chiselling , also: chiseling

The voluptuous carvings of the 11th century were replaced with a more severe chiselling.

Then unexpectedly my hands came upon a doorway, where hung a portal of stone, rough with strange chiselling.

Soapstone was also used for carving, modelling and chiselling of components that could be described as "chubby".

The face under the close casque hat had the chiselling of prolonged trial--fine-lined and rather hard.

The mould is removed and the weld is cleaned by hot chiselling and grinding to produce a smooth joint.

My arms were aching from all that chiselling and hammering, and my mind was still a little tender from those claustrophobic moments inside the tank.

His farce A Pretty Piece of Chiselling was given its first production by the Ingoldsby Club in 1864.

He was a handsome fellow, clean limbed and powerful, with an intelligent face and features of such exquisite chiselling that Adonis himself might have envied him.

Even from this distance he could make out the first faint chiselling of life's hardship and care at the corners of her mouth, and a new hard line to her jaw.

The technique involves considerable chiselling away of the background, which is a time-consuming exercise with little artistic effect if the lowered background is left plain, as is often the case.

In politics their self-righteous feeling of virtue, combined with their essentially peasant training, resulted in their introducing a type of cut-rate, petty chiselling that should make Boss Tweed spin in his coffin.

"From the great care taken in the chiselling, squaring and fitting up of the component parts of the whole, as well as the great size and weight, the work is one of great strength and solidity.

Well, when I say winning double," said Captain Biggar, raising his voice a little, "that's what it would have been but for the degraded chiselling of a dastardly, lop-eared--" "Quite, quite," said Bill hurriedly.

The bridge of her nose was flat, but the wings of her nostrils, the chiselling of her mouth, the curve of her eyes as they moulded into her cheeks these things moved me and filled my thoughts with their perfection.

'You are Edward Brown, and were Boatswain of-' The door was flung open with a violent crash that madeeveryone jump, and Gianna, her face white and drawn, emphasizing the fine chiselling of her high cheekbones, swept into the cabin.

Frodo's face was peaceful, the marks of fear and care had left it; but it looked old, old and beautiful, as if the chiselling of the shaping years was now revealed in many fine lines that had before been hidden, though the identity of the face was not changed.