As a sword carven with keen floral gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Nations] Reference

With carven work; embossed with pale leaves light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lilith The Legend of the First Woman] Reference

Meder ran to it with a cry and caressed the carven arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

It had an oddly softening effect upon his rather carven face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference

His face hardened even more until it looked like carven stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [At The Spaniard's Convenience]

His dark, straight-featured face was impassive as carven stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference

Worn just beneath yon carven form, that bends in pain and love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference

Chee paid scant attention to rich draperies and carven pillars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Book of Stormgate]

And each temple was nobly carven and wrought with statues and pictures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'] Reference

The stone sides were carven with scenes from the rites practiced there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

She lay like a carven statue, her face marble white in the clear morning light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference

The man micht be a carven image, and Leevie no better nor a shifty in the pook.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom Castle] Reference

Into old carven chests I dived, opening package after package of mouldy papers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference

He carried a staff carven intricately from wood so dark that it was almost black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

The inscrutable eyes set in the rigid face gave her the likeness to some carven thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hippodrome] Reference

Simin crawled out from the heart of the stone, upwards through the long carven tunnel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oberheim (Voices)] Reference

He lurched up with his burdens and put his left foot on the carven arm as the next step.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

Lanterns hung from the carven tree branches, casting a soft golden light over the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference

One of the Queen's heads dipped into a bowl, came up with a small carven doodad in its mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

For a full two minutes he stood as if carven, while the doctors and the chiefs moaned dismally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch-Doctors] Reference

Where had he caught that word in carven letters twined among lilies above the marble staircase?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Witness] Reference

He even ignored the passive and meditative repose, immemorial on the carven countenances of Egypt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

She cackled again as she roughly pushed carven chairs out of her way to sweep under the worktable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragon Drums]

Their young men are tall and heavy of stature and wonderful in the casting of their great carven spears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference

With whip and spur he was vehemently plying a horse that stubbornly stood as motionless as carven stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

In just such a way did Jill unfold her treasures to the Arab, sitting as some carven image in the shadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desert Love] Reference

With the eyes of the company upon him, the duke's fool impassively studied the carven figure on his stick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

She raised her hand, and her fingers looked carven white in the moonlight, though by daylight they were brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montlivet] Reference

'Little do I resemble the figures of Elendil and Isildur as they stand carven in their majesty in the halls of Denethor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fellowship of the Ring]

The boys examined Bob's silver-inlaid kris, with its carven handle of bone, and it was indeed a trophy worth carrying home.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pirate Shark] Reference

Nonetheless, that squeak and gibber always rather spoiled the otherwise impressive effect of flower crown and carven staff.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Book of Stormgate]

And it was covered with a plateau of massive silver weighing five hundred pounds -- five hundred pounds, mind you, chased and carven.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming of the King] Reference

Masanath noted with a little trepidation that her door was very near to the portals over which was the winged sun, carven and portentous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference