| 单词 | honeycombed |
| 例句 | He bent expertly between barbed wire strands and crossed a wide, soggy, overgrazed field, part of which was honeycombed with treacherous hummocks and leached-out grass clumps. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But beneath the forest floor is a world honeycombed with the tunnels and runways of small mammals — whitefooted mice, voles, and shrews of various species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Behind this common burial ground the rough face of the cliff was honeycombed with the better tombs of artisans and scribes and merchants, carved into the rock itself. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Passages and corridors honeycombed the walls and wound their way from floor to ceiling, up and down the sides of the cave. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z A morel resembles a tanned finger wearing a dark and deeply honeycombed dunce cap. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In a foreshadowing of the impending disaster, we learn that the tightfisted owners have been cutting corners, "gambling with the miners' lives" to squeeze profit from the depths of the wheezing, honeycombed mountain. Hector Tobar's 'Deep Down Dark' chronicles Chile's mine-shaft miracle 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Yet the outlines of purged paint create honeycombed lines, often reversed into darker areas. In the galleries: The roots of these gardens run deep 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Eight years ago there were other impressions to attend to, made by the honeycombed ceilings and ornamented stucco, the interweaving geometries on tiles and stone, the views of tall cypresses and corrugated rooftops. Exhibition Review: Temptations Found in Gardens of Islamic Delight 2011-05-20T23:27:00Z As readers who love the Diamond series know, the picture-perfect old British city, honeycombed with sluices, drains and sewers, offers unrivaled facilities for disposing of bodies. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z In the 20th century the tunnel was linked by secret lines and tunnels to a complex of military stores and shelters, burrowed into a hill already honeycombed with old quarry works. Brunel's Great Western railway given preservation head of steam 2012-07-30T00:00:01Z A muqarnas dome is a type of honeycombed dome unique to Islamic architecture. Islamic State reported to destroy historic tombs in ancient city of Palmyra, Syria 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z But most notable is the undulating, honeycombed roof of the structure, made from polyurethane-covered wood and held together by a new type of glue. In Transit: Metrosol Parasol, Huge Wooden Structure, Debuts in Seville 2011-04-29T17:00:40Z The film provides a fascinating history lesson in the guise of backstage drama, honeycombed with antique-looking TV commercials full of Lycra-clad dancers and gambolling mimes. Cannes 2012 diary: day three 2012-05-18T14:59:42Z Hikers can enter the silence of one of the small, semicircular chambers and imagine a contemplative looking out from the same entrance — toward a wall of beige granite honeycombed with scoop-like craters. The Austere Beauty of Egypt’s Long-Distance Hiking Trails 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z The earliest LED systems consisted of red, blue and green light arrayed in a honeycombed lamp. ‘Elton John of the fountain world’ shows just how far water features have come 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z At the heart of it all is Pyrgos at Tinos’s northern tip, honeycombed with sculptors’ ateliers, picturesque paths and marble carvings framed by fuchsia bougainvillea. 6 Places in Europe Offering Shelter From the Crowds 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z The combination of the interior’s honeycombed white skin and the curvaceous, layered seating areas creates the not unpleasant impression of being in a beehive. What does this critic hear at the new Elbphilharmonie concert hall? The sound of the future 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z His idea is to produce classics like a crisp-skinned croissant with a properly honeycombed interior, but also to disrupt the category. A Workshop for the Cronut King 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z As usual with things Broad-related there's a bit of controversy percolating as his museum opens — lawsuits between the Broad and contractors involved in fabricating and installing its honeycombed façade. Eli Broad, white knight and lightning rod, gets ready to open his own museum 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z On Saturday, Bozik will lead a workshop in harvesting honey from the hives, a job that includes putting honeycombed frames in an extractor. In a monastery garden, Pope Francis’s environmental message is taken to heart 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Because the city is honeycombed with hundreds of such education and recreational areas, the practical impact would be overlapping safety zones reaching broadly across the city. Speed cameras would be widespread 2011-10-26T03:43:00Z It looks heavy, but the inside of the tabletop isn’t solid; it’s honeycombed. | Q&A: French Designer Matali Crasset on Her Concrete Collection 2013-01-23T23:51:15Z In reality, U.S. law is honeycombed with examples of preferential treatment and special breaks for religion. Five ways churches get preferential treatment and benefit from legal loopholes 2012-07-31T05:25:00Z “This ground was honeycombed with little cabins,” he said. Journeys: In Virginia, Touring Lesser-Known Civil War Sites 2011-04-29T20:30:10Z About an hour south of Ljubljana, the country’s Karst region is honeycombed with a vast network of caves and underground rivers. Ancient artwork and natural wonders in Europe’s best caves 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z That sense of exigency is honeycombed with grief. Israeli voices questioning war are faint: 'Some people are calling us traitors' 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z But the ground operation, which now encircles Gaza City, is entering an acutely perilous phase, with Israelis troops advancing in an urban landscape that is honeycombed with tunnels and home to many Palestinians. As Gaza War Enters New Phase, Israel Faces Pressure Over Civilian Deaths 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z The valley above Hood River is honeycombed with farms that have also become destinations where one can handpick fruit, snack outside on picnic tables and bring the dog. Beyond camping and festivals, the Gorge is the PNW’s prime playground 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Instead, he said, the card was probably issued because Putin and his colleagues were granted routine access to Stasi facilities that honeycombed Dresden. Super spy or paper pusher? How Putin's KGB years in East Germany helped shape him 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z More than 550 Americans are reported as missing in Mexico, a little-known facet of a broader tragedy that has honeycombed this country with mass graves. Matamoros victims found, but 550 Americans are still missing in Mexico 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z It is a world that seems by its very nature to be pastoral and calm but which is honeycombed with problems, including climate change, competition from cultured honeybees, shrinking habitat and pesticides. Bumblebees can be classified as 'fish' under California conservation law, court says 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z “Nattily garbed in a double-breasted brown suit with white chalk stripes,” the mustachioed Menjou told the committee that “Hollywood is honeycombed with Communists who ‘rigidly’ follow the Moscow Party line,” the Associated Press reported. Before Bannon, ‘Hollywood Ten’ were jailed for contempt of Congress 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z The resulting porous crystal structure is so fully honeycombed with pockets that a chunk the size of a sugar cube can contain several football fields’ worth of internal surface area. ‘Portable Oasis’ Extracts Water from Dry Desert Air 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z There is no question that building on tidal wetlands and permeable limestone honeycombed by seawater is problematic. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Two days after the Surfside condo collapse was the wrong time for speculation 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z “That island was honeycombed; there were caves all over it.” 100-year-old Kentucky soldier remains upbeat despite tragedy 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z Areas off the river’s east bank near downtown L.A., for example, were described by home lenders as being honeycombed with “diverse and subversive racial elements,” according to the river master plan. Frank Gehry's bold plan to upgrade the L.A. River seeks to atone for past injustices 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z The gold-coated, honeycombed mirror will be cooled so it can collect the infrared light of distant objects, red-shifted by the universe’s expansion. The science stories likely to make headlines in 2021 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z They are honeycombed with pits for these cells, though the cells themselves are missing. This Unusual Bird Superpower Goes Back to the Dinosaur Extinction 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Convinced that the intelligence community is a “deep state,” honeycombed with traitors, the president rarely believes anything the CIA tells him. Opinion | Donald Trump, the unbriefable president 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z For almost a thousand years, artists added new caves until the cliff face was honeycombed with painted corridors and recesses. A Poetic Journey Through Western China 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z With 40,000 puffins on May, parts of the island are completely honeycombed below the surface, a subterranean network that is the birds' private domain. Is this still the best place to be a puffin? 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z The malls are honeycombed with shops where women of all ages and a few older men sell underwear, electronics and an array of other inexpensive products under fluorescent lights. Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere Into the Center of the World Economy? 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z At the time, Frank Wilkes, an owner of Capps Mine on the outskirts of Charlotte, told the newspaper: “Seversville is honeycombed with tunnels and there is plenty of gold there yet.” Is there an actual gold mine under Charlotte? 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Berry said that Francis’s letter was a first step — but that to go further he would have to contest a “calcified power structure that is honeycombed with secrecy.” Pope Francis: ‘No effort must be spared’ to prevent Catholic Church abuses 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Building the spaceship’s frame was labor-intensive: you had to bind together sheets of honeycombed carbon by applying resin, cut the sheets into shapes with laser-guided precision, and bake each piece in a Celotex oven. Virgin Galactic’s Rocket Man 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z The freshwater canals that once honeycombed through the city earned it the name the Venice of the East. Basra was once a jewel of a city. Now it's a symbol what's wrong in Iraq 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z First, air is channelled by fans onto a honeycombed plastic slab called a contactor, where CO2, which is acidic, reacts with aqueous potassium hydroxide, which is alkaline. Extracting carbon dioxide from the air is possible. But at what cost? 