Looking for sentences and phrases with the word carven? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Early Gothic masons also began to observe such natural forms as plants more closely, as is evident in the realistically carven clusters of leaves that adorn the capitals of columns.
Her carven features luminous with famished, immature idealism, she flits about in her grey shift like the premonitory ghost of someone whose life was allowed to waste away, permanently on hold.
Examples from Classical Literature
A henchman attended, carried the carven cup in hand, served the clear mead.
And she pointed with her fan to a carven chair that was placed near her feet.
A fish lying on shore was turned by the moon into ivory with carven scales.
The man micht be a carven image, and Leevie no better nor a shifty in the pook.
There is something in the carven box which the shrieking oracle commended to me.
Look at yon carven shield,Above the chantry door, No blazoned pride bedecks its field,But emblems five sprent o'er.
They tweaked his tail on carven misericords, and in the mystery play he was invariably cast for the clown.
The eyelids with their long lashes looked as if they were carven.
He sat there like a carven figure with his face in his hand.
Along the foot of the balustrade was carven the revolt of the Titans.
The thin carven features of the children were emotionless, waiting.
He stole about, and the carven shell He hid in his bosom away.
In the center of it was a huge carven bowl, with the glistening gleam of ferns and the red and purple of rare orchids, glowing from a light hidden somewhere in their midst.
The challenge, explains Carven, is that diesel engines demand small amounts of diesel fuel for ignition.
He went into the bedroom and he saw Carven, the big shot detective.
