| 单词 | unhewn |
| 例句 | This lower portion consists of a well-consolidated mass of unhewn stone. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z The exterior is composed of unhewn logs or sticks of fir, fantastically arranged, with a thatched, moss-covered roof, and skins of beasts converted into semi-transparent parchment for windows. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z Rough unhewn stones were easily piled into massive walls and laid in terraces for altar and floors. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z Among the Is´ra-el-ites it was of earth or unhewn stone. Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers 2012-03-01T03:00:24.783Z I left it as for nearly two hundred years it has stood, "On its windy site uplifting gabled roof and palisade, And rough walls of unhewn timber with the moonlight overlaid." Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z We clambered up this, and then perceived, still further to the right, the ruins of several huts and walls, built of unhewn stones and overgrown with the creeping beans. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z During the next period we find the heavy boulder-stones, unhewn blocks fitted with handles and probably used at shorter distances, 70 or 80 ℔ being no uncommon weight. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z It is a tiny, damp vault, made of great, unhewn stones, and reached by a hole in the ground. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z In places which would otherwise have been difficult the narrow roadway had been solidly constructed of massive stonework, for the greater part unhewn. The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo 2012-01-19T03:00:22.827Z The poem, though rough and unhewn, still remains one of the marvels of early literature, and to Francis belongs the honour of setting his seal on the religious poetry 79 of his country. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z The huts, of which the rough walls of unhewn stone alone remain, are built in terraces one above the other on the hill-side. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z The structure, when completed, was fourteen feet square, and was built of small unhewn logs. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z A master mind before the marble stood, Fresh quarried was it, rough and all unhewn, To other eyes it seemed a shapeless stone; To his, a stately form and beautiful. From the Thames to the Tiber or, My visit to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, etc. 2011-12-03T03:00:10.397Z The tombstone is unhewn millstone grit, covered with a limestone slab, whereon a heraldic shield was once traceable, supposed to indicate the ownership of the Whartons. Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland 2011-11-01T02:00:23.027Z Dolmen, dol′men, n. a stone table: the French name for a cromlech, a prehistoric structure of two or more erect unhewn stones, supporting a large flattish stone. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z On rough, unhewn, uncovered boards laid above poles stretched between the forks, the feast was served. Stories of Old Kentucky 2011-09-23T02:00:21.413Z An unhewn stump of wood was the Dionysus idol of the rustic people.**** Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Our house was a very small one built of rough, unhewn logs. Riches of Grace A Compilation of Experiences in the Christian Life 2011-06-21T02:00:23.800Z Two concentric ramparts of unhewn stones, flung together more rudely than a Parisian barricade, exhibiting the science of fortification in its very infancy, inclose a circular area of considerable extent. Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-17T02:00:19.780Z The furnace door clashed; the scene faded; only a glittering line of vivid white light, emitted between the ill-fitting door and the unhewn rock, enlivened the gloom. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z And as to its being countryfied, the Castle itself certainly is not so, although the entire population consists of rough unhewn blocks. Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:13.983Z They are totally unhewn, and vary considerably in form and size. Notice of Runic Inscriptions Discovered during Recent Excavations in the Orkneys 2011-01-03T03:01:08.433Z All log cabins are much alike–a square enclosure of unhewn logs thatched with saplings and chinked with mud and moss. The Girl From Tim's Place Poets are born, not made; but careful study and patience serve to smooth the rough edges, as the edges are natural to the unhewn marble. Zula Probably this stone, a massive unhewn block of greenstone-trap, had been a familiar object to him in his youth, for it lay alone in a field close to the Linlithgow road. Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine It had but a single room, one window in front, and a crude chimney made from unhewn stones and clay. The Cottage of Delight A Novel The interior is filled up with shingle and fragments of unhewn coral. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II And if they must needs go further, and erect a more durable pile, it must still be of materials crude, inartistic, such as the earth itself affords, of unhewn stone. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus Life lies before us like the unhewn block of marble, and we may fashion it as we please. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II At another time they would have called out to her; sent banter after her in rough unhewn speech, and got in return as good, or better, than they sent. First Fam'lies of the Sierras It was hard to find the door, the steps of which were of unhewn stones. The White Queen of Okoyong A True Story of Adventure Heroism and Faith Altogether, in his aspect there was something aboriginal, as of a piece of unhewn granite, which had never been polished to any approved pattern, whose natural and original vitality had never been tampered with. Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series The warning and the command had alike reference to an unhewn tree-trunk thrown across the gulf that was now to be traversed. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 His meeting-house was of unhewn logs, from eighty to a hundred feet long and forty wide. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia Here stood a little hut, very roughly built of unhewn logs: instead of doors two low narrow holes were opposite each other. A Captive of the Roman Eagles Before each cairn was an altar, built of unhewn stones topped by a slab. The Woodlands Orchids Cane Ridge schoolhouse was a large hut of unhewn logs, with a roof of rough boards and bark. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge The houses were chiefly cabins made of unhewn logs, and the things which in older communities make the inside of houses attractive were almost wholly wanting. Andrew Jackson The walls of the apartment were of unhewn tree-trunks, varied only by broad stripes of clay filling the interstices. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 That is to say, it must be paved with unhewn logs, laid side by side across it. A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs Groups of open "summer-houses," built of bark, unhewn wood, and moss, are clustered here and there. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. Scribner's Illustrated The rude arastra is made with a pavement of unhewn flat stones, which are usually laid down in clay. Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining An upright stone represents the god; it is not a statue of him, being unhewn and having no resemblance to the human figure. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems The bridge rests on three sills, each a log that, unhewn, must have taken a dozen oxen to drag it. Dwellers in the Hills Within this circle, and leaving a space about nine feet wide between, was another circle of thirty or forty unhewn stones about four to seven feet high. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel They set up a heap of unhewn stone, and called upon God to guard and to see that neither of them passed beyond the boundary of the other. The Meaning of Evolution Two of the largest of these huts were mere shells inside, and used for mess-rooms, exposing the unhewn girders and roof above, but all whitewashed and tolerably clean. Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life A huge open fireplace of unhewn gray stones yawns rudely in the wall to the right, and a narrow door leads to a smaller apartment in the rear. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History The place has a melancholy aspect, all the houses being of the rudest construction, built of unhewn granite, black with age, and very lofty. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. These slabs are so irregular in form as to look quite unhewn. Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot The naked figure of suppliant Israel stands before an altar of unhewn stones, on which burns the sacrifice. The Meaning of Evolution Then, exerting all the force of his powerful frame, a rough slab of unhewn rock yielded to the effort, and rose like a vertical door slung by a massive hinge at the top. Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life In the warehouse in the rear, however, hanging from unhewn beams or piled in heaps, were buffalo robes and skins of all the fur-bearing animals, awaiting shipment to Fort Benton. A Man of Two Countries It is a wild and romantic neighbourhood; and the principal village, though surrounded with verdure, has a most desolate aspect, the houses being built of unhewn stone, black with age, and the windows unglazed. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. We saw heaps of porpoises and heaps of flying-fish; some birds; unhewn timber—a nasty lot of it—and big floats of sea-weed. It, and Other Stories They built on it a house of grey, unhewn stone, long and low like the home they had “left on the other side of the sea.” David Fleming's Forgiveness He saw only a jagged, unhewn cranny, barely tall enough for a man to stand upright and reaching far into the sculptured rock. A Victor of Salamis A Siberian barrow, described by Demidov, contained three contiguous chambers of unhewn stone. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" They form a consecutive series from rude unhewn stones to highly finished obelisks, of which the tallest still erect is 60 ft. in height, with 8 ft. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" "This pyramid," he observes, "was encircled at its base with a number of enormous unhewn stones," etc. Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 No sculptured arabesque to-day, But unhewn strength in mighty play, That heaves the ship on bursting billow And smites the cliff in its ancient way! Song-waves It runs for about 36 feet, being 6 feet high and nearly as wide, and is formed of rugged unhewn blocks. The Cornwall Coast The walls of the haciendas are of rough unhewn stone. