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Chiseled   /tʃˈɪzəld/   Listen
verb
Chisel  v. t.  (past & past part. chiseled or chiselled; pres. part. chiseling or chiselling)  
1.
To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.
2.
To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat. (Slang)





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"Chiseled" Quotes from Famous Books



... at the young artist as he strode along, admiring his well-knit figure, his handsome boyish features chiseled as finely as a cameo, the crisp brown hair with a slight tendency to curl, his velvet jacket and flowing tie. Jack nodded and smiled at a familiar face now and then, or paused briefly to greet a male acquaintance; for the Latin ...
— In Friendship's Guise • Wm. Murray Graydon
... the gorge. Blake considered the reading worthy of permanent record. They had measured all the many hundreds of feet down from the top of High Mesa to these profound depths. With his two-pound hammer and one of the few remaining spikes, he chiseled a cross deep in the ...
— Out of the Depths - A Romance of Reclamation • Robert Ames Bennet
... but that did not hinder her from walking out alone. In the afternoon of the second day, Signe went to the art gallery, and that was the end of her sightseeing to other parts. She lingered among the paintings of the masters and the beautiful chiseled marble—the first she had seen—until the attendant reminded her that ...
— Added Upon - A Story • Nephi Anderson
... watch and chain of the hundred-guinea kind that nowadays are only found among the heirlooms. Young Cunningham looked at it, and recognized the heavy old-gold case that he had been allowed to "blow open" when a little boy. On the outside, deep-chiseled in the gold, was his father's crest, and on the inside a portrait of ...
— Rung Ho! • Talbot Mundy
... him. He was a huge man with a rather well-chiseled face, considering his thickness of limb, and his blond hair fell in an untidy shower about his prominent and throbbing temples. Fred felt him to be a man without any inherited social graces, yet he contrived to appear at ease. Was it because he was disposed to let the women chatter? No, that ...
— Broken to the Plow • Charles Caldwell Dobie


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