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Hopkins coined the term inscape as shorthand for what Wiman describes as “carv [ing] language so closely … that to read the lines aloud is to feel the physical fact of what they describe ….”

A Note on Christian Wiman’s Reading of Basil Bunting : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Timber from the trunk was used for building and for carv ing gods; the wiry fiber that grew in the crown was woven into fabric; ribs of the fronds when dried were suitable for starting fires, and sharper ribs, from the leaves, were used in making darts.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959

Drop the silent e after lv and rv: involv, twelv, carv, deserv.

Chapter 8. American Spelling. 5. Simplified Spelling Henry Louis 1921

I walked through many streets, some broad and straight with high, modern buildings, some narrow, gloomy, and tortuous, be - tween the gables of quaint old houses whose over - hanging stories, elaborately ornamented with carv - ings in wood and stone, almost met above my head.

Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909

In the districts around Kandahar, a newly reported American tactic is simply to raze individual houses or even whole villages believed to be booby-trapped by the Taliban, as well as tree lines “where insurgents could hide.” American troops have also been “blow[ing] up outbuildings, flatten[ing] agricultural walls, and carv[ing] new ‘military roads,’ because existing ones are so heavily mined… right through farms and compounds.” And now, reports Rajiv Chandrasekaran of the Washington Post, the Marines are also sending the first contingent of M1 Abrams tanks with a “main gun that can destroy a house more than a mile away” into the south.

Tom Engelhardt: How to Schedule a War: The Incredible Shrinking Withdrawal Date Tom Engelhardt 2010

In the districts around Kandahar, a newly reported American tactic is simply to raze individual houses or even whole villages believed to be booby-trapped by the Taliban, as well as tree lines & ldquo; where insurgents could hide. ” American troops have also been & ldquo; blow [ing] up outbuildings, flatten [ing] agricultural walls, and carv [ing] new & lsquo; military roads, & rsquo; because existing ones are so heavily mined… right through farms and compounds. ” And now, reports Rajiv Chandrasekaran of the Washington Post, the Marines are also sending the first contingent of M1 Abrams tanks with a & ldquo; main gun that can destroy a house more than a mile away” into the south.

Tom Engelhardt: How to Schedule a War: The Incredible Shrinking Withdrawal Date Tom Engelhardt 2010

And, becaufe he's their betters, you carv for him firft;

The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin 1768