elaborately-carved

• “Further toward the corner closest to the harbor was a tiny man sitting behind a half-dozen small and elaborately-carved ivory figures.”

  The Magic of Recluce

• “Marble slabs, settees covered with blue velvet, chairs and curtains of the same, and three or four round or oval mirrors in elaborately-carved gilt frames, designated this as the lady's apartment.”

  Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851

• “Her body was afterwards put into the elaborately-carved alabaster sarcophagus on the left side of the altar.”

  The South of France—East Half

• “First to the cellar, as it is called, though it is far from being under ground, and is, in fact, a spacious stone building with an elaborately-carved pediment.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876

• “Passing and examining _en route_ many elaborately-carved temples, whose domes rose amid the strangling masses of desert tree and shrub, we came to the base of the red tower, whose shaft, four-square and in perfect preservation, has, with its more venerable brother of Fame, watched for so many centuries over the fallen fortress of Chitor.”

  A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil

• “Other tables have the land-structures, from the elaborately-carved wooden bungalow with tiled roof of the residency of Japara in Java to the bamboo hut with palm-leaf sides and roofs of the maritime Dyaks of Borneo.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.

• “Above it is a canopy with a richly-foliated arch, and a gable with crockets, terminating in an elaborately-carved finial, with a statue of the archbishop in the act of benediction on the top.”

  The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See

• “In the late Gothic and Renaissance part, the ceilings are richly and floridly groined, angelic and other figures forming the termination of the low-reaching bosses, the groins converging in fan-like order towards elaborately-carved canopies against the wall.”

  Two Summers in Guyenne

• “A Japanese netsuke is an elaborately-carved ivory button of various shapes and sizes -- no two are alike; they take the form of men or animals and, as a rule, are executed with amazing delicacy, and, if signed and old, are of considerable value.”

  The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma

• “The old disused town-hall is quaint enough with its elaborately-carved _façade_, with a high double roof and dormers, and a lantern surmounting all.”

  A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg

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