It is the engraving, the sculpturing, which the marble receives under the chisel.
It is the picture which the artist paints on the canvas.

Final character is what a man is when he has lived through all his earthly years.

In the Christian it is the lines of the likeness of Christ limned, sometimes furrowed and scarred, upon his soul by the divine Spirit through the means of grace and the experiences of his own life.
I saw a beautiful vase, and asked its story.

Once it was a lump of common clay lying in the darkness.

Then it was rudely dug out and crushed and ground in the mill, and then put upon the wheel and shaped, then polished and tinted and put into the furnace and burned.