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India's 'Prince' may have chiselled, film star-like good looks, but he will be prepared to fight if the crown slips.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2025

Firefighters have chiselled through a concrete block to rescue a fox cub after it became trapped between a garage and stone wall.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2022

The descent from the summit is gradual, but is everywhere broken by precipices and towering rocks, which time and the elements have chiselled into strange fantastic shapes.

From History of Phoenicia by Rawlinson, George

For instance, how few of us have chiselled nostrils!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919 by Various

The chasm has perpendicular, though irregular, sides, which the waves have chiselled out very square.

From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. by Hawthorne, Nathaniel