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z This is a ‘melting pot’ area and is literally honeycombed with diverse and subversive racial elements. Roads to nowhere: how infrastructure built on American inequality 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z The insurgents had honeycombed the area around their base. The Boys From Baga 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Dr. Selwyn told the author only what he could bear to tell, in a narration honeycombed with elisions: we know little, truly, of even a close friend’s interiority. W. G. Sebald, Humorist 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z The Iraqi sandwich is made up of earthy fried eggplant, slow-cooked eggs, hummus and an array of veggies, served in that delightfully soft and warm pita, honeycombed with air bubbles. Review: Belltown’s Eggs & Plants offers bold flavors and the fluffiest pitas 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z A network of mining tunnels honeycombed the so-called Richest Hill on Earth. Hordes of Geese Die on a Toxic Lake in Montana 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Suriname toads develop in eggs embedded in the mom’s back and eventually erupt out of the honeycombed holes, according to Greg Pauly, curator of herpetology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. A Frog Whose Babies Pop Out of Its Back and More Freaky Animals It’s thick, in a Sicilian mode, but the inch of crust is honeycombed with air bubbles, never heavy. 6 Seattle spots for truly great pizza 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z The front was a cast-iron frame honeycombed into thirty-six cells. The Long Dig 2008-09-15T04:00:00Z The piece they discovered, about a meter long, is fiberglass composite with honeycombed aluminum inside. A One-Man Quest for Answers in Malaysian Jet’s Disappearance 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z In particular, it said, the E.P.A. does not adequately “analyze the geologic and hydrologic conditions of the general area” or comprehend how, in a region honeycombed with tunnels, changing conditions in one affect the others. Study Faults E.P.A. for Toxic Wastewater Spill in Colorado Rockies 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z I’d read that this stretch is honeycombed with old mines, but all we saw were wide green valleys and forested mountainsides. A Surprisingly Luxe Cycling Trip Though the Rust Belt 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z The teal painted boxes, like the honeycombed frames inside, Francis made by hand. Man who considered ministry becomes ‘bee preacher’ instead 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z Players scoot or soar over futuristic astroturf fields honeycombed in weird symbology and enclosed within translucent hexagonal domes. Here's Why Everybody Loves This Bizarre New Soccer Game 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z He just insists that he stayed within the bounds of Virginia law, which, lucky for him, is honeycombed with loopholes. McDonnells’ ‘twisted love story’ has an important lesson about public ethics She brought bone fragments to Larson, who recognized their honeycombed structure immediately as little bits of T. rex. In the World of Big Lizards, Peter Larson is a Big Name Piacenti lifted a cross-section of a roof beam, honeycombed with termite tunnels. The Church of the Nativity, Jesus’s birthplace, gets its first repairs in more than 500 years They contain a ceramic honeycombed core coated with metals such as platinum, palladium and rhodium. Catalytic converter thefts double 2013-11-06T06:02:27Z The machines, which are made of a series of honeycombed cells surrounding a sensor, automatically check for dangerous-looking items and sniff for chemicals and nuclear material. At the Airport of the Future, Even the Security Check Is Self-Service 2013-10-22T14:59:46Z The branch is leaky, overcrowded, poorly air-conditioned and honeycombed with small office spaces librarians no longer use, officials say. A Deal Spares a Brooklyn Library, for Now 2013-06-18T16:43:24Z The air in the greenhouse is kept humid and cool by trickling water over a wall of honeycombed cardboard evaporative pads through which air is driven by wind and fans. Growing food in the desert: is this the solution to the world's food crisis? 2012-11-24T21:00:01Z Musty papers, files, books and photos, some honeycombed with termites, litter its stifling interior. South Sudan's history emerges - from a tent 2012-05-24T11:20:04Z The whole country in the vicinity of Cong seems to be honeycombed by subterranean waters. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z They mined and countermined, until the whole area had been honeycombed. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z The barren mountain that looks off upon the great Libyan desert, is honeycombed with vast and silent halls of the dead. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z He had a once-enormous rent roll, that had been sadly honeycombed by his mad extravagances, but that still totaled one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z The pack in the offing consisted of floes from five to six feet thick, with occasionally older and heavier floes, ten to twelve feet in thickness, but always much decayed and honeycombed. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Walter Pater's essay on Style is honeycombed with involutions and preciosity. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The table rock is honeycombed with a number of artificial chambers, some of which are inhabited. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z The barren dry limestone of the Dalmatian highlands has been aptly compared with a petrified sponge; for it is honeycombed with underground caverns and water-courses, into which the rainfall is at once filtered. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Some industrial buildings are honeycombed with artists’ studios. | Wallabout, Brooklyn: Wallabout, Brooklyn/Living In - At the Intersection of History and Industry 2012-01-20T20:05:18Z The country, honeycombed with treason, overrun with hungry exiles hastening home to a bed with clean linen, and a well-filled pantry, hailed the ragged sansculottes as the bringers of a new day of light. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z The secret societies aided by English encouragement have honeycombed the country until the terror of the lodges invaded every institution and home in the land. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z The largest or main reef runs for thirty miles uninterruptedly, gold-bearing and honeycombed with mines throughout. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z Persis, herself now an Isolde wedded to one man and loving another, passed the famous sky-line which seemed to continue another Palisades, only fantastically carved and honeycombed with windows. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Enclosing the city are the steep, barren mountain sides honeycombed with mines. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z His kingdom was honeycombed with Christianity, and he wished to draw closer to the West, where he foresaw the victory of the new faith, in order to fortify his realm against the Sassanids of Persia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Kimberley, in spite of the severest penalties, the most deterrent legislation, is still eaten up and honeycombed by the vile and illicit traffic in diamonds.” From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z For a clutch of battle-hardened generals, the fortress-like quality of their planned city—with a vast military zone inaccessible to normal citizens and honeycombed with tunnels and other martial trappings—must have been reassuring. The Road to Naypyidaw: What Hillary Clinton Will See in Burma 2011-11-14T14:10:00Z The walls are honeycombed with small parallelogrammatic niches, in each of which was set a funeral vase or box. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z Frequently, over the dead, vast mounds were raised, which were honeycombed, subsequently, with cells for the burial of others. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z There is quite a warren in the hill, which is honeycombed with dwellings of this savage kind. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z The shell of the earth above us is honeycombed by caverns in some places, in others it is compact, and yet, in most places, is impervious to water. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z The wooden roof of the nave is honeycombed, and like that of the Alhambra at Granada is arranged with splendidly coloured and gilded pendentives. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Bordering upon this we found a whole hill-side honeycombed with columbaria. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z The top of the hill is most certainly an extinct volcano, while the base is honeycombed with fissures like the volcano of Monotombo. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z Many of the great cañons are known to be honeycombed with openings almost large enough to hide a small city in. Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires 2011-09-22T02:00:25.017Z This fruit was likewise green in color, each spore, or berry, being from two to three inches in diameter, and honeycombed on the surface, corrugated most beautifully. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z The streets were honeycombed with quaint booths, and crowded with human beings going in and out of them like bees. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z He enumerates evils which honeycombed society with rottenness then, and are rampant now. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z A rapid glance astern showed the glistening reef towering several feet above the little craft, the white foam pouring down the honeycombed ridges as if the rock were baring itself to strike a harder blow. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z This is because of the sea-arcades of which it consists, for from the westward the island has been honeycombed by the waves. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z Sometimes the depth of the several limestone and conglomerate deposits is great, and they are often honeycombed by innumerable transverse and diagonal spaces. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z They managed to get as far as Presqu' Isle, partly on the honeycombed ice, and partly in the woods, when they found themselves face to face with an ice jam. The History of the Post Office in British North America 2011-08-31T02:01:37.743Z Inside the field the fence's foot was overgrown with tussocks of long grass, honeycombed by runways. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z Our shouts encouraged the brave dog; the buffalo rose with him on its hind legs and fell backwards on the ground, while we ran up and honeycombed it with pistol bullets. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z But this proved to be one of the innumerable blind ways which intersect the honeycombed slopes of the Isle of Caves. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z I have referred only to the surface, the skin formation of this honeycombed labyrinth, the entrance to the future wonderland of the world. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z The truth is, as Sir James Frazer reminds us, that modern society is honeycombed with superstitions that are not in themselves a whit more intellectually respectable than those which dominate the minds of savages. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z It is a house full of electric wires and tubes—literally honeycombed with modern conveniences. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 2011-07-17T02:00:36.813Z The houses of the village were honeycombed by shot. Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z The mountain sides here and there were simply honeycombed with caves. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z We passed through miles and miles of cut sandbanks, which were completely honeycombed by a species of martin, which were then busy nesting. A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado 2011-07-03T02:00:07.507Z The war services were honeycombed with men who were big-gun experts. Our Army at the Front 2011-06-26T02:00:07.933Z The Masons retorted by charging that some priests were members of that sect, and that the parish confraternities were honeycombed with masonry. The Friars in the Philippines 2011-06-17T02:00:20.100Z For such creatures night is the season of activity; by day they could choose the climate best suited to them,—among the deep, dark cavern-clefts with which this tumbled chaos is honeycombed. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z Its three major national parties are still confined to cramped Manhattan offices that are plastered with gaudy posters and honeycombed with pamphlets for distribution and envelopes for stuffing. Workers of the World, Please See Our Web Site 2011-05-23T01:54:21Z When we fall we fall as travelers disappear who walk across a coast that is honeycombed with quicksand. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z In this period of transition even the judiciary was sometimes honeycombed with politics. Overshadowed A Novel 2011-05-07T02:00:24.483Z The rugged, rocky region of Tora Bora is honeycombed with caves, some of which were used by the mujahedeen in their standoff against the Soviet Army in the 1980s. In Long Pursuit of Bin Laden, the Raid That Just Missed 2011-05-06T11:49:06Z Here in Clapdale—a dale which penetrates the slopes of Ingleborough—is the famous Ingleborough Cave, the deepest and most remarkable of all the caves hitherto discovered in the honeycombed flanks of that remarkable hill. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z In front of my house there were, as I have said, the places we call the Chasms, wherein the rock of this hungry coast is honeycombed into a hundred deep gullies by the sea. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z Because it owns the honeycombed buildings the school uses, the meeting is liable if a student running to class should fall and sustain an injury. Quakers and Elite School Share Uneasy Ground 2011-04-01T01:54:42Z Mainly in the north but scattered throughout the area are the remains of dwellings built in natural recesses of cliffs, while in some places the cliff face is honeycombed with masonry to provide habitations. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The picture-loving public, in the minds of the censors, seems to be honeycombed with potential murderers, incendiaries, and counterfeiters. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z The snow, tarnished and honeycombed with dark cellular perforations, was melting and slipping down the ravines. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z I expect Mr. Gaunt has told you that all this part of Derbyshire is limestone rock, and it is honeycombed with caves. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z I was at the airport in Mexico City a month or so ago, at the new Terminal 2 -- an airy, if cheerless structure of fragile-looking honeycombed concrete. What if an earthquakes strikes as a plane is landing? 2011-03-14T20:30:00Z Constitutional law is of course honeycombed with fictions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z The neighbourhood of Cong is remarkable for its natural curiosities, for the ground to the north toward Lough Mask is honeycombed with caves, made by the water working its way through to Lough Corrib. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Old "grandpas" drifted by—their sides honeycombed by the action of the water. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z These insects were so industrious that one stump was a crumbling mass, so laboriously had it been honeycombed. Settling Day 2011-03-08T03:00:36.623Z He mounted a little rise that was literally honeycombed with the burrows of striped gophers and stopped to watch. Swamp Cat 2011-03-06T03:00:20.453Z In front of the entanglements the ground had been honeycombed with mines, and strewn with sharpened stakes and obstacles of all kinds. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z Rising to the height of two hundred feet, they are crossed by vermilion bands of lava, honeycombed with a thousand cavities and fissures, and overgrown in parts with the most brilliant vegetation. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Old "grandpas" floated by—grimy and honeycombed from the action of the brine. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z Italy was nearly, if not quite, as badly honeycombed with heretics as Languedoc had been. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z In reality, however, many of these popular workers were already moribund and the novel was being honeycombed by French influence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z They had lined the steep slopes with trenches, and had honeycombed them with shelters and dug-outs. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z Even all the sides and slopes of the great rock were honeycombed into sacred grottos, with their altars and their gods, or studded with votive monuments. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z The Empire was honeycombed with the new faith. A Short History of Germany 2011-02-14T03:00:40.360Z In addition to its true stomach, with its peculiar cell-like lining, it has a second stomach, or honeycombed paunch. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z It is no longer a society which can be represented as honeycombed with conspiracies, or given up to disorder. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z Ridges of honeycombed snow lay in the cold, sunless hollows of the woods, slowly melting as each succeeding noon brought milder weather. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z The ground was honeycombed by the shells which had been thrown from the mortars of the Ninth Corps. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z Napoleon was uncertain and touchy; his marshals were honeycombed with disaffection; the populations, though flashing like powder at his touch, had nowhere risen en masse. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z “You know Mr. Emory said this locality is honeycombed with them.” Voice from the Cave 2011-01-04T03:01:09.533Z The atria are comparatively small, the walls being thin, especially those of the right, which possesses numerous muscular ridges projecting into the cavity presenting a honeycombed appearance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z All honeycombed inside with holes for thousands and thousands of pigeons. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z With my glass at that time I could see that the wall was badly honeycombed; a close inspection now proved that the fire was very damaging. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z On the following day I was again upon the same glacier, and noticed in many cases the white ice-seams exquisitely honeycombed. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. It was found that the Germans had honeycombed the village with outposts and machine-gun emplacements. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. The walls of St. Elmo were already honeycombed by the shot of the enemy, but the idea of surrendering to the Turks did not even enter the minds of its brave though weary defenders. The Story of Malta You know that the country was honeycombed with secret societies, more or less dangerous. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 Very probably, they thought, they had been hiding in some of the caves that honeycombed the region, and sooner or later they would have to reappear. Unexplored! The ice was riven, burrowed, and honeycombed, but the track amid all was easy: a vigorous English maiden might have ascended the fall without much difficulty. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. Every stone road, unless properly built with small stones and just enough binding material to fill the voids, presents a honeycombed appearance. The Future of Road-making in America The great boroughs were honeycombed with sokes, or areas of seignorial jurisdiction, within which the royal reeve’s authority was greatly restricted while that of the lord’s reeve took precedence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Now that he knew the condition of the honeycombed tunnel, Ballard hesitated to make it the raceway for the tremendously augmented torrent. The King of Arcadia With these and the regular breastworks the ground was completely honeycombed. Personal Recollections of the Civil War By One Who Took Part in It as a Private Soldier in the 21st Volunteer Regiment of Infantry from Massachusetts In a society honeycombed with vice He stood perfect, untouched by evil. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I Also, if we consider the conditions of structural strength of the side of a ship honeycombed with oar-ports, and standing to the enormous height of 51 ft. Ancient and Modern Ships. Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships The middle of the fourth day they reached the crumbling, disintegrated mass of quartz, honeycombed with gold. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter In the genus Morchella the cap is deeply pitted and ridged so that it presents a honeycombed appearance. Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous But many a dark hole and crack on the face of this showed that the towering rampart was honeycombed by caves and labyrinthine galleries. Harley Greenoak's Charge This formation of honeycombed limestone is full of caverns, many of which lead into one another in chains, and which have invested the region with a sort of superstitious mystery. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series You would sooner play your violin at the Floral Hall in London than conduct the Imperial Opera in this city of St. Petersburg, honeycombed with spies, traitors, and actual or potential assassins?” The Intriguers The cliffs are honeycombed in all directions with military works. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" The gleba, or spore-bearing portion, in the early stage forms a conical honeycombed cap within the inner shell or membrane, concealing the stem to which it is attached. Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous One solitary gun was left, but that was honeycombed and could be fired only with half a charge to salute with. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses The upper ranks of the army were honeycombed by Clerical influences. A History of the Third French Republic He represents the religious Jewish world as honeycombed with hypocrisy of a plain and gross sort. St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. I A Practical Exposition One ball of marble was a honeycombed pattern, and called "fossil coral." Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place Fortunately Lindsay was given a half hour of final preparation in one of the small offices with which the above-ground building was honeycombed. The Ambassador The entire trunk seems to have been honeycombed, judging by the size of the talus of gnawed chips like sawdust piled up around its base. My First Summer in the Sierra With the first rosy streak I was out among my Indian neighbors, whose lodges honeycombed the beautiful beach. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) He had reset the net and was lashing an anchor line to a stake when suddenly the honeycombed shell crumbled beneath his feet. The Whelps of the Wolf They eagerly burrow under heavy objects, the weight of which causes them to crush the honeycombed earth. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place In the rocky outcrop at the top of their knoll he had found a cave with which this rock seemed honeycombed. Brood of the Dark Moon No doubt there was desperate fighting going on in the maze of underground tunnels, the intricate web of passages that honeycombed the earth below the mountains. The Variable Man It's a kind of foamy lava honeycombed with gas bubbles. The Flaming Mountain In the lakes the honeycombed ice was daily fading under the strengthening sun. The Whelps of the Wolf But it is plain that no river sinks from sight unless it finds porous or honeycombed rocks that let it through. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place In mixing concrete there is always a tendency for the stones to separate themselves from the sand and cement, and to form “pockets” of honeycombed concrete which are neither water-tight nor strong. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" He did not need many more tons of that honeycombed quartz to satisfy Mrs. Carter's most stringent exactions. The Song of the Wolf The cliff was honeycombed with small irregular caverns and rifts. The Portal of Dreams He became involved with some secret society; you know as well as I do—better, perhaps—that Russia is honeycombed with ’em. The Red Symbol I hardly know when it was I began to realize that the whole base of his nature was honeycombed with ennui, and that any structure reared upon it might topple at a moment's notice. Ancestors A Novel The great political fabric of the fathers, built from woful expenditure of patriotic effort and blood, is honeycombed with rot, and remains, a mere sham, to shame us before the world. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 And in the delights of that lovely drive, and in strolling amongst the rocks honeycombed till they look almost like lacework, the two friends forgot the evils of the impending separation. Little Frida A Tale of the Black Forest They wish the best, naturally, and all America is honeycombed with the wrong idea that the best costs the most. Euthenics, the science of controllable environment a plea for better living conditions as a first step toward higher human efficiency This whole ridge, you know, is honeycombed with caverns and tunnels. Boy Scouts on the Great Divide or, The Ending of the Trail Hard by, a few shards of ruined castle overhang the sea, a few vaults, and one tall gable honeycombed with windows. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers He came originally from the romantic school, where history was honeycombed with imagination and conjecture; and the first important book he gave to a pupil in 1850 was Creuzer's Mythology. The History of Freedom The whole Second Empire undermined by corruption; the army, head and front, honeycombed with loose morals, favoritism, and boundless conceit,—we begin to perceive the main reasons underlying the utter defeat of a gallant nation. A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day But clients were slow in coming, for the city was honeycombed with established offices. The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time Oil Cooler: The drum-shaped honeycombed cooler was replaced by a spiral pipe type located between the engine cowl and the crankcase. The First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard Model DR-980 of 1928 Whatever the secret of those sculptured monsters, this much is historically certain, that a dualistic, profoundly pessimist belief had honeycombed Christianity throughout Provence and Northern and Central Italy. Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion The whole spot up and behind the corner of the road was so honeycombed by the works of the intended canal as to afford hiding-places and retreats for a score of murderers. The Landleaguers The entire headland is said to be honeycombed with them——' 'Hullo, good people!' cried a soft little voice from overhead, followed by a triumphant laugh. The Adventure League My refuge was not the only hole in sheer rock; it was literally honeycombed. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 The Russian imperial services are honeycombed by revolutionary intrigues. The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War Mas draws a vivid picture of some of the alcaldes which shows that the system is honeycombed with graft. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. Our social life is honeycombed and rotten with secret hidden relationships. The Passionate Friends As the quantity of connective tissue is increased the tumor is firmer and of a more honeycombed appearance. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle But that estate was honeycombed with hereditary debt, the result of generations of lavish living, wasteful methods of agriculture, and over-generous hospitality. A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs In addition to the armadillos, the ground is in many places honeycombed by the bischachas, which somewhat in size and appearance resemble rabbits, and by a little burrowing owl. Out on the Pampas Or, The Young Settlers This antique, yellow, Moorish-looking stronghold—which modern gunnery would destroy in about eight minutes—is picturesque to the last degree, with its crumbling, honeycombed battlements, and queer little flanking turrets, grated windows, and shadowy towers. Due South or Cuba Past and Present He was indeed saturated with alcohol and honeycombed with disease; repulsive in appearance, and cantankerous in character, his earnings were so slender that he was pitifully clad, and without a night's lodging oftener than not. The Camera Fiend To a great degree it was necessary, for French society, high and low, was honeycombed with Royalist plots, some of them hardly worthy of a cause which called itself religious as well as royal. Angelot A Story of the First Empire The whole Earth is honeycombed with their guards. Slaves of Mercury ‘Mind how you gallop, boys: the ground is honeycombed with armadillo holes; and if your horse treads in one, you will go over his head.’ Out on the Pampas Or, The Young Settlers And there in a lonely spot, on one of the spurs of the Carpathian Mountains, honeycombed by caves and thick with trees, the couple made their home. Dreamers of the Ghetto During the war the whole North was honeycombed with secret societies, whose members denounced Lincoln as a usurper and a bloody monster, and maintained that the government had no right to coerce the South. Raiding with Morgan The Moon was honeycombed by such craters, and perhaps the white flame connected them all, made them all one. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 Behind these were numbers of temples and palaces, while the tombs of the kings and queens were excavated in a valley further back, whose precipitous sides were honeycombed with the rock sepulchers of the wealthy. The Cat of Bubastes A Tale of Ancient Egypt She was quite deaf; and so, barred from the splendors of this magician's inner court, she ever watched his face with a curiosity that honeycombed her very life. Melomaniacs The grounds are honeycombed in all directions with mines; silver is king. Aztec Land What if the state of Indiana was honeycombed with camps of the Knights of the Golden Circle? Raiding with Morgan Then I understood that the graveyard was honeycombed with cellars, and that this place formed the central depôt of Iredale’s traffic and his distributing station. The Hound From The North Rhodes guided his horse carefully around a barranca edge, honeycombed by gophers, and then let his eyes rest again on the lustrous confiding eyes, and the rose-leaf lips. The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine A colossal Acropolis was once here, fragments of whose walls are now standing; and the rocky foundation is honeycombed with secret passages and openings. Italy, the Magic Land I have seen more of spies than have you, Mr. Webster—I know how Europe is honeycombed with them. The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue It did not look like a very promising place for opposition to the Federal government, but Calhoun afterwards learned that the place was honeycombed with members of the Knights of the Golden Circle. Raiding with Morgan I suppose now that place is honeycombed with cellars for the storage of––of––yellow. The Hound From The North Americus was honeycombed and carefully watched and searched for persons inducing negroes to migrate, as there was a large exodus of negroes from this city to the tobacco fields of Connecticut. Negro Migration during the War Beaumont-Hamel lies in the fold of a ridge and was honeycombed with dugouts and the defenses so cunningly prepared that it was extremely difficult for the British artillery to destroy them. The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources Europe might be honeycombed with intrigue and over-run with spies, but they would find their occupation gone on this side of the water! The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue In places the ground was honeycombed with their small tunnels, endangering the legs of horses and oxen, which would break through the crust of ground into them. A Gold Hunter's Experience But instead we come, about noon, through a savage glen beset with blood-red rocks and honeycombed with black caves on the other side of the ravine, to the so-called "Inn of the Good Samaritan." Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit The land was honeycombed with special arrangements of innumerable forms, all secret, because otherwise they would have been useless, and all forced upon the carriers by the exigencies of unbridled competition. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses The southern side of the mountain sloping down to the Pevmica was honeycombed with elaborately constructed caverns, drilled out of the solid rock by the Italians. The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources We saw, too, that the ground was literally honeycombed, and we dived down these burrows, out of the reach of the trees. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 The Terrestrian knew that he was being carried down into one of the myriad openings that honeycombed the terrain. The Great Dome on Mercury The lots were small, and the ground was already perfectly honeycombed with holes. Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California We might have taken the serious attitude, and inquired how far the female mind, through the increasing number of Anglo-American marriages in our international high life, has become honeycombed with monarchism. Imaginary Interviews Whispers gave a story that the higher parts were honeycombed with strange caves; and all the countryside knew that away in Barnesdale were the headquarters and camps of Will o' th' Green. Robin Hood That would indicate that all the earth around here is honeycombed like a gigantic section of sponge. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 There was a cabin in a side gully of the park, near the blocked entrance, the whole place was honeycombed with caves, in the towering sidewalls and underground. Rimrock Trail Think how they beat and tear, and drive and drag, until even the hardest rock, like basalt, becomes honeycombed into strange galleries and passages—Fingal's Cave, for instance—and the softer parts are crumbled away. Pioneers of Science The surface of the Moon round Tycho is honeycombed with small volcanoes. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' The surface is often remarkably honeycombed, and the rock weathers into pinnacles, pillars and arches of extraordinary shapes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Can it be that our planet is honeycombed with such hollows as this we are in? Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 The two claims on Red Ruin became as honeycombed as a wasp’s nest. Colorado Jim Our churches are honeycombed with doubt and with indifference. A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions The ministry itself is more or less permeated and honeycombed with the abominations called 'Higher Criticism,' 'Evolution,' etc. Doctor Jones' Picnic Military critics had long been aware that the army of India was antiquated, honeycombed with dry-rot, and largely ruled by favorites sitting in high places at Whitehall. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan The caves here, and those below Willapark, were once much haunted by seals; the coast being absolutely honeycombed by the constant fretting of the waves. The Cornwall Coast Failure was written all over the two honeycombed claims, but it never daunted him. Colorado Jim Except for a narrow beach the sides of this island are almost perpendicular, and the cliffs are honeycombed with dozens of water-worn caves. Wanderings in the Orient When His Excellency came to this colony he found it honeycombed with sedition. Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 The country back of Vicksburg was fairly honeycombed with shallow lakes, creeks, and those sluggish black streams called in the South bayous. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 Annet, one of the largest of the uninhabited isles, is positively honeycombed with birds' nests, and at times it is ablaze with colour of the sea-pink and thrift. The Cornwall Coast I don't suppose you can make a man much stronger than the Czar; but, if we're to believe what we're told, the whole place is honeycombed with corruption. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 7, 1893 All the women have their skirts honeycombed with capacious pockets, in which they carry substantial lunches to eat while Isolde is deceiving King Mark. The Merry-Go-Round Oxidized and honeycombed as it was, I recognized the metal immediately, and repressing a strong inclination to hunt for the lead and stake out my claim, I took my find home with me. The Grain Ship Europe, when once you pry beneath its surface and find what its people are thinking and feeling, seems cankered and honeycombed with pessimism. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 It was the usual Spanish situation, to be sure: a designing pretender, a child monarch, a court honeycombed with intrigue, and a people ready for anything spectacular. Washington Irving The gradual disintegration revealed an interior meshed like a wasp's nest, chambered and honeycombed with living tubes and walls. Edge of the Jungle This part of the mountains was honeycombed with caves, so he decided their best bet would probably be to find a nice one and hole up until the Marines finally landed. Hostage A Terran Empire story Now we had no means of defence on board, except one small gun, which was honeycombed and nearly useless. The Privateer's-Man One hundred Years Ago When the writer set himself to inquire into the source of this social cancer, he refused to believe that English society was honeycombed and rotten. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti There are others—as I say, the old town is honeycombed. In the Mayor's Parlour An old building, honeycombed with vaults and secret passages, called the Old Brewery, was the center of a locality that boldly flouted the police. The Kirk on Rutgers Farm Part of the ground over which the climbers have to pass is honeycombed with these holes, and they see the petrels passing in and out; Seagriff, meanwhile, imparting a curious item of information about them. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Along its base the cliff is honeycombed with caves, one of ample dimensions, sufficient to shelter the whole crew. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea The road plunged through a forest, occasionally they passed a soldier plodding through the snow, then emerged along the base of a ridge honeycombed with dug-outs and bombproofs on its sheltered side. The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 Sully found the new Court honeycombed with intrigues. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography To save my life I could not conjugate a Latin verb; but I knew every creek and cove on our rockbound coast; and had gone into every cave that honeycombed the cliffs. Roger Trewinion When ripe it becomes honeycombed over the surface, and has a slightly sweetish taste, with an odour somewhat like that of a morel mushroom, to which it is allied. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure London at the present moment, if it be honeycombed with vice and misery, is also honeycombed with the labour of an ever-expanding charity. Robert Elsmere Tight joints are considered essential by many not only to avoid joint marks but for the more important reason that otherwise, with wet mixtures, a honeycombed concrete is produced by leakage. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs It leaves a bluish scar which soon turns white and the part is roughened and honeycombed. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 2 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies I noticed, too, in spite of my fears, that the main cave led to smaller ones, and that on each side of the entrance the ground was honeycombed. Roger Trewinion The island is of sandstone, all honeycombed with cavities of different sizes, sometimes making beautiful arches. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California As he penetrated deeper into the nature he found it honeycombed, as it were, here and there, with beautiful unexpected softnesses and diffidences. Robert Elsmere He was badly bloated, and his face was red and almost honeycombed with toddy-blossoms. Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi At dusk one evening he found himself in a wild ravine, its cliff-walls honeycombed with caves, in one of which he chose to pass the night. The Valley of the Kings It was when Boss Tweed ruled supreme in New York and the whole administration was honeycombed with corruption. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Sometimes, also, when parched with thirst, the hunter kills a buffalo to obtain the water contained within certain honeycombed cells in its stomach. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America These Ephesian Christians lived in a state of society honeycombed with hideous immorality, the centre of which was the temple, which was their city's glory and shame. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John The Department was honeycombed with just such points of insecurity, leaks which it was my duty to stop. Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After Spain, Portugal, and the little states both of south Germany and of Italy were all alike weary of the contest, the more so as they were honeycombed with liberal ideas. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) Naturally the game worked, and Persia soon became honeycombed with militant unrest. The New World of Islam He found that the system of fraud and chicanery had spread from the heads of the big companies until the whole business world was honeycombed with its corruption. The Root of Evil If our lives are inwardly and secretly honeycombed with evil, only a breath will be needed to throw down the structure. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John That was honeycombed with caves and so is this. Dave Porter in the Gold Fields or, The Search for the Landslide Mine It seemed to him now as though the whole of Egypt might be honeycombed in this subterranean manner. There was a King in Egypt In many places the sides of these tunnel passages were almost honeycombed with open graves. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta The dark, soggy snow melted rapidly, and the swollen surface stream gnawed and tore at the honeycombed ice of the river. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest The number of these troglodytic dwelling places on the Verde is very large; indeed the mesas may be said to be fairly honeycombed with subterranean habitations. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 It's honeycombed with concealed doors, that in themselves don't mean a thing but a 'get out' of any old room. The Heart of Unaga This vast estate was mostly frittered away, honeycombed and moth-eaten, by hungry attorneys. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen The Rock of Gibraltar is honeycombed with caves, passageways, and chambers, some of which are natural and others artificial. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania The honeycombed river ice sagged toward the middle of the stream, and the water from the melting snow followed this depression, leaving the higher edges comparatively dry and free from snow. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest All the long, yellow flank of the hill was honeycombed with little, dark doorways and leering windows, whence wild faces looked. The Car of Destiny By the end of April, with a favourable wind, Columbus left the disastrous shores of Veragua; but his ships, honeycombed by the teredo, could with difficulty be kept afloat. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold His court, like every other Oriental court, was honeycombed with intrigues against him. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III But the Worcester diocese covered a very wide area, and was honeycombed with Shakespeare families of all degrees of gentility. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles The snow of the forest slumped lower and lower, and innumerable icy rills found their way to the river over the surface of whose darkened, honeycombed ice flowed a shallow, slushy stream. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest It is not, however, a microscopic object; under magnifying power it becomes a rough, honeycombed poker, with a ragged hole in the place of the eye. A Ribband of Blue And Other Bible Studies The reason for this is that the switchboard before which the operator sits is honeycombed with tiny holes arranged in sections of one hundred each. The Book of Business Etiquette Every river valley and Indian trail became a fissure in Indian society, and so that society became honeycombed. The Frontier in American History In other localities, and more especially in the lowermost beds, the whole mass is honeycombed, as if drilled by worms or boring shells, the hard parts enclosing softer sands or clays. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 The portion nearest the water's edge was honeycombed by the wavelets that dashed upon it without ceasing, rushing in and out of the small, luminous caverns in swift, sparkling rivulets. Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska From the elevator, he moved on to one of the long, honeycombed concourses, filled with passing shoppers who stared at the colorful, enticing three-dimensional displays. The Dark Door The hills and cliffs are honeycombed with long rows of black openings, the doorways of the tombs where the dead of Thebes for centuries back are sleeping. Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt The country, before it was cut to pieces and even now, is honeycombed with Gestapo agents sent from Germany with false passports or smuggled across the border. Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare On the surface the ice appeared solid enough, but in reality it was so honeycombed by the thaw that it threatened to break up at any moment and go out with a rush. Followers of the Trail The hills are mere bubbles, and the earth is honeycombed with caverns. Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray He charged that the department was disorganized, honeycombed with graft, tolerating and protecting vice conditions, inefficient and negligent. Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles Round about Thebes, the rocks on the western side of the Nile are honeycombed with these strange houses of the departed. Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt "Why, the old mountain is fairly honeycombed with them." The Rover Boys on the Farm or Last Days at Putnam Hall The Christians scattered the relics of the first occupants, knocked down their busts, built arcosolia in the three recesses of the Greek cross, and honeycombed with loculi the side walls of the corridor. Pagan and Christian Rome He was the acknowledged leading advocate of a high protective tariff to which the Republican party was then pledged, though the party was then honeycombed with free-traders, some of whom edited leading newspapers. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 In places it was fairly honeycombed now, in others corroded and splintered into silver spears. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance Our line was thus drawn in a curve right round the south of Messines Hill, which twinkled with points of fire at every morning 'stand-to' from the tiers of trenches which honeycombed its face. The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) There was danger of falling into deep holes, of striking sharp rocks, or blundering into other side passages with which the cavern was doubtless honeycombed. Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters "Mary Louise, the United States is honeycombed with German spies," she gravely announced. Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls As everything connected with sex, so our ideas about illicit sex relations that are not connected with love, are honeycombed with hypocrisy and false to the core. Woman Her Sex and Love Life They spread and spread, until they honeycombed his entire belief. The Brentons There is a honeycombed look about the snow-drifts, which gives them an aged appearance; and, above all, there is an occasional dropping of water—yes, actual water—from the points of huge icicles! The Big Otter At a table in one corner of the room—a table honeycombed with drawers and pigeon-holes, and covered with papers, letters, documents of all kinds—Hamilton sat writing rapidly. The Dictator All knew that the ground beneath Jerusalem was honeycombed by caves and passages; but that their leader could not intend to hide there was evident, for they had but one meal with them. For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem “The fact is, that the commandant is aware that you are acquainted with the weak points of the fort, that the gun-carriages are rotten, and many of the guns are themselves honeycombed or dismounted.” James Braithwaite, the Supercargo The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat For instance, the one habit of negligence, slovenliness, makes it easier to form others equally bad, until the entire character is honeycombed by the invasion of a family of bad habits. Pushing to the Front The ancient world was honeycombed with rents and schisms, scarcely masked by political union. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Zöe regularly honeycombed the little tree-stem with her incessant hammering, and in the numerous holes thus made she kept her supply of food. Wild Nature Won By Kindness As you know, the ground beneath the city is honeycombed by passages whence stone was, in the old time, obtained for buildings. For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem The ground here, too, was quite honeycombed with the burrows of the little petrels, and into these their footsteps broke every moment. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes And therewith I proceeded to grope and feel about in the various fissures and cavities with which the rocky walls of the small cavern were honeycombed, but without success. A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron Oh, Charley, Harry, Nimblewits, These eyes that night ne'er slept a wink; My path seemed honeycombed with pits, Naught could I do but think and think. In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV After a world-wide campaign, however, they were finally exterminated, save in the neighborhood of one great volcanic crater, which they so honeycombed that it is almost impregnable. Spacehounds of IPC Later she learned that the ridge was honeycombed with them. Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier Here the walls were no smooth barrier, but honeycombed with niches in a regular pattern. Storm Over Warlock And now that house was honeycombed with sleeping porches and linen closets and enamel fittings and bathrooms white and glittering as an operating auditorium. Gigolo It is stalked like a mushroom, but the surface of the conical cap is honeycombed with shallow depressions, lined with the spore sacs. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses He still could not believe that Rudolph was a kind of Government sleuth or that Teuton existence was honeycombed from cellar to roof with official suspicion and the tyranny of the detective. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life When sown on winter grain in the spring, the ground not being so honeycombed, covering with the harrow is usually advantageous. Clovers and How to Grow Them This, too, may be true; for the mountains inland of Oonalaska Harbor are honeycombed with caves, and there are well-known hot springs. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward England was honeycombed with mines and countermines both in the political and the religious world, and it needed all this man's brilliant and trained faculties to keep abreast with them. By What Authority? But of all the parts of the United States, New Mexico is most honeycombed with Spanish locatives. A Hero and Some Other Folks And the hateful creatures had so honeycombed the whole mountain over our heads, that Mamma and I put up umbrellas to save ourselves from being drenched. My Friend the Chauffeur On the same soils, early sowing would probably be preferable, even when much reduced in humus, providing they were in a honeycombed condition at the time of sowing. Clovers and How to Grow Them But where the shore is honeycombed with caves and narrow inlets of kelp fields, is a safer kind of hunting. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward Glistening with a red metallic sheen, they looked somewhat like tulips with honeycombed centers. Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung I believe we have the answer of history in such evidences as I have seen of her patient ancient spy system that honeycombed Belgium. Golden Lads Before September was over the shore was honeycombed with his excavations, driven down to the rock bed. The Emigrant Trail Seed sown on honeycombed ground falls into openings made in the soil, and is covered by the action of the frost and the sun on the same. Clovers and How to Grow Them Fortunately, none of the occupants of her cab were struck, although the windows were splintered and the woodwork honeycombed. The Border Boys Across the Frontier The foreshore was honeycombed with shallow pits, shored, and timbered with rough hewn timber. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon It is honeycombed with dry sand-stone caves for the most part communicating with one another. The Terrible Twins The surface of the ice, being honeycombed by the recent rains, presented innumerable sharp points, which tore our shoes and lacerated the feet at every step. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 2 When clover seed is sown on ground honeycombed with frost, no covering is necessary. Clovers and How to Grow Them The boy struck it with the ax and it showed up alive with beetles and grubs and honeycombed with galleries. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters Of these, thirty are to replace guns that are honeycombed, or split. The Tiger of Mysore A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib It was only too evident to the secret service of the Confederate Government that an organization of Federal spies honeycombed the city. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis For Warwick, like all rich cities, was honeycombed with social scandals, and scarcely one of Emmet's opponents would have been justified, if all were published, in casting the first stone at him. The Mayor of Warwick When the seed is sown on the snow, or while the ground is yet in a honeycombed condition from early frost, it must of necessity be sown early. Clovers and How to Grow Them This was known to be honeycombed with deep dug-outs and galleries and was therefore a frequent target for our heavy howitzers. The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 In some places the banks of the river were honeycombed by the holes of bank swallows. The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping These were covered with light brush, and the turf spread evenly over them, so that the honeycombed soil looked to the eye like an unbroken field. Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality A few yards further placed us in an exceedingly rich bottom, honeycombed by native workers. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative The whole city, he decided, must be honeycombed with these drains. Star Born As soon as they have gone off to shift for themselves, the mother toad finds herself with a ragged and honeycombed skin, which must be very uncomfortable. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. "The entire sector from which this attack was launched is honeycombed with utility passages and subsurface supply and maintenance shops," he said. The Universe — or Nothing At places they cut a passage through the honeycombed ice with their hatchets, and again they were compelled to portage over the ice. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark Fort George, constructed of earthen ramparts, with honeycombed cedar palisades which a lighted candle could set fire to, with no tower or block-house, and mounting only nine-pound guns, he knew was incapable of resistance. The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 They have refrained from interference in the thousand jealousies and caste regulations with which the East Indies were, and are, honeycombed, becoming active only when oppression became barefaced. South America And no wonder, for, as it turned out, the island was simply honeycombed by his spies and agents. Romance The passage, in an uninterrupted course, dips under the gorge and enters the south-west cliff, which is completely honeycombed. In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa The summit alone, honeycombed with caverns and covered with black stones, betrayed to the learned a volcano "long extinct." The Wonders of Pompeii He runs little risk even from machine-guns or rifles, for the ground is so honeycombed with shell-holes that he is nearly all the time in good cover. "Over There" with the Australians It is composed of gray limestone, honeycombed with caves and subterranean passages, some of which contain most beautiful stalactites in the form of massive pillars. Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 I perceived now that the whole face of the wall was honeycombed with tunnels of natural formation running into the recesses of the limestone. Jacqueline of Golden River On a first hearing this sounds fairly plausible, yet it is honeycombed with error. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar The whole coast is honeycombed with caves and bays, with chapelles and arches and flying buttresses, among which are wonders such as you will find nowhere else in the world. Carette of Sark In brief, the whole Russian bureaucracy was honeycombed by German influence. Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy The Navy was honeycombed with distrust, falling little short of panic. The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence With the first rosy streak, I was out among my Indian neighbors, whose lodges honeycombed the beautiful beach, that curved away in long, fair outline on either side the house. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe They are already serving the city in so far as it is honeycombed with mutual benefit societies, with "pleasure clubs," with organizations connected with churches and factories which are filling a genuine social need. The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets It would be easy, but superfluous, to quote other examples of Luis de Leon's complaints on this point; his evidence is honeycombed with them. Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment The Homestead was honeycombed with private rooms, booths and telephones. The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story Well, the place seems to be honeycombed with ways in and ways out. The Wharf by the Docks A Novel But gradually the observer will realise that the town is honeycombed with the temporary locations of the British Army, which everywhere speckle the map hanging in the office of the Garrison Quartermaster. The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend Therefore the whole power of Rome, honeycombed as it was by moral corruption and sexual vice, could not stand before these pure barbarians. The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis For the ramparts of Protestantism are honeycombed with infidelity—and what is most saddening, they are giving way to blows from within. The Seeker Large vertical surfaces of rock were carefully sought after for tombs, and the almost inaccessible cliffs of Pantalica and Cassibile are literally honeycombed with them. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders At Chaco they had a little earthen fort, with a small ditch palisadoed round it, and a few old honeycombed guns without carriages, and which do not defend the harbour in the least. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time The school was honeycombed with holy spies who imputed it merit to report the laxity of others. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Kuan Yu, in breathless trepidation, hastened to inspect it, but to his mortification and grief discovered it to be honeycombed in many places. Myths and Legends of China It was honeycombed with compartments, and so carefully were they constructed that only the initiated could have discovered their locality. Looking Seaward Again The steep river banks were honeycombed with little holes and tunnels, and deep, narrow pits, like graves; narrow at the top, and hollowed out below to allow less entrance for shells. With Rimington Is it not better to prevent disease than to try the cure after it has become established, or has honeycombed the constitution? Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 This sudden collapse had come because the foundations of his faith had been honeycombed. The Redemption of David Corson The Brewster place was honeycombed with sleeping porches and sun parlours and linen closets, and laundry chutes and vegetable bins and electric surprises, as your well-to-do Middle-Western house is likely to be. Half Portions Mrs. Symonds' was one of the myriad little schemes with which Dublin is honeycombed, and although she received Mrs. Scully's familiarities somewhat coldly, she kept her eyes fixed upon Violet. Muslin Chatham Island, the home of some, seems completely honeycombed with black truncated volcano cones that spring up everywhere, while masses of lava cover the ground, having been blown into weird and fantastic shapes when soft. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 There were barbed-wire entanglements everywhere, and every field was honeycombed with trenches. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front Rebates could not be openly defended; but the business of the country was honeycombed with them, and the majority of the shippers in whose interest the law was passed did not want the prohibition enforced. The Promise of American Life The room was in the lower part of this mountain, which was more honeycombed with corridors and passages than an Egyptian pyramid. Atlantida The snow softened and got honeycombed by the drops from the trees. The Lure of the North The lamp is going to burn and show the particular cave on that honeycombed coast where Bendigo's brother is supposed to be concealed. The Red Redmaynes It worked there all day, and for many subsequent days, and at last it seemed as if my every faculty were honeycombed with its ramifications. At a Winter's Fire The City of Washington swarmed with rebels and rebel sympathizers, and all the departments of Government were honeycombed with treason and shadowed with treachery and espionage. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him Suddenly he stopped boring, and took a chisel from somewhere about his clothes, and he soon chiseled that honeycombed spot into a single hole, about five inches by ten, and six or seven inches deep. Romance of California Life In my first some imps were boring gimlet-holes in the side of my skull, until they had honeycombed it and removed so much brain that I felt too light-headed to preserve my equilibrium. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 It was the hour for morning prayer, and the Sea Wraith lacked not her chaplain, a man honeycombed with disease and secret sin. Sir Mortimer In places these were honeycombed with caves, running back, apparently, some distance into the bank. The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone I met a number of these personages, fat, with remarkably red faces and large honeycombed noses. Walking-Stick Papers Huge beams and cross-ties intersected each other at right angles, forming the frame for this honeycombed interior, pigeon-holed like a merchant's desk. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Governments are honeycombed with vulnerable spots; and to secure the ready writer on your side is the part of wisdom. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Rome, in Paul's time, was not more completely honeycombed with worldliness than England is to-day; and the English churches are not far behind the English ‘world’ in their paralysing love of luxury and self-indulgence. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) All Palestine is honeycombed with rock–cut tombs, which form a fascinating and inexhaustible field of study. How to Observe in Archaeology The surface of the ice, being honeycombed by the recent rains, presented innumerable sharp points which tore our shoes and lacerated the feet at every step. The Journey to the Polar Sea The sea, in short, has honeycombed it, and renews her vows to be its ruin with every gale. Some Private Views The favoritism and corruption that honeycombed the civil service of Spain in the colonies in the days of her decline often placed utterly unfit persons in these positions of responsibility. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century Corinth was a city honeycombed with the grossest immoralities; and hence, perhaps, to some extent the great emphasis and earnestness and even severity of the Apostle in dealing with some forms of evil. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Nearby were great beds of brake-ferns, four and five feet high, groves of immense alders, sugar pines, some of which were fully eight feet through and the trunks of which were honeycombed with woodpecker holes. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter The hill proved to be a mass of calcareous rock, whose surface was cut and honeycombed as if it had been exposed to the washing of a surf. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 We had been clambering about the hill, seeing the caves with which it is honeycombed, but at present they were uninhabited. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern The insuperable conservatism of the home government gave little opportunity for the development of a class of energetic and progressive colonial officials, and financial corruption honeycombed the whole colonial civil service. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century The Church at Corinth was honeycombed by the characteristic Greek vice of party spirit. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Bycars Lane led in a north-easterly direction over the broad hill whose ridge separates the lane from the moorlands honeycombed with coal and iron mines. The Price of Love The beds of the streams were covered with smooth, water-worn pebbles, white as marble, and then again we encountered limestone in lava formation, honeycombed with millions of sharp, up-turned cells. Reed Anthony, Cowman But a frigate, all oak, Shows honeycombed by shot, and her deck crimson-dyed. John Marr and Other Poems Every city honeycombed by our pipes—yes, and every village and hamlet too, and even every farm house that can afford it! The Air Trust I was then probably not more than half way to the bottom of this hill of ruins, which is honeycombed with corridors, stairways, and rooms of various sizes. A Trip Abroad This seemed an immense simplification of the problem, until you discovered that the great wall of cliffs was honeycombed with fissures. Spanish Doubloons They consisted merely of the half of a great, thick-walled tower, which appeared to be fairly honeycombed by time. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes These singular structures, which are sometimes twelve feet in height, are of great strength and toughness--on breaking off a piece, they appear to be honeycombed inside, the numerous galleries being then displayed. 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 It consists of inferior oolite, which furnishes excellent building stone, and the hill in consequence is honeycombed with quarries. Somerset This hill is a mass of calcareous rock, similar to the high parts of Bountiful Island, with the same honeycombed surface, as if it had been exposed to the action of the sea. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea Many parts of the island were perfectly honeycombed with their burrows, which greatly impede the progress of the pedestrian, and are in some cases dangerous from snakes lying in them. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. The Brewster house was honeycombed with sleeping porches and sun parlours and linen closets, and laundry chutes and vegetable bins and electric surprises as well-to-do Middle Western home is likely to be. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 I hardly, dared to take a step, for I knew these underground cells were honeycombed with death-traps. Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy As for the "Careless Husband," the more one reads from it the more cause is there to regret the utter hopelessness of reviving a play so honeycombed by inuendo. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield They are of a formation totally different, being of a very coarse gritty yellow sandstone, in many places quite honeycombed, with some low sandhills superimposed. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea If one could divide the human brain as one cuts in two an apple, and lay bare its thoughts, it would be found that mine is honeycombed with murderous thoughts. Without Dogma The poor were sunk in ignorance and barbarism, and the aristocracy was honeycombed by profligacy. Collections and Recollections There are paths here and there leading up to points of vantage, but the way is difficult and dangerous owing to the manner in which the passes are honeycombed with caverns and fissures. What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association The irregular honeycombed appearance of the sponge is due to a most complicated canal system, consisting of a series of chambers through which the water is drawn by the animal in always the same direction. