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  • So intense has been the focus on one man's unchiselled abs it is almost tempting to wonder if there might be something else going on here.

    Why Samit Patel's cricket skill set carries so much weight | Barney Ronay 2011

  • So intense has been the focus on one man's unchiselled abs it is almost tempting to wonder if there might be something else going on here.

    Why Samit Patel's cricket skill set carries so much weight | Barney Ronay 2011

  • It is this indigenous, unchiselled type who suddenly seems a rarity.

    Why do I like Tim Bresnan so much? 2010

  • MOOS (voice-over): A group called Improv Everywhere organized an event in which over 100 regular, unchiselled guys descended on the store and took their shirts off.

    CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2008 2008

  • MOOS: A group called Improv Anywhere organized an event in which over a hundred regular unchiselled guys descended on the store and took their shirts off.

    CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2008 2008

  • MOOS (voice-over): A group called Improv Everywhere organized an event in which over a hundred regular unchiselled guys descended on the store and took their shirts off.

    CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2008 2008

  • She made the sun join in her play, with a smile rendered languorous by an invisible haze which was nought but a space kept vacant about her translucent surface, which, thus curtailed, became more appealing, like those goddesses whom the sculptor carves in relief upon a block of marble, the rest of which he leaves unchiselled.

    Within a Budding Grove 2003

  • Walls and steps alike were of rough rock, unchiselled, the living rock into which the Old People had burrowed for their burial chambers.

    The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

  • In those to the right were millions of wedges of gold and silver, piled beneath craggy arches of huge unchiselled stone.

    Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers

  • The old building, whose use we could not discover, was composed, not of ordinary blocks of stone, but of huge flat slabs, unchiselled at edges or corners, laid one over another, but forming decidedly an intentional edifice.

    Byeways in Palestine James Finn

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