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Example sentences for "carved wood"

  • I had small electric light bulbs fitted among the flowers, mounted them on carved wood brackets on each side of a good mantel mirror and worked out the rest of the room from them.

  • The lighting fixtures are of carved wood, painted in soft colors to match the garlands on the furniture, with shirred shades of lavender silk.

  • The lighting-fixtures are of carved wood, pointed in polychrome.

  • There are some very fine examples of wall clocks in this collection which might be copied in carved wood by the students of manual training schools, if the manufacturers refuse to be interested.

  • The florid decorations around the statue are of carved wood.

  • Doorway of Carved Wood in the Sacristy of S.

  • Footnote: Bones can be cast in plaster quite as easily as anything else, and often take the place of carved wood.

  • The last process of all is mounting, by means of a model skeleton of carved wood, supplemented by iron rods.

  • The keyhole is concealed under a movable cover of carved wood, which looks like a part of the carving when dropped in place.

  • The most important objects in the room are the mantelpiece and the bed, the former of carved wood, its ornate character significant of the wealth of the owner, and its size seldom less than the height of the room.

  • The other glass is of carved wood gilded, and is now in Memorial Hall, Philadelphia.

  • Even at this early period it seems probable that in the chief apartments the lines of the doorway were carried up to the ceiling by means of an over-door of carved wood, or of some painted decorative composition.

  • Used in the latter way, stucco may be made to produce the same effects as carved wood, and for delicacy of modelling in low relief it is superior to any other material.

  • The frame on the title-page of this volume is of carved wood, decorated with gold stucco.

  • These consist of an endless variety of carved wood masks or vizors, applied on the face, or to the upper part of the head or forehead.

  • At a little distance from these, near the middle of the morai, were three more of these square inclosed places, with two pieces of carved wood at each, and upon them a heap of fern.

  • Berne is a grand place to buy music-boxes in carved wood-work, and cuckoo clocks; some of these contrivances are very ingenious.

  • Illustration: Portrait of Christine de Pisan, Seated on a Canopied Chair of carved wood, the back lined with tapestry.

  • This novelty not only gave a new departure to the design of suitable frames in carved wood (generally gilt), but also to that of Boule work and marqueterie.

  • The tabernacle, with altar-piece of carved wood, is Louis XIII.

  • A beautiful 18th century lectern of carved wood, representing an eagle standing on a massive three-sided pedestal of red and white marble, stood in front of the Choir.

  • To the left is a screen of carved wood, topped by the upward curving horizontal, symbol of Shintoism, and decorated by delightfully fantastic carvings showing kylins among cloud scrolls.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    carved wood; carved wooden; chiefly known; correspondent writes; from thence; labor and; made some; meteoric stones; moderate heat; more value; ornamented with; pale olive; public performance; quick pulse; self from; shall cause; slaked lime; standing here; taken care; then press; what seemeth; would otherwise; young squire