More than 200,000 people live in what are colloquially known as " caged flats" , tiny claustrophobic spaces that are carved out of subdivided apartments.
So what I really like is that it's very reminiscent of the buildings that were carved out of the walls of the canyon at the ancient city of Petra in Jordan.
She disappeared again, and came back with a big-bowled pipe in her hand, carved out of some hard wood very elaborately, and mounted in gold sprinkled with little gems.
So, with a sculpture, for example, a statue, it could be made of stone, like marble; metal, like bronze; or could be wood, it could be carved out of wood.
The waterfall is part of an aqueduct -- a man-made, underground river carved out of the rock -- allowing freshwater to flow 15 miles from a mountain spring into the city.
It was dark on the Old Wharf, very dark; the wool sheds, the cattle trucks, the cranes standing up so high, the little squat railway engine, all seemed carved out of solid darkness.