| 单词 | living rock |
| 例句 | The only signs of green were the pale patches of lichen strangling the living rocks on which they grew. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The pines threw their roots around the shore’s boulders, grappling with the living rocks and wrestling them into position. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z It was a living rock, for it had not been placed there by the people’s hands. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z He was as still as a living rock on the earth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Only after he had reached it did Taran see long flights of steps carved into the living rock. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The Americans and their guards and Campbell took shelter in an echoing meat locker which was hollowed in living rock under the slaughterhouse. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Until his death, Peart was considered by many to be the greatest living rock drummer; watching him play, it’s hard not to start thinking he possessed several phantom limbs. The Misfit Awesomeness of Neil Peart and Rush 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z He, Professor Bartlett and Dan "hewn from the living rock" Snow get there next week. Last night's TV 2010-08-05T07:00:00Z The interruption apparently didn’t get to West, who ended his 90-minute performance declaring with characteristic understatement that he is “the greatest living rock star on the planet.” Comic Dedicates Kanye Stage Invasion to Taylor Swift 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Kanye West has called himself a deity, the next Steve Jobs and the greatest living rock star, so it was only a matter of time before he teamed up with one of popular music’s GOATs. 10 of Kanye West's Most Inspired Collaborations 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Take a tour of the ancient city of Petra — hewn from the living rock, hence the name — on a new "Nova." TV This Week Feb. 15-22: 'QI' on BBC America 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z They were filled with carved figures — some free standing, some cut in high relief from living rock — that have long been considered among the most sublime images in Chinese art. Art Review: ‘Echoes of the Past,’ Chinese Buddhist Cave Art, in New York 2012-09-13T21:22:46Z He pulls up his shirt to reveal an eight-pack – abs hewn from the living rock. Jersey Shore | Cable girl 2010-03-23T06:45:00Z “You are not the greatest living rock star of all time,” Taylor says. Slipknot Frontman: Kanye West Is 'Not the Greatest Living Rock Star' 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z “There are whole temples carved out of living rocks,” Zimmerman said. They Have Finished Moving 225 Tons of Reimagined Art 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z What remains of their now-vanished civilization — especially the tombs carved out of living rock — reflects a “strange spirit of place.” A case for D.H. Lawrence as a father of modern travel writing 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z I was plunged into a world of living rocks, simmering waters and growing crystals. Come for the mushrooms, stay for the ham: This unsung corner of Spain is home to fabulous food 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z But their legacy remains, hewn into the living rock of Stonehenge on a new “Secrets of the Dead.” What to watch on TV: ‘Doctor Who,’ ‘Narcos: Mexico,’ the World Series and more 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z Six men were sentenced to a number of penalties after recent federal convictions involving a cactus trafficking ring that poached thousands of living rocks in southwest Texas for smuggling to Europe and Asia. Global cactus traffickers are cleaning out the deserts 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z These smugglers were trafficking something all together less high profile – so-called “living rock cactus” that grows uniquely on the arid plains of Big Bend national park in Texas. Texas’s cactus cops battle to save rare desert beauty from smuggling gangs 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z The living rock cactus is only found in the Big Bend region, federal wildlife officials said. Texas man pleaded guilty in cacti smuggling case 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Most people know two things about Peart: For one, until his death on Tuesday, he was considered by many to be the greatest living rock drummer. Perspective | Rush was an easy band to mock. Neil Peart didn’t care, and that’s why we loved him. 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Joseph said it often takes up to two decades for a cactus to reach the commercially viable “specimen” size – he currently sells living rock cactus grown in his nursery for 15 years. To catch a cactus thief: national parks fight a thorny problem 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z “Sometimes it came as a hitchhiker with the living rocks.” Homegrown coral reefs are beautiful — and potentially dangerous 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z The Who was one of six acts that last year performed the Desert Trip festival in California that was meant to bring together the most influential living rock bands. The Who announces residency in Las Vegas 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Stromatolites are effectively living rocks