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests The old Wartburg stood unchanged, high up on the hill above, with "the monk and the nun" in unhewn stone. The Sand-Hills of Jutland The stone itself consists of a massive unhewn block of the secondary greenstone-trap of the district, many large boulders of which lie in the bed of the neighbouring river. Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 At length, after long and incessant labour through a dangerous pathway, he arrived at the steep summit, from which he discovered massive walls and lofty towers, that appeared to be constructed of rough unhewn stone. Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers A further characteristic of the Celtic Church was the rudeness and smallness of its buildings, which were of three styles—wattle and daub, timber beams, and unhewn stones. Chronicles of Strathearn Private dwellings in the mountainous parts are built of unhewn stone, cemented with a very strong calcareous mortar. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests It was built of unhewn logs, its crevices chinked with clay, and was large enough to seat about two hundred persons. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Philip turned out of this into a narrow path which went through a bare green space, that was dotted with pegs of wood and little unhewn slabs of slate, like an abandoned quoit ground. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 From the unhewn block set on end in the Druid's Bethel, to this Lord's House and blue-vitrailed gate of Heaven, you have the entire course and consummation of the Northern Religious Builder's passion and art. Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens He had at first intended that the cabin should be constructed by his own hands alone, of rough, unhewn timber; that it should contain only one room, and that of the simplest. Kiddie the Scout When she finds that her wax shows her nothing but the natural excrescences and roughnesses of an unhewn stone, will she persist in her visits to the garden? The Forsaken Inn A Novel The walls were built of unhewn stones, gathered from the bed of the river hard by; and the interstices were filled up with mud and straw. Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication The weather boarding was broken, and in some places entirely fallen away, showing the great unhewn logs beneath; while off the boards that remained the whitewash had peeled in scrofulous spots. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Picture to yourself, sympathising reader, a long, low hut, built of rough, unhewn, unplaned logs, filled up with mud and split bamboo; a long, sloping roof and a large verandah, already full of visitors. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands The "meeting-house," of large unhewn logs, was a story and a half in height, and about large enough to seat comfortably a congregation of two hundred persons. Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time Falconet had his own way, and after the labour of many years, a colossus of bronze bestrode a charger rearing on a monstrous mass of unhewn granite. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. I have stood upon their graves, which are marked only by a blighted tree and an unhewn stone, and have sighed deeply as I remembered their deeds. Old Mackinaw The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings The hulls are oiled and afloat; they carry from the woodland green boughs for oars and massy logs unhewn, in hot haste to go. . . . The Aeneid of Virgil On the other side of our route we observed a forest of upright stones, rough and unhewn. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Garfield's new home was built of unhewn logs, notched and laid one upon another, to the height of twelve feet in front and eight feet behind. The Story of Garfield Farm-boy, Soldier, and President Six very large slabs of rough unhewn limestone, which had obviously come from Jebel Dukhan, lay on the top of the tomb, forming a roof. Southern Arabia We there laid him to rest; and a volley having been fired over his remains, a heap of unhewn rocks was piled up above them to serve as the young Patriot’s tomb. In New Granada Heroes and Patriots They are proofs of what you and I shall be, the finished copies of the statues which lie as yet so rough, so unhewn, in the marble of our humanity. London Lectures of 1907 Did you ever cross a rapid stream on an unhewn foot-log? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. It was made of unhewn logs plastered with clay. The Kentucky Ranger Again, certain rough unhewn stones, which are kept in the sacred places, are thought to possess the power of driving people mad. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia As to the commandment to make the altar of earth, or of unhewn stones, this was given in order to remove idolatry. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Speak not of her, Cynisca, for I swear Enter Cynisca, unobserved The unhewn marble of Pentelicus Hath charms for me, which she, in all her glow Of womanly perfection, could not match. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform It was built of unhewn stone, and had small windows and loop-holes. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag The great, unhewn logs had to be all notched and fitted together, and the cracks filled in with clay. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs The Persians built no temples; but worshipped upon the summits of hills, in enclosures of unhewn stones. