Meanings of fine carving in английском

The case was made of white hard maple, admirably adapted for fine carving.

There were, too, a large wine-jar and an ivory goblet decorated with fine carving.

The walls were panelled in oak and there was a great deal of fine carving.

Every room in the house was wood-panelled, and there was some fine carving on the staircase.

These buildings are most of them painted red; and there is fine carving on panels, friezes and pediments, and also much tawdry gaudiness.

St. Mary's Church was built in 1518, and was remarkable for its two east windows and some fine carving on the walls outside.

The ancient font is carved in stone from the quarries at Beer, a stone particularly valued for fine carving and used by the Romans.

On each side of the altar was the remains of fine carving, and a weather-beaten picture above gave evidence of having been a beautiful painting.

Miserable concepts of the objective phases of the subjective whole, they are about as ill adapted for the purpose, as an axe for fine carving.

Wall paintings, plaster reliefs, and fine carvings in stone excite our admiration.

The surfaces of the grand courtyards are all covered by fine carvings.

We have gold, we have jewels, we have fine carvings, and armor, and many other things, all .

The fine carvings of the stalls date from 1296 and their canopies from 1390.

This early Georgian house had been in the then Lady Bracondale's dower, and still retained its fine carvings and Old-World state.