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• v  shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it
• v  carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
• s  cut into a desired shape
  graven images
• s  cut or impressed into a surface

• Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thingExodus 20:4David Aronson, son of an immigrant Lithuanian rabbi,.
• This strain of Puritan denial of the graven image seems never to have quite vanished from American art.
• We shall never surrender! IN his last, loneliest battle, that defiant vow seemed graven on Sir Winston Churchill's soul.

• sculpt
• sculpture
• grave
• scratch
• engrave
• inscribe
• sculpted
• sculptured
• engraved
• etched
• incised
• inscribed

News & Articles

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• Dancers will compete at State Fair event
  MASON CITY — Aubri Graven, 7, daughter of Shawn and Amy Graven, and Melanie Askildson, 11, daughter of Rodney and Mary Askildson, both of Mason City, advanced to the first round in the Bill Riley Iowa State Fair Talent Competition in Des Moines.
  Aug. 6, 2013 - The Globe Gazette

Quotes

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• Stephen King in Miami Herald
  I modified their outline and have had a chance to tinker with the dialogue and narration of each issue before it gets graven in stone,King said. "I don't tell anyone what or how to draw, though. I know my limitations."
• Pericles in Town Hall
  Pericles, the Athenian leader, noted "Not only are they commemorated by column and inscriptions, but there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men."
• the Apostle Paul in RenewAmerica
  Paul said it best; "Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all...