A monk collected all the bones, and a wood-carver was hired to assemble them in the church. ❋ Alison Espach (2011)
I have what Papa calls quick hands, the hands of a true wood-carver. ❋ Cameron Dokey (2008)
A passionate wood-carver … His beliefs in art were that all subjects were comprised of one or more of the following shapes: "the egg, the round pebble and the blade of grass". ❋ Unknown (2008)
Veit Stoss (1445/50-1533), Nuremburg's master wood-carver and sculptor, is represented with "The Mother of God" (1520), a beautifully preserved wooden piece in which a regal Mary is shown with a large, delicate crown and superbly carved drapery. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Im more of an obsessive wood-carver with a single subject thus farmy father. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Silversmith, saddler, watchmaker, wood-carver, violinist, inventor, and painter—as well as the creator of the first set of enamel teeth ever made in America—this remarkably protean genius who had also done distinguished service in the Revolutionary War aspired to establish a great public institution dedicated to the cultivation of aesthetic taste and the diffusion of scientific knowledge. ❋ Harold Schechter (1999)
Sire Harlan's captain is also a wood-carver, and he's heard that if they try the same again next year, the non-Guild crafts-people have threatened to hold their own Faires-outside the gates, and just off the road. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1992)
He never told his family what he had made of Alicia's strange gesture, but I at least know what he did, because I still retain prooi. lie went to an Indian wood-carver and asked him to make a sturdy doll, the size of an eight-year-old giil. ❋ Michener, James (1992)
Dylan studied the almost flexible carving, unable to decide whether the master wood-carver had shown a face laughing or screaming. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1990)
The men, both red-eyed with fever, were forced for several weeks to stay shut and shivering in an isolated hut, while the young woman, having presently taken a fancy to the wood-carver, shared the woodcarver's mat. ❋ Capote, Truman, 1924- (1958)
A wood-carver by trade, he could work skillfully in wood or metal, and after a time established a brass foundry. ❋ George Henry Tilton (N/A)
Upon an elevated bench or dresser were littered the tools of the sculptor and wood-carver, with a few unfinished trials of small saintly figures; and around the room were fragments of wooden images of saints, some discoloured, some broken, a few in tolerable preservation, which were either destined to be restored and repainted, or had served as studies for the artist. ❋ Various (N/A)
They were sadly battered and he consigned them to a queer old wood-carver to patch up. ❋ Leona Dalrymple (N/A)
The wood-carver made exquisite choir stalls, pulpits, altars, and screens. ❋ Hutton Webster (N/A)
He started as a wood-carver, and between 1491 and 1502 did much of the decorative carving in the church of ❋ Various (N/A)
