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  • Mastery, it turns out, is not merely valuable for the pure joy of gaining command of a flute, a sword, a foreign language, a woodcarver's chisel, an artist's palette, a golf club, tennis racket, calligraphy pen or guitar; mastery is all about self-knowledge.

    Arthur Rosenfeld: On Mastery 2009

  • There, a figure stood motionless -- a curious, oddly-jointed thing that might have been a horse ... or some woodcarver's interpreta - tion of a horse.

    The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990

  • There, a figure stood motionless -- a curious, oddly-jointed thing that might have been a horse ... or some woodcarver's interpreta - tion of a horse.

    The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990

  • There, a figure stood motionless -- a curious, oddly-jointed thing that might have been a horse ... or some woodcarver's interpreta - tion of a horse.

    The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990

  • The men, both red-eyed with fever, were forced for several weeks to stay shut and shivering in an isolated hut, while the young woman, having presently taken a fancy to the wood-carver, shared the woodcarver's mat.

    Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958

  • The men, both red-eyed with fever, were forced for several weeks to stay shut and shivering in an isolated hut, while the young woman, having presently taken a fancy to the wood-carver, shared the woodcarver's mat.

    Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958

  • _ Little Nikas gave him such a box on the ear that he had to sit down on the woodcarver's steps.

    Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

  • _ Little Nikas gave him such a box on the ear that he had to sit down on the woodcarver's steps.

    Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

  • The type of which has been performed by an ill-trained drudge with mallet and woodcarver's chisel.

    Pocket-lint 2010

  • Bespectacled, his face fringed with a Swiss woodcarver's beard, Foster is animated in his speech and determined never to retire.

    The Monitor : 2009

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