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry In one of his poems, Wordsworth tells a pathetic story of a straggling heap of unhewn stones, and the beginning of a sheepfold which was never finished. Making the Most of Life With the Chinese the difficulty is one of transport—the finished work is obviously lighter than the unhewn block. An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma Formerly comprising some hundreds of unhewn Sarsen stones, barely a score remain in position at the present day. Stonehenge Today and Yesterday An unhewn wall divided the house into two rooms, and in one room were gathered less than a dozen men-at-arms. The Lady of Fort St. John The entrance into the mound was through a low doorway with lintel and posts of unhewn stone. A Popular Schoolgirl Float on, then, like the sacred whispers from the unhewn forests! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 In many of these, the casts of unhewn logs are still visible, showing that the dead were placed in a rude vault, which was afterwards covered by soil. Mound-Builders The circular form, the horseshoe form, the unhewn Hele Stone, all bespeak religious origin. Stonehenge Today and Yesterday They are constructed of unhewn stones cemented with mud, and flanked by towers and angular projections something resembling bastions, and are pierced with loopholes for musquetry. A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy It was built of unhewn logs, and had a mud roof. Added Upon A Story A grey house among trees rose on the left with a quaint gateway of unhewn stone. The Half-Hearted These walls are made of rubble, or loose, unhewn stones, piled together with a kind of mortar, which is little more than clay baked hard in the heat of the sun. Fern's Hollow The figure was of white magnesium limestone, and stood upon rock yet unhewn. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt These were single rooms, built of unhewn logs, chinked and daubed with yellow mud. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 The cloth, on being withdrawn, exposed to view nothing but unhewn logs, and a recess of a few feet, containing a rude couch. The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance They are always open to the front, and instead of the rough unhewn block which should cover a dolmen they are roofed with a well-squared slab. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders I was happy in loitering about the haunts of Thoreau; in sitting, full of thought, by the unhewn granite tombstone of Emerson, near the quiet of his grave. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative They wove cloth of cotton and bark, they carved wood and built walls of unhewn stone. The Negro Very small, very rough, with its unhewn logs—the "stout little cabin" stood there waiting. The Twenty-Fourth of June The walls were merely unhewn logs, divested of the bark, and filled in with a tenacious clay resembling mortar. The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance Here then repose thee on this unhewn stone. The Seven Plays in English Verse His first business in Crawford's employ was daubing the cabin, which was built of unhewn logs with the bark on. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him Round the front of the cavern was a wide court-yard rudely fenced with huge blocks of stone and unhewn trunks of trees. Stories from the Odyssey The walls were of rough unhewn logs, filled between the chinks with moss and irregular wedges of wood to keep out the wind and rain. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Altogether in his aspect there was something aboriginal, as of a piece, of unhewn granite, which had never been polished to any approved pattern, whose natural and original vitality had never been tampered with. On the Choice of Books The most conspicuous remnant of other days in Cumberland is the druidical temple near Kirkoswald, consisting of a circle of sixty-seven unhewn stones, called Long Meg and her Daughters. Rides on Railways It was built of unhewn logs, and had holes for windows, in which greased paper served for glass. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him It is right that we should have more admiration for the sculptured marble than for the unhewn block of the quarry. The Abominations of Modern Society Old houses were his hobby, especially this which they approached,—a narrow, long building of unhewn stone, facing on the street, the lintels and doors worm-eaten, and green with moss. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Drake built a raft out of unhewn tree trunks and, setting up a biscuit bag as a sail, pushed out with two Frenchmen and one Englishman till he found his boats. Elizabethan Sea Dogs For building purposes, unhewn granite is chiefly used, the walls being afterwards smoothed over with a layer of plaster, whitewashed, and margined with yellow or blue. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 No trophy this—a Stone unhewn, And stands where here the field immures The nameless brave whose palms are won. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War The ceilings of all the rooms were supported by unhewn beams, five or six inches thick, deeply inserted into the adobe walls. Overland Upon every shelving projection of the unhewn stone structure was ice. Mistress Penwick The rest of the town is composed of ordinary buildings of unhewn stone, and huts of rushes and long grass, with narrow avenues winding between them. The Pirates Own Book Though he called it Manuel's camp from force of habit, that hot-blooded gentleman had not set foot over its unhewn doorsill for three weeks and more. The Gringos Leave ye your flesh-pots; turn from filthy greed Of gain that doth the thirsting spirit mock; And heaven shall drop sweet manna for your need, And rain clear rivers from the unhewn rock! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 To an immense piece of unhewn timber was attached a yoke of oxen, and, as this heavy log was drawn through the ditch, it seemed absolutely to float on a crushed mass of vegetable corruption. Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation A canvas had been padded in shape of unhewn stone and painted in imitation; the oil in the paint had ignited and despoiled the illusion. Mistress Penwick The Commons met in the court-house, a clapboarded building of unhewn logs, without windows, the light coming in through the door and through the chinks between the timbers. The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 Hence the Greeks, according to Pausanias, originally used unhewn stones to represent their deities, thirty of which that historian says he saw in the city of Pharas. The Symbolism of Freemasonry And if, once more, for cannon-balls we substitute rough, unhewn boulders, no definite stable form is possible. The Teaching of Jesus A small cabin of unhewn logs constituted the only improvement on the "claim," but a new house of hewn logs was soon erected and a forty-acre field inclosed with split rails. Reminiscences of a Pioneer Inside this circle is another of rough unhewn stones of varying shapes and sizes. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter There was no floor other than the bare earth, and there were no seats other than unhewn logs. Round Anvil Rock A Romance Stones of a cubical form, which were originally unhewn, by which the Greeks at first represented all their deities. The Symbolism of Freemasonry And I stood on the unhewn stones of the edge of the quay, and looked abroad over a largish piece of unpaved ground, which lay between the first house-row and the quay. The Purple Cloud It then ascended the huge Columns of unhewn stone, glided along the roof, and formed the Cavern into an immense chamber totally covered with blue trembling fire. The Monk; a romance Everywhere around us are unhewn rocks stirred with a strange motion. Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire Deeps of unhewn woods Alone can cherish thee, alone possess Thy quiet, teeming vigor. A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass Through the crevices in the planks he caught a view of unhewn slabs and blocks of stone roughly cemented together, which passers-by might still have seen there ten years ago. Les Misérables Beside the brook There is a straggling heap of unhewn stones! Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, 1800, Volume 2 It was originally about twelve feet thick, and constructed with small unhewn stones, loosely cemented and covered by larger square stones, equally ill cemented. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land It consisted of a few unhewn logs laid upon each other, to the height of eight or ten feet, including a quadrangular space of similar dimensions, and covered by a thatch. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker The round, unhewn logs showed their form everywhere; the crevices were calked with moss; and the walls were warm and tight. A Modern Instance But they are traversed in various directions by lines of flat unhewn rock slabs, placed at slightly irregular distances from one another, exactly like stepping-stones across a brook. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series The sides and sloping roof of the shrine are formed by slabs of unhewn rock. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series At some unrecorded date in the past a rather absurd-looking grotto had for some reason been built here of rough unhewn stones. The Possessed (The Devils) To lay unhewn and unshaped stones together, so as to make a road or way. The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire Here rest thee on this unhewn seat of rock; The journey for thy aged feet was long. Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles Two large stones, unhewn and without inscriptions of any sort, have been placed before the shrine. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series The edge, as it were, of a sunbeam lit up the rude chamber crossed with unhewn beams and roofed above with unconcealed tiles, whose fastening pegs were visible. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Almost all the houses are built of unhewn stones, piled one upon another, and two or three gloomy holes form door and windows through which the swallows fly out and in. True Story of My Life The walls, of unhewn stone laid in clay, were not particularly well built and resemble in many respects the ruins at Choqquequirau. Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru Not alone This thought divine hides in the streams and woods, Seeking expression through their solitudes, Perchance e'en lies it in this unhewn stone. Poems These stones, however, were unhewn and of moderate size. Memories of Hawthorne The first specimens of Greek sculpture were rough, unhewn wooden representations of the gods. Mosaics of Grecian History The recollections of our fellow-passengers were interesting as to the few years ago, when the very country we were passing through was a dense mass of similar unhewn timber. God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada He afterwards exchanged the "camp" for the more ambitious "cabin," but his cabin, was "a rough, rough log one," made of unhewn timber, and without floor, door or window. Lectures and Essays The pines divide with an unhewn granite boulder the honor of being his monument. History of American Literature The cottage was of stone and lime, nowise the less thoroughly built that the stones were unhewn. Warlock o' Glenwarlock These timbers were covered with loose unhewn stone common to the neighborhood. Four Months in a Sneak-Box No fine arabesque carvings, but strong, unhewn, native traits, and deep lines of care, toil, and human sympathy. