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carven
1. Kay shook her head, staring again at the carven heart
2. Her carven heart, on the hollow wall
3. She sat down against the wall, her fingers finding the carven heart in the stone, and she laid her head against the wall
4. The treasure was there, heaped in staggering profusion—piles of diamonds, sapphires, rubies, turquoises, opals, emeralds; zikkurats of jade, jet and lapis lazuli; pyramids of gold wedges; toecallis of silver ingots; jewel-hilted swords in cloth-of-gold sheaths; golden helmets with colored horsehair crests, or black and scarlet plumes; silver scaled corselets; gem-crusted harness worn by warrior-kings three thousand years in their tombs; goblets carven of single jewels; skulls plated with gold, with moonstones for eyes; necklaces of human teeth set with jewels
5. He paddled to the carven stair as one familiar with his environs, and moored the boat to a projection of the rock
6. He wheeled back through the jungle, down the carven stair and across the blue waters to the distant camp at the mouth of the Zaporoska
7. Suppose the hetman had left his warriors near by, and that they should grow suspicious and come to investigate his long absence? Jehungir spoke to the oarsmen, and the long boat slid from among the reeds and glided toward the carven stairs
8. The governor was alone in his chamber, seated at his ornately carven table of inlaid ebony
9. Bestial in the uncertain light Hanuman leered with his carven mask
10. The girl moved around the image, making toward the back wall, and when her sleek flank brushed against a carven knee, she shrank aside and shuddered as if a reptile had touched her
11. He glimpsed walls with ornamental copings, lattices of carven stone that might once have served as the walls of pleasure pavilions
12. A glimpse past the jamb of the carven door showed him the torches receding across the great throne room, but he was at the same time aware of a radiance that did not emanate from the torches
13. He saw a carven stone stair winding up from tier to tier of the galleries; the roof was lost in darkness
14. As the monstrous shape with it leprous gray body and the features of a carven, unhuman idol loomed over him, Conan struck as a wounded tiger strikes, with every ounce of thew and fury behind the blow
15. The steps were carven each with the abhorrent figure of the Old Serpent, Set, so that at each step he planted his heel on the head of the Snake, as it was intended from old times
16. And his hair prickled at the nape of his neck, for on the broad blade was carven a symbol – the outline of a phoenix
17. And he remembered that on the tomb in the crypt he had seen what he had thought to be a similar figure, carven of stone
18. They crowded back behind a cluster of carven pillars, and almost immediately ten giants in black armor swung by at a measured pace
19. In the Citadel, in a chamber with a domed ceiling of carven jet, and the fretted arches of doorways glimmering with strange dark jewels, a strange conclave came to pass
20. Through the bars peered a face like a fiendishly mocking carven gargoyle – Shukeli the eunuch, who had followed his stolen keys
21. The glare of the gem dazzled their eyes, so that they could not be sure of what they saw; but with a splintering crash, the carven lid of the sarcophagus burst outward as if from some irresistible pressure applied from within, and the four men, bending eagerly forward, saw the occupant—a huddled, withered, wizened shape, with dried brown limbs like dead wood showing through moldering bandages
22. He let them do as they would, saying nothing, not even when they set him in a carven throne-like chair with a high ebony back and wide silver arms, and feet like golden claws
23. And as he stared into it, somewhere beyond that carven door he heard the sound of another door opening and shutting, and then a low mumble of voices
24. The chamber was square, with walls and ceiling of polished black marble and furnished after the manner of the ancient Stygians; there was a couch of ebony, covered with black velvet, and on a black stone dais lay a carven mummy-case
25. There was a disquieting familiarity about that carven mask, and with something of a shock he realized what it was; there was a startling resemblance between it and the face of the girl lolling on the ebon couch
26. Along the black walls rose tier above tier of carven, painted sarcophagi
27. Thousands of carven masks stared impassively down upon the group in the midst of the hall, rendered futile and insignificant by that vast array of the dead
28. 'See how they sleep, staring through their carven masks! Kings, queens, generals, priests, wizards, the dynasties and the nobility of Stygia for ten thousand years! The touch of the heart will awaken them from their long slumber
29. In a tense stillness the two faced each other, amid that shambles, with the carven mummies staring down upon them
30. He towered beside the altar, dusky, naked, with a face like a carven image
31. He knew the wizard had not looked into the golden chest with its carven serpents that had seemed to sleep, since he laid the Heart therein
32. On the King's Altar, beside the ancient, carven stone, Xaltotun watched the steel tide ebb and flow
33. Imagination reconstructs the scene—the black-haired chief, in his tiger-skins and necklace of human teeth, squatting on the dirt floor of the wattle hut, listening intently to the eloquence of the priest, who probably sat on a carven, skin-covered block of mahogany provided in his honor—clad in the silken robes of a Nemedian priest, gesturing with his slender white hands as he expounded the eternal rights and justices which were the truths of Mitra
34. He found a carven strait
35. The scents had been trampled by those who came to dig her out, but he could still read them — her burial beneath falling earth, the place where I’d lain, the carven strait falling toward the bottom of the pit, the moment of contact between it and my hand
36. He smelled Graham’s scramble down into the hole, his brief effort to uncover Justine, his terrified flight with the carven strait in his pocket
37. The carven strait sat on the floor, shining dully
38. Ryzik went through the carven strait
39. carven amphitheatres, all awash with deep soft dust and completely uninhabited
40. Centuries of lamp smoke and incense had darkened the rough stone roof of the cavern, and their light spilled over the carven panels and filled the hushed reverence of that chamber with honey-toned illumination
41. In a great hall with pillars hewn out of the living stone sat the Elvenking on a chair of carven wood
42. In his hand he held a carven staff of oak
43. The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone,
44. unharmed in the hall below: the spears that were made for the armies of the great King Bladorthin (long since dead), each had a thrice-forged head and their shafts were inlaid with cunning gold, but they were never delivered or paid for; shields made for warriors long dead; the great golden cup of Thror, two-handed, hammered and carven with birds and flowers whose eyes and petals were of jewels; coats of mail gilded and silvered and impenetrable; the necklace of Girion, Lord of Dale, made of five hundred emeralds green as grass, which he gave for the arming of his eldest son in a coat of dwarf-linked rings the like of which had never been made before, for it was wrought of pure silver to the power and strength of triple steel
45. a great hearth between the carven pillars upon either side
46. and Isildur as they stand carven in their majesty in the halls of Denethor
47. A king he was on carven throne
48. upon four carven pillars, was a high seat, reached by a stair of many steps
49. basin, the carven rim of which was almost wholly covered with mosses and rose-brambles; iris-swords stood in ranks about it
50. The hobbits' packs were brought to them (a little heavier than they had been), and also two stout staves of polished wood, shod with iron, and with carven heads through which ran plaited leathern thongs