formed of mineral grains glued together by sticky, colonial bacteria. Wavy Greenland rock features 'are oldest fossils' - BBC News 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z When West called himself "the greatest living rock star on the planet" at Glastonbury last summer, it was hard to think of a musician working who could challenge the claim. The 1975's new album is ambitious, absurd, and kind of awesome 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Her greenhouse was filled with living rocks being rehabilitated after their stressful journey. To catch a cactus thief: national parks fight a thorny problem 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z In recent years he has described himself, not always entirely seriously, as “the greatest living rock star on the planet”, the new Steve Jobs, a potential US president and, simply, “the nucleus”. Kanye West: a 'brilliant madman' who speaks and acts in superlatives 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z The crowd roared to its feet at the song’s conclusion, appreciative of the sweating fervor of Mr. Buckingham’s musicianship, which has earned him a reputation as one of the best living rock guitarists. Christie McVie returns to Fleetwood Mac for ‘On With the Show’ tour 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z But unlike fast-growing branching corals, massive species like brain, star, boulder and mounding corals naturally grow less than two inches a year — so slowly they are nicknamed “living rocks.” A Lifesaving Transplant for Coral Reefs 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z "They are big enough to ram into them, break off a piece and process this living rock. They eat tonnes of this living coral over the course of a year - they actually depress coral diversity." Bumps, buzzards and critical species 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z For the last hundred yards it pierced the living rock, and at last came forth in the impenetrable darkness of the forest. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z They had not been built up from the floor to the ceiling, but were part of the living rock, joining the roof to the floor. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z The admiral's boat, manned by its natty crew in dazzling white garments, shot to the staircase hewn from the living rock, to scrape acquaintance with the hermits of Glas-aitch-�. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Through them, far in the cool shadows, Muriel caught a glimpse of the white altar and a sound of dripping water that fell from the cavern's ceiling of living rock into the Holy Pool. Running Sands 2012-02-05T03:00:08.983Z Tunnels, or galleries excavated in the living rock, were also called cryptae. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z Frequently they are artistically chiselled in the solid rock; at one stupendous precipice a Cingalese monarch has had four flights, of 250 steps in all, hewn out of the living rock. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z The bones of Zoroaster, as well as the jewels, are said to lie in a vault cut in the living rock; and the Sunstone is the key which opens the entrance to that vault. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z They consist of galleries scooped in the living rock at the distance of some twelve feet from the outside, behind which they run the whole breadth of the hill in this direction. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z Everywhere about us the lower foundations of the papal palace joined the living rock, its towers seeming to climb upward to the sky. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z In one chamber, there is an armchair carved out of the living rock, and you can press yourself into it to deal with back pains. Ancient rituals 2010-04-03T12:34:00Z The lower rock masses were orange-hued, and above them rose red battlements of cliff; where the former broke into sheer sides there were old houses of the cliff-dwellers, carved in the living rock. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open Without another word he set forward on his way, gliding down the face of the living rock like some gigantic lizard. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z "From the tower of the old palace," he writes, "Valletta is seen in all its original beauty, appearing as if cut out of a single piece of living rock." The Story of Malta In the early days of the Roman power it was customary to cremate the dead, the ashes being preserved in urns that were ranged in cells known as Columbaria, generally hewn in the living rock. Architecture His cell, dug out of the living rock, never required the least repair; his yellow robe, lined with sheepskin, served him alike in all seasons of the year. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 In some instances arm-chairs, carved out of the living rock, stand between the doors of the chambers, and the walls above are decorated with the semblance of suspended shields. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" A steam shovel rattled and puffed, cement mixers crashed, and compressed air drills hammered perseveringly at the living rock. Bert Wilson at Panama It has two large aguadas, one at the entrance of the said place, which in the dry season is exhausted; with another large and round basin which God made in a living rock. History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII. It was in the low, gloomy, dimly lighted subterranean galleries known as catacombs, hewn in the living rock near Rome, that Christian architecture may be said to have had its first crude beginnings. Architecture The infernal palace consisted of one hundred subterranean temples and labyrinths, all sculptured, like the supernal palace, out of the living rock, and situated directly underneath it. