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Chiseled   /tʃˈɪzəld/   Listen
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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



... the poets themselves, and the odes seemed to be made from them as so many themes. Scholars handed down a faith in them from one to another, and no one ventured to express a doubt of their authority. The text was twisted and chiseled to bring it into accordance with them, and no one would undertake to say plainly that they were the work of the scholars ...
— The Shih King • James Legge
... limbs covered with a rug of crimson and black and dull, dull green. She was dangling gently, sensuously, the great cluster of scarlet roses that she held, now and again bringing them to where their fragrance would reach her delicately-chiseled nose, imperious, haughty.... They looked startlingly red against her cheek—like blood upon the snow.... She was looking at him.... There was no movement, save the even, languorous swing of the crimson blossoms. Lips, vivid red, were motionless, ...
— A Fool There Was • Porter Emerson Browne
... to subdue her apprehension. Her profile showed pale and expressionless, as if chiseled in the ...
— The Kingdom Round the Corner - A Novel • Coningsby Dawson
... placidly along almost at right angles with the rapids above. At this abrupt turn, evidences of former floods were plain. Immense rocks were cut and carved in spiral columns as skillfully as any sculptor could have chiseled them. Great flocks of wild black ducks peculiar to the Tagus, were continually rising at ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton
... base is chiseled a characteristic extract from one of Grady's speeches. This speech was made in 1899, in Boston, and one hopes that it may have been heard by the late Charles Francis Adams, who labored in Massachusetts for the cause of intersectional ...
— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street


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