At times so slight was my hold upon the rounded surfaces of the
carving's edges that a sneeze, a cough, or even a slight gust of wind would have dislodged me and sent me hurtling to the depths below.
Beautiful prospectuses, sir, all flourished over with Gothic devices in red ink, saying it was a disgrace not to restore the church and repair the famous
carvings, and so on.
In Lucerne, too, the wood
carvings of other sorts, which had been so pleasant to look upon when one saw them occasionally at home, soon began to fatigue us.
I have seen him smile in his quiet way because I had looked for the fourth time towards the
carving squire.
Her right hand skimmed slightly the end of the table, and when she had passed on towards the sofa the carving knife had vanished without the slightest sound from the side of the dish.
It was the handle of the domestic carving knife with nothing strange about it but its position at right angles to Mr Verloc's waistcoat and the fact that something dripped from it.
Before passing the threshold, I paused to admire a quantity of grotesque
carving lavished over the front, and especially about the principal door; above which, among a wilderness of crumbling griffins and shameless little boys, I detected the date '1500,' and the name 'Hareton Earnshaw.' I would have made a few comments, and requested a short history of the place from the surly owner; but his attitude at the door appeared to demand my speedy entrance, or complete departure, and I had no desire to aggravate his impatience previous to inspecting the penetralium.
But what is most needful, sirs, is that each of us should choose the name of the shepherdess he means to glorify in his verses, and that we should not leave a tree, be it ever so hard, without writing up and
carving her name on it, as is the habit and custom of love-smitten shepherds."
The young men and warriors produced their spears, paddles, canoe-gear, battle-clubs, and war-conchs, and occupied themselves in
carving, all sorts of figures upon them with pointed bits of shell or flint, and adorning them, especially the war-conchs, with tassels of braided bark and tufts of human hair.
I loitered about awhile, and then, for want of something better to do, fell to
carving a railing with my knife.
My writing is something after the fashion of those little baskets and
carving which Liza Mertsalova used to sell me from the prisons.
But it's no matter; he should not shut up my path if he were fifty baronets melted into one and living in a hundred Chesney Wolds, one within another, like the ivory balls in a Chinese
carving. The fellow, by his agent, or secretary, or somebody, writes to me 'Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet, presents his compliments to Mr.
They're only allowed to use chainsaws to produce their sculpture and burners to add finishing details to the
carvings.
'The days when foreign tourists especially from Buddhist countries came here to buy Buddhist
carvings and sculptures are long gone, and where we earned well from selling these sculptures, we are now
carving tombs and other decorative items so we can feed our families,' he added.
Today, the long gone city's splendour lives on in stunning rock
carvings depicting Hindu deities.
