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But carving out time for writing is essential to production.
Let it rest for a few minutes before carving and serving.
The writer describes how the islanders went about carving their ceremonial canoes.
From behind him someone swung a blade towards his skull, carving a down-to-up trajectory through the air.
Along with carving pumpkins and trick-or-treating, reading spooky stories is a great way to celebrate.
Before you buy a carving, learning about mediums commonly used can help you authenticate work.
Each ethnic group has its own style of mask making, ceramic arts and wood carving.
Pumpkins, directions, tools and carving templates will be provided.
Many citizens secured places of safety for their families by carving out rooms in these embankments.
Now she walked more deliberately, but with a bone-handled carving knife ready in her pocket.
Someone of his caliber, though, needs little help in carving their own path.
It's soft, but not mushy, and you won't be carving any corners.
But first, there was the matter of carving out a livelihood.
Carving up humanity with a system of psychiatric labeling is rather repugnant in any case.
The side-to-side motion, which feels similar to carving your way down a ski slope, is what propels you.
Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet.
By adapting their innovations for different uses, entrepreneurial companies are carving out new niches of their own.
After carving out several fist-sized hunks of ice, she came over to take our order.
Although there are dozens of varieties, pumpkins fall into two categories: those for carving and those for cooking.
Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks.
But it also involves carving new paths for arrivals and departures made possible from satellite surveillance.
If you want to make serious cuts, the defense budget is the place to target the carving knife.
The carving of the two scaly dragons on the seal is regarded by some as not being of the finest quality.
Transfer roast to a carving board and loosely cover.
They are carving satyrs' heads in the stone, with a crowd of gaping youngsters looking on in admiring wonder.
Carving up jobs according to political affiliation or nationality is unlikely to be a way of finding the best candidate.
But he was smart enough to realize that there was another possible route to carving out free time: automation.
Original was built on taking that feeling of carving up a wave or mountain and putting it on the streets.
The event offers ongoing ice carving demonstrations and shows.
Fish-decoy carving, duck-decoy carving, fly-tying and small-boat building are among the daily demonstrations.
Small, thin-skinned varieties are generally cultivated for consumption while the carving pumpkins are fairly bland.
Glaciers slowly grind their way over mountains and plains, moving immense boulders and carving out fjords.
At one time he also earned his living carving headstones.
Carving is done in the kitchen and no food set on the table except ornamental dishes of fruit, candy and nuts.
Rather than trying to bring the world to as many readers as possible, they are carving out niches.
The community also does a good job of carving out the boundaries of what's notable so that the set of stays manageable.
Rustic furniture, material for carving and wood turning, as well as arts and crafts are among the many products.
No one knew, or they weren't telling, who was carving them.
Today's a splendid day to hone your carving skills on a few turkeys.
Since then no additional carving has been done, nor is any further work on the memorial planned.
There was an old door in this playground, on which the boys had a custom of carving their names.
Scads of lawyers and bankers were hired over the past week to work on carving up whatever remains.
Transfer to a carving board and loosely cover with foil.
Bird should be placed on back, with legs at right of platter for carving.
Since there were no set symbols for words in those days, messages were conveyed by a painting or a carving.
The paper is then left to dry and later peeled off the stone face as a mirror image of the original carving.
Alongside it on the shaft is a carving of a handshake.
Somehow matter won out over time, eventually carving a stable enough preponderance to allow life to take root.
They are designed for carving big turns at high speed.

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