The varnished surface with its strange carvings felt oddly comforting.

Very strange carvings, he says.

Around the great arch over the bridge, strange carvings of alien creatures regarded them with fixed gazes.

This theory is supported by the local stone circle and the strange carvings to be found in the rock formation by the village.

"It's not a natural meteor," he decided, as he examined the strange carvings on the side of the black cigar-shaped device.

He noticed strange carvings on these bones and concluded that these could be samples of China's earliest writing.

There was no altar-only the mouth of a great welllike shaft in the stone floor, with strange obscene carvings all about the rim.

It was covered with strange carvings and he mistook them for hieroglyphics, and gave me ten dollars for the thing.

That's when he noticed the strange carvings on the wall of the structure.

He noted the strange carvings on the stock-tribal markings perhaps.