The highlight was barbary duck for two with lavender and honey, a tour de force expertly carved at tableside.

Later on they taught him a game that consisted of a table with holes and nets around the edge, and balls carved expertly out of wood, and apparently balls had to bounce off one another and into the holes.

The man takes it, then employs his narrow-bladed and white-hiked bronze belt knife to cut away the brown spot, expertly carving the remainder of the fruit into identical crescents.

Steel flashed in the torchlight as she expertly carved the bird.

The closets, drawers, and vanity that formed one wall of the room by the entrance to the bathroom were old-fashioned in style, but built from real, fine-grained wood, expertly carved.

Even as she was expertly carving the bird, she smiled sweetly, ever the grand-mere.

"And expertly carved," Frank remarked, examining the intricately made model.