Wife.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