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers This, partitioned and covered simply with unhewn logs, served not only as a pen for sheep and pigs, but as a roasting-place for the feathered portion of the stock. Hardscrabble; or, the fall of Chicago. a tale of Indian warfare Thine are the outcrops' glittering blocks, The quartz where the rich pyrites gleam, The golden treasure of unhewn rocks And the loose gold in the stream. Last Poems For no stress at all is laid upon having always the same sacrificial seat, whether fixed or to be moved about from place to place; earth and unhewn stones /2/ of the field **************************************** 2. Prolegomena So does the painter see his picture; and the sculptor his statue in the unhewn stone. The Good Time Coming He saw that he was in a village of low houses, with walls of unhewn stone, enclosing yards, and set in the midst of fruit-trees and gardens. A Modern Telemachus There is a soberness in a rough aspect, as of unhewn granite, which addresses a depth in us, but a polished surface hits only the ball of the eye. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers To each is given iron and unhewn timber, to some more and to some less, with which to fashion his craft. Letters of Franklin K. Lane It was a rough structure of unhewn stones situated in a wood. The Dragon and the Raven Write this, and stick the paper on an unhewn stone in the field before sunrise, taking care to keep the written side up.” The Golden Bough "GhashÝm" = a "Johnny Raw" from the root "Ghashm" = iniquity: Builders apply the word to an unhewn stone; addressed to a person it is considered slighting, if not insulting. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 The one which is best preserved consists of large unhewn stones of rectangular shape, enclosing an inner chamber about six feet in width. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples It is not at all ornamental: rough, unhewn arches and clumsy piers.' A Laodicean : a Story of To-day For a Stone unhewn has been set up for Neptune, and divers other shapes far different from the shapes they conceived of their Gods. Leviathan However, in occasions of merriment, they were first practised; and this rough-cast, unhewn poetry was instead of stage-plays for the space of a hundred and twenty years together. Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry A very steep staircase, of unhewn stone, which was called by distinction "the ladder," led to the upper platform, upon which was visible a horizontal wheel of solid oak. Notre-Dame De Paris The walls are faced with unhewn stones, the outer side of which still retains a natural appearance, while the inner is corroded and disintegrated. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples Looking round once more, with his hand already in his pocket, he noticed against the outer wall, between the entrance and the sink, a big unhewn stone, weighing perhaps sixty pounds. Crime and Punishment On one side, within a floating boom, lies a fleet of masts and unhewn logs, tethered uneasily, like a herd of captive sea-monsters, rocking in the ripples. Oldport Days They were built of unhewn stone, but solid, and not inelegant. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Jagged pieces of yet unhewn sandstone they were, with cruel edges. Painted Windows At Rovesche, the urn was placed in a square chest made of unhewn stones. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples Unpolished he certainly was, but the rough, exposed grain of his unhewn nature showed many strata of strength and virility. Other Things Being Equal The place was then chiefly remarkable for a pier which, in the days of the Plantagenets, had been constructed of stones, unhewn and uncemented. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 So he guided her down the numerous tiers of the flat stones Which, in an unhewn state, served as steps to the walk through the foliage. The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres His tomb, as were the resting-places of his neighbors in death, was covered over with a huge unhewn stone, and beside him lay another skeleton. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples CHULPAS, generally of square or rectangular form, consist of a mass of unhewn stones faced outside with blocks of trachyte or basalt, painted red, yellow, or white. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples The walls are of unhewn stones, piled up without cement, and they form two circles, separated by a passage four feet wide. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples At Solutre is a sepulchre formed of unhewn slabs of stone. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples Very often the corpse was placed between large unhewn stones to keep off from it the weight of the tumulus above. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples |
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