When she was alone she sat down, not on the carven chair a carpenter had made her in Jamestown, but on the floor, as she had so often sat about the lodge fire when she wished to think hard.
"The Princess Pocahontas"
Virginia Watson
The gate, whose exquisite Saracenic arch grew into a carven flame, was surmounted by the armorial bearings of a family that died of its sins against the Serenest Republic long ago; the marble cistern which stood in the middle of the court had still a ducal rose upon either of its four sides; and little lions of stone perched upon the posts at the head of the marble stairway climbing to the gallery, their fierce aspects worn smooth and amiable by the contact of hands that for many ages had mouldered in tombs.
"A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories"
William D. Howells
A veil seemed to have taken the place of the carven pillar, a thin, dream-veil.
"The Sins of Séverac Bablon"
Sax Rohmer