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- It was cutting very close to the bone to carve such a shred of humanity from the body politic to make a soldier of. [6]
- They are beginning to sparkle a little, and soon they will be perfectly well, and you can carve the lion's head on my cane. [10]
- Now I venture to say that any painter or sculptor of real genius, though he may do nothing more than paint flowers and fruit, or carve cameos, is considered a privileged person. [6]
- The King sprang to his deliverer's side, with flushed cheeks and sparkling eyes, exclaiming-- "Thou hast lagged sorely, but thou comest in good season, now, Sir Miles; carve me this rabble to rags! [5]
- I shall have to carve out my own life, and I feel that I am as well able to do it as he was. [9]
- It was during this time that some good Catholics came to him with an heretical Protestant suggestion to carve a couplet or verse of poetry on the tombstones they ordered. [11]
- I would publish the name, but for the suspicion that he might come and carve me. [5]
- Now did it take a hundred years of patient toil to carve the Sphynx? [5]
- But I remember it best for a lunatic who caught me out in the fields, one Sunday, and extracted a butcher-knife from his boot and proposed to carve me up with it, unless I acknowledged him to be the only son of the Devil. [5]
- If you carve it at Thermopylae, or where Winkelried died, or upon Bunker Hill monument, and read it again "who fell in defence of law and order against fanaticism" you will perceive what the word means, and how mischosen it is. [5]
- He was not idle or lazy, he had energy and a disposition to carve his own way. [5]
- If you would have me carve gods, whom man can not represent to himself except in his own form, allow me also to represent them as reality shows me mortals. [10]
- The governor's temper got afire, and he delivered an oath at him that knocked up the dust where it struck the ground, and told him to shoulder that cask or he would carve him to cutlets and send him home in a basket. [5]
- There's a gaudy big grindstone down at the mill, and we'll smouch it, and carve the things on it, and file out the pens and the saw on it, too. [5]
- I had tried before to cut it out for you, for you complained yesterday that your hair was all in a tangle because you had not a comb, so I tried to carve you one out of bone. [10]
- We dare not attempt to carve a single stone from the living rock,--all our modern appliances fail to make the task as easy to us as it seems to have been to the early Egyptians. [6]
- They did paint, and they did carve in marble, one historical scene, and one only, (of any great historical consequence. [5]
- Tikhon with equal accuracy would split logs with blows at arm's length, or holding the head of the ax would cut thin little pegs or carve spoons. [2]
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