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 The crests of the hills or hillocks were of a reddish sort of sandstone, and so honeycombed or pointed at the top that it was difficult to walk over them. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea The whole huge mass was brittle and honeycombed and rotten. The Refugees The switchboards themselves are made of hard, black rubber, and are honeycombed with innumerable holes, each of which is connected with a subscriber. Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers With regard to Messrs. Smallwood's cellars, their subterranean premises are honeycombed with catacombs containing the remains of some grand old spirits and big bins of choice vintage and various other wines. A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" In the daytime these animals sleep comfortably, digesting their ill-gotten meal in the holes of the rocks, which are so honeycombed that dogs cannot easily get at the hermits. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine The first Napoleon had the ground honeycombed under him by his enemies, who could not be suppressed, nor their labors be made to cease, even by his stern system of repression. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Morocco, when he was called there, was already honeycombed by German trading interests and secret political intrigue, and the fruit seemed ready to fall when the declaration of war shook the bough. In Morocco In an ice-plant operated on the can system a great many blocks are freezing at once—in fact, the whole floor of a great room is honeycombed with trap-doors, a door for each can. Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers I don't know that I ever told you that all the hill is honeycombed with those old subterranean passages, like the one we saw at Provins. A Hilltop on the Marne Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914 Here lofty honeycombed rocks rose behind the houses that were built not very far above the stream, whose swiftness is supposed to have been the origin of its name. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Shrapnel-casings and rusted shell-noses were sticking everywhere in the clay, and each curve exposing a bit of surface to the enemy was honeycombed with bullet holes. Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them The biscuit was a honeycombed heap of maggots, and the excrement of maggots. The Uncommercial Traveller But I am told that nowadays country society is quite honeycombed with them. An Ideal Husband We know that many of these islands are honeycombed with caverns and vast subterranean spaces, literally underground lands running in some cases far out beneath the ocean floor. The Moon Pool It is that these honeycombed and fantastically-shaped masses of dolomite or magnesian limestone represent the skeletons of vaster rocks whose less resisting parts were washed away by the wearing action of the sea. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Except where the prairie dogs have honeycombed the ground, you can drive almost anywhere, and the passage of a few wagons over the same track makes a road. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains The sides, which rise almost perpendicularly to a height of some two hundred feet, are composed of jagged blocks of stone, honeycombed with deep caves and caverns. Stories from Everybody's Magazine We found water; the mountain was honeycombed with underground streams; but no food. Under the Andes Craziest structures, riddled and honeycombed with stairways and passages, shut out the sky, though here and there rose a building of extraordinary richness and most elaborate ornamentation. Blix And for the last hundred years their number and power and their hiding places had so increased that Samavia was at last honeycombed with them. The Lost Prince Naples is honeycombed with narrow, teeming alleys, grimed with the sediment of centuries, colored like old Stilton, and smelling much worse. Fanny Herself The ice in the pond at length begins to be honeycombed, and I can set my heel in it as I walk. Walden The sudden flashes of colour reminded him of the gleam of the opal-and-iris-throated birds that flutter round the tall honeycombed Campanile, or stalk, with such stately grace, through the dim, dust-stained arcades. The Picture of Dorian Gray "Or if he do, he'll be honeycombed clean out of all the character and standing that he's built up in these eighteen year!" The Mayor of Casterbridge The greater part of this district of Yorkshire is composed of limestone, forming bare hillsides honeycombed with underground waters and pot-holes, which often lead down into the most astonishing caverns. Yorkshire Scarcely a land on earth but is, or was, honeycombed with the secret agents of the German Government. Bob Cook and the German Spy Pratt lived in a little hamlet of old houses on the very outskirts of Barford—on the edge of a stretch of Country honeycombed by stone-quarries, some in use, some already worked out. The Talleyrand Maxim The very ground underneath us was honeycombed with intrigues and conspiracies. In the Valley Hares were seen on the shores of the bay, and mice in such abundance that their burrows completely honeycombed the ground. The Field of Ice Part II of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras Squarely he faced the issue; for that instant he saw François Villon as the last seven years had made him, saw the wine-sodden soul of François Villon, rotten and weak and honeycombed with vice. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages The night before we had made a picturesque camp on the lee side of a rock cliff which was honeycombed with caves. A Woman Tenderfoot The beautiful Romanesque tower of the church stands on top of a rock that is honeycombed with their cells. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe As the "concert" was honeycombed by jealousies, it was impossible to do more than prevent the development of this horror into a general European war. Outline of Universal History You look at the cutting itself, and see that to a certain depth it is honeycombed with tombs, some cut through, some sticking out. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc As he penetrated deeper into the nature, he found it honeycombed as it were, here and there, with beautiful, unexpected softnesses and diffidences. Robert Elsmere Their enemies were convinced that they were somewhere in the town, or, rather, underneath the town, for the rock on which it rests is honeycombed with quarries. Two Summers in Guyenne When San Francisco was burnt, the ground under the Chinese town was found to be honeycombed with runs and lurking-holes to an astounding extent. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe The prophet had no doubt as to what must be the end of a state of things in which the very courts of law were honeycombed with corruption, and demoralised by the power of drink. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah The floor of the church is honeycombed with graves scooped out of the rock. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc The whole district is seamed with ravines, and these are honeycombed with great caverns, where dangerous outcasts still lurk and defy capture. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Some fragments are so honeycombed that they are as light in the hand as touchwood; others have undergone little, if any, chemical change. Two Summers in Guyenne The rocks of Djonfont-kaleharri are also honeycombed, with still inhabited caves; some are completely cavernous, but others have the openings walled up so as to form a screen. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe I am quite sure that if the inmost sentiments of the bulk of professing Christians about a future life were dragged into light, these would be a revelation of a faith all honeycombed with insincerity. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Coffins and cradles seem the main furniture, and he hears the tramp, tramp, tramp of the generations passing over a soil honeycombed with tombs, and therefore ringing hollow to their tread. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes There are fifty miles of these underground galleries honeycombed beneath the city, sufficiently large to shelter the entire population. The War Romance of the Salvation Army She had begun to perceive that the fair surface of life was honeycombed by a vast system of moral sewage. Sanctuary In England the rabbit burrows in the ground to such an extent that in places the earth is honeycombed by them, and the walker steps through the surface into their galleries. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton But there may be a place of this name still nearer; it is a common appellation in these honeycombed limestone districts. Old Calabria The ransacking of his hut revealed a magazine of riches, the earthen floor beneath the bunk being honeycombed with pits containing easily portable but valuable property. Tropic Days Starvation stared them in the face, when it was discovered that Mount Pitt was honeycombed with mutton-bird burrows. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders On my right I could see across the cornfields the two crocketed, rustic spires of Saint-Andr�-des-Champs, themselves as tapering, scaly, plated, honeycombed, yellowed, and roughened as two ears of wheat. Swann's Way The waters have here worked like enormous moles, and have honeycombed the foundations of the earth. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton Even now the institution is honeycombed with Freemasonry—the surest path to advancement in any career, in modern Italy. Old Calabria Anxiety to begin our studies of the spot made the ride across the basin, soled with rises comfortably metalled, and with falls of sand unpleasantly loose and honeycombed, appear very long. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Her boiler, I have said, was honeycombed; it was easy to thrust one's fist through it. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 The wood of the handle was honeycombed with the gnawings of worms, and dusty with dry-rot. David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales The country abounds with legends and romances, and is literally honeycombed with historic memories. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young Together with the others, it succeeded to a period of eremitism of solitary anchorites whose dwellings honeycombed the warm slopes that confront the Ionian…. Old Calabria The valley is honeycombed into man-traps by rats and lizards, causing many a tumble, and notably developing the mulish instinct. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 You have been, if you will allow me to say so, a little indiscreet to make yourself so much at home in a house every wall of which is honeycombed with secret passages. The Green Flag We discovered later that the beast had plunged into a piece of ground honeycombed with squirrel- holes. Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch The inside was honeycombed with rust—nay more, the rust alone that comes through time would hardly have eaten so deep into the iron walls; the rust of the cruel stains was deep indeed! Dracula's Guest The ground over which the infantry advanced was honeycombed with British shell holes and the barbed wire defenses had been leveled, so that they gave little trouble. America's War for Humanity The interior space was honeycombed with holes made by the shells. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 "How curiously honeycombed the rocks are," exclaimed Frank, as they got out of the craft. The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic The cliffs opposite the ancient Egyptian capitals are honeycombed with sepulchral cells. General History for Colleges and High Schools |
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