Sentence examples for carved upon from inspiring English sources

If there were a Mount Rushmore of 20th-century authors, Doris Lessing would most certainly be carved upon it.

Or did they do it on purpose?The map of the America's 50 states is so familiar you might be forgiven for thinking their borders had been carved upon the land by Divine Providence.

Since it was first recorded at the turn of the 17th century in Rome, where it was supposedly discovered in a sarcophagus in the tomb of the emperor Alexander Severus, this exquisitely worked example of imperial Roman cameo glass has resisted the ingenious efforts of generations of art historians to understand the mysterious scenes carved upon its sides.

Its eyes and mouth are open and various jaguar pawprints are carved upon the body of the animal.

We came upon two large stones, each of which had a map of the city and the region delicately carved upon its face.

"I went to make the vivisection, saw the star carved upon her chest," frontman Black Francis sings, punching all his familiar lyrical buttons, "Goat of lust attacking heaven, points to the gaze of the blue-eyed hexe".

In the late 17th century it was principally employed for decorating the cases of cabinets set upon carved Baroque bases or for ornamenting leather wall coverings.

It is constantly reclaimed by the quick-growing forest, so that stumbling through the roots and lianas and coming upon carved ceremonial stones and crumbling buildings is a real Indiana Jones experience.

Only by traveling overland are you able to visit the Jain Adinatha Temple at Ranakpur, an ineffable monument of marble whose hall contains either hundreds or thousands of intricately carved columns, depending upon whom you ask.

Kenneth Tynan once observed that Dr Johnson's description of Milton equally applied to O'Neill: "Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherrystones".

This figure or the head alone was painted and carved in bas-relief upon a great variety of objects, including canoes, paddles, slit gongs, dance clubs, and architectural elements.