chiselling

• “One thing I hate about sports is just how interested so many fans are in chiselling the players they supposedly root for. notchris Says:”

  Matthew Yglesias » Agent Zero Suspended

• “One thing I hate about sports is just how interested so many fans are in chiselling the players they supposedly root for.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Agent Zero Suspended

• “From my companion, the prince-hierarch, I learned it was begun by an ancient Pharaoh of the same name, one of the kings of the oldest dynasty, who conceived the idea of chiselling into these grand proportions a mass of rock, which, projecting from the Libyan hills, nearly obstructed the view of the principal pyramid.”

  The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage

• “An ancient human skull is embedded in the entrance shaft, which bears Sabaean chiselling.”

  The Guardian: Archaeologists strike gold in quest to find Queen of Sheba's wealth

• “Lucy is joined by Chloe Fontaine, little sister of the legend that is Seb, who's also chiselling out a decent-sized rep for herself of late with several London residencies, studio productions and international gigs.”

  The Guardian: Clubs picks of the week

• “Here, in depths of just five metres or so, divers can make a leisurely exploration of the reef, or the coral fingers known as spur-and-groove formations, taking in everything from iridescent parrot fish chiselling into the coral to the steady progress of a conch as it makes its way along the sandy seabed.”

  The Guardian: Discover an extraordinary underwater world in the Cayman Islands

• “Last Monday the players at my anti-writersblock roleplay graced me by giving me a rough shape and a glorious mental image of what the ending of my novel could look like and ever since I've been chiselling out words and sentences.”

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• “Only that chiselling on your expenses is acceptable.”

  Archive 2009-02-08

• “Yet even when you're sure the bottom of this barrel has been well and truly scraped, some chiselling retailer always manages to discover a concealed basement to the cask.”

  The Guardian: World Cup tat: form an orderly queue

• “Real poetry should be as intricate and involved as chiselling a David out of a block of quarried marble.”

  Richard Britton Interview

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