Word: carven
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...this street, an age old air of dignity and of sociability; here was a carven stone, fraught with history; there a quickly opened door let out a stream of light and gallant voices. All around me--I knew and I could feel it in the air--flowed the choicest hours of college. Here were the dormitories and club-houses, here were the college papers and magazines, here were the clubs of all kinds, and some of the athletic buildings. Such a mixture of work and fun I sensed that the breeze felt crisp and joyful with youth. This...
...first important discovery made by the expedition was a cave-chapel, dated at the sixth century. This was important because of the great carven elephants that stood at each corner of the central care pillar, and because of its situation on the trade route from India and the West...
...Marchioness of Cholmondeley looks out of stone with bland, blind eyes. Behind the eyes, under the suave casque of carven hair are, beyond doubt, the thoughts of the Marchioness of Cholmondeley...
...Story. It all began because The Parliament of Erl was to some extent imaginative. 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. They desired to be ruled by a magic lord. And though he feared them foolish, he agreed, and sent forth Alvaric, who was his son, to find and wed the King of Elfland's Daughter...
...carven ivory, that shone like snow...