"Carve" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... capital. You'll never put up any statues to me or carve my name on any tablets, but I'm doing something for you that will mean more ...
— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes
... cause they had been fighting for. A feeble, attenuated old man, who wore the Rebel uniform, if such it could be called, stood by without showing any sign of intelligence. It was cutting very close to the bone to carve such a shred of humanity from the body-politic ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 62, December, 1862 • Various
... the maid gave crafty answer, And she spoke the words which follow: "No, I will not yet go with you, If a boat you cannot carve me, From the splinters of my spindle, From the fragments of my shuttle, And shall launch the boat in water, Push it out upon the billows, But no knee shall press against it, And no hand must even touch it; 130 And no arm shall urge it ...
— Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) - The Land of the Heroes • Anonymous
... when the latter became Pope he was created cardinal and appointed Grand Inquisitor. After his election Pius V. followed still the strict life of fasting and prayer to which he had been accustomed as a Dominican friar. He did not seek to create positions, or to carve out estates from the papal territories for his relatives. Anxious to promote the temporal as well as the spiritual welfare of the people in his temporal dominions he took steps to see that justice was meted out to poor and rich, banished women of loose character from ...
— History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French • Rev. James MacCaffrey
... blessing to our benefactor. I little dreamed then of the unforgivable injury I was fated to do him! You see, Padre, I use the word "fated." That's because I've turned coward. I try to pretend that fate has been too strong for me. But down deep I know you were right when you said, "Our characters carve ...
— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
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