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar They were steps, not made of masonry, but apparently carved out of the living rock. Tiger Cat It is a majestic temple of one stone, hewn from the living rock, and adorned with spires and pinnacles in regular cathedral style. My First Summer in the Sierra The temple and statues are hewn out of the living rock, and, on entering, there is the shrine of Hathor, "the supreme type of divine maternity." Oriental Women It led to a narrow flight of more than two hundred steps, hewn in the living rock. A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 The passage had been cut in the living rock. The Caves of Fear It looks as if some monstrous antediluvian race had cut two or three stories of doors and windows into the living rock, in order to make themselves palaces to dwell in. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries The artificial gravity induced a sense of security as absolute as though the ship were resting on living rock. The Star Lord One door of this hall gives access to a large drawing-room, one of whose walls and whose fireplace have been carved out of the living rock. Memoirs of Life and Literature A. Within recent years there have been discovered, in all parts of India, fourteen Edicts of his, inscribed on living rocks, and eight on pillars erected by his orders. The Buddhist Catechism He was a prisoner in a cell whose walls were the living rock. Two Thousand Miles Below There is not a fragment of its living rock, nor a tuft of its heathery herbage, that has not adorable manifestations of God's working thereupon. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) In some places approaches had been dug away to the beds of streams; and the absolutely impassable barriers of the living rock had been removed from the mountain passes. When the West Was Young That they had found the Secret Way across False Ridge was perfectly plain, for here in the living rock before them were marks, the first marks they had found in the Cañons. Tharon of Lost Valley From the broken face of the sloping cliff they have been hewn, not built and pieced together and brought here from elsewhere, but born full size, springing to life from out the living rock. Round the Wonderful World In one temple I observed the intelligent mother sitting upon the broad peltate leaf of this plant, which had been hewn out of the living rock. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton The nymphs elected to adjudge the prize “Swear by the floods; and on the living rock “Seated, await to hear the rival songs. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II A spring issuing from the living rock is worthy of confidence. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts It rose smoothly underfoot in the pitch darkness, for the cut was roofed in the living rock five hundred feet above, and climbed for a mile. Tharon of Lost Valley Funerary architecture is not content, like that of civil or religious buildings, to borrow its materials from the rock; it cuts and chisels the living rock itself. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 In Upper Egypt numerous excavations from the living rock in the mountains of the Thebaid received their mortal remains. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Caverns I have, scoop'd in the living rock “Beneath the mountain's side, where never sun “In mid-day heat, nor winter's cold can come. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II It was a sort of portico squarely cut in the living rock. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt One ran through the low lands by the sea, the other over the great plateau, through galleries cut for leagues from the living rock, over pathless sierras buried in snow. The Red True Story Book Yosemite's walls are rounded, peaked, and polished, Swiftcurrent's toothed, torn, and crumbling; the setting sun shines through holes worn by frost and water in the living rock. The Book of the National Parks Their tombs, also excavated from the living rock, consisted of one or of several chambers ornamented with paintings and sculptures; the last contained the sarcophagus and the mummy. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life "The rudest habitation, ye might think That it had sprung from earth self-raised, or grown Out of the living rock." Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes A steep staircase cut in the living rock was then seen descending. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt The riotous luxuriance of tropical Nature triumphed over the glories of Art, hewn with incalculable toil and skill in the living rock. Through the Malay Archipelago It was discreetly hidden by mango-trees and palmetto, and in the rear of the garden, steps cut in the living rock led down into the water. The White Mice The room was little more than a single large cell carved from the living rock, and lighted by a single radium bulb in the ceiling. The Cavern of the Shining Ones The corridors were hewn through the living rock. Humorous Ghost Stories The canal became a prodigious tunnel, of the same width and depth of water, and vaulted three hundred and thirty five feet high in the living rock. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages The back side consisted of the living rock. Rollo in Geneva More than probably, these chambers had been cut in the living rock, by the ancients. The Planet Strappers The first was conducted over mountain-ridges, frequently buried in snow; galleries were cut through the living rock; rivers crossed by suspension-bridges; precipices scaled by stairways; and deep ravines were filled up with solid masonry. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The solid masonry held the heat like the living rock itself, and no current of the night wind blowing overhead eddied downward in refreshment. The Justice of the King A rusty ring, clamped into the living rock, survived to tell of days before steam-tugs were invented, when vessels had painfully to warp their way up and down the river. Shining Ferry Here were the dungeons, half of masonry, half of living rock, whose walls glistened with slime where the torchlight fell upon them. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain This must have been a busy neighbourhood, whatever sort of work it may have been that went on around these untooled fragments of the living rock, which have so distracted our antiquaries in later centuries. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author When Beni-Hassan was reached we made an early start and rode out on donkeys to see the famous tombs hewn out of the living rock. A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel This stood upon a terraced platform, cut from the living rock, and was a perfectly plain structure—with walls slightly receding inward as they rose, and wholly destitute of ornamentation. The Aztec Treasure-House You can mortice a bit of thin stone into the living rock, and then it will stand 'four-square to every wind that blows.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. We were shown a place where there had been an attempt to break into the walls for stones, but which had been abandoned, because it was found easier to quarry them from the living rock. Recollections of Europe They were deep and shallow, and were cut out of the living rock. The Border Boys Across the Frontier It is sixty-six feet high, hewn out of the living rock. A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel They hewed their tombs in the living rock of cliffs and hills, or reared them of massive masonry. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The grove of pillars through which the pageant passed grew from the living rock into shapes of beauty, fulfilling by the inbreathed spirit of man Nature's blind yearning after absolute completion. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series From being coated with shining and resplendent lava, it became living rock. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Inside there are two statues carved out of the living rock. The Delight Makers Gasping for breath, drenched, almost reconciled to the end which I thought was come—I found myself standing at the foot of a steep flight of stairs roughly hewn in the living rock. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor Quite close to Podgorica there lives a hermit, a wonderful man who has hewn out of the living rock a tiny chapel, a store-room, and a passage leading to the chapel. The Land of the Black Mountain The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro It stood far back beneath the over-hanging ledge and seemed to be secured against the living rock. Jacqueline of Golden River God is not the shifting vane on the spire, but the corner-stone of living rock, firmer than everlasting hills. Unity of Good At moments of worship the supernatural world began to appear again, like points of living rock emerging through sand, detached and half stifled by external details, but real and abiding. The King's Achievement In the centre of this room, which stands a few feet below the Chapel, is, to all appearance, a grave, hewn out of the living rock. Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844 By a Visiter Underneath this canopy, in the centre of a huge mass of gneiss and hornblende, forming the living rock, there is the rude outline of a gigantic foot about five feet long, and of proportionate breadth. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood His main characteristic is an energy, which never exhausts itself in vain anger, desire, or sorrow, but abides and rules, like a living rock:—where he wanders, he flows like lava, and congeals like granite. The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford He turned and led us along the quay to a stairway cut in the living rock. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 You approached Rilla now by a footbridge crossing the line, and thereafter by a winding pathway climbing the cliff, with here and there a few steps hewn in the living rock. Hocken and Hunken Here they saw that the palace climbed down the northern slope from the summit, and literally overhung the precipice where the supports were made fast by gigantic girders run in the living rock. Romance Island Lloyd moved over to Boyce and told him in aloud voice, trying to overcome the roar of the river, that the rocks on which they sat on must have been living rock. Scorched Earth Both ends of this house were of the living rock of the sides of the gorge, and at one end seemed to be a sort of cave with a narrow entrance. A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex It appeared to be a natural chamber formed in the living rock. In the Days of Chivalry At this moment the guide pointed to a mass that I had thought a fragment of the living rock, and said it was the roof a building. A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland And Taimá--it left not there the stem of a palm aloft, nor ever a tower, save ours, firm built on the living rock. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 The conclusion of the whole matter is that the earliest city forum grew up on the terrace in front of the place where the mysterious lots had leaped out of the living rock. A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste And then I saw that the cell did indeed stretch from side to side of the narrow cleft down which I had come, so that each end of the building was of living rock. A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex There was no sign of there ever having been treasure, for nobody could possibly have buried it, unless they’d hewn places in the living rock, like ancient Egyptians. Us and the Bottleman This hearth cut in the living rock was very wonderful and beautiful. A Volunteer Poilu I was closed in a tomb in the womb of living rock, to all intents and purposes. Jimgrim and Allah's Peace At Torquay and on the Mendip Hills, as everybody knows, there are caves of wondrous beauty, carved by the water within the living rock. A Cotswold Village "Yea, I would be like unto him who was made to 'suck honey out of the living rock.'" Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII I know of no ruin in America which nature has so resumed; it seems a part of the living rock; you cannot imagine it away. Malbone: an Oldport Romance The road curved to the right; round the bend, cut in the living rock, was a cave; the shepherds stopped and knelt, and there was no sound but the soft rapid breathing of the flock. The Gray Brethren and Other Fragments in Prose and Verse On each side of it stood pillars, cut from the living rock and immense, almost, as those which held the rainbow veil of the Dweller. The Moon Pool That we all reverence "great men" is to me the living rock amid all rushings down whatsoever. Thomas Carlyle The sea may roll Sand, shingle, shore-weed, not the living rock Which guards the land. Queen Mary and Harold The body consists of a nave and side aisles, all excavated out of the living rock. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe Hard by is a cistern, semicircular, dug out of the living rock; this goes by the name of the deïmo—that is to say, the place of tithe. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc It was hewn out of the living rock; there was a cross over the door, and before it was a great spreading oak, with a sweet spring of water at its foot. Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies The ascent from terrace to terrace was about fifty feet; steep and precipitous, formed of the living rock, and resembling a wall wrought with tools into rough diamond points. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) To her he was as a rock, but a living rock, vitalized by a myriad veins of sensitiveness. The Mountebank Probably it was during the English occupation of Guienne which extended into Auvergne, that a castle and a chapel were sculptured out of the living rock. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe Part of this chapel is scooped and sculptured out of the living rock. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc The lighthouses away out in ocean are firmly bonded into living rock. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke There are two stories of chambers—three above, two below; and the former are connected with the latter by a narrow interior stairway cut through the living rock. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series In the cliffs was a cave, with sweet waters and seats carved from the living rock,—the abode of the nymphs. National Epics Nottingham enjoyed possibly the largest brewing and malting business in the country, and those trades were nearly wholly carried on in chambers and cellars and kilns cut out of the living rock. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe The search-lights and the huge gun positions and the maze of trenches, barbed wire and machine-gun emplacements hewn out of the living rock, of course, to the Teuton mind, do not constitute defence. Sketches of the East Africa Campaign Leaving the lake, it glides quietly through the rushes, destined never more to touch the living rock. The Mountains of California Sure enough it seemed to proceed from the sinister countenance carved in the living rock above them. The Boy Aviators in Africa At the western extremity of the temple a huge statue towered seventy or eighty feet into the air, hewn, to all appearance, from a mass of living rock. The People of the Mist The only mode of ascent of this perpendicular mountain consists of a rope, and holes, just big enough to receive the toes of a man, cut out of the living rock. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan I tell thee, my kind physician, that for a season, in an insane attempt to effect my liberty, I cut through a large portion of the living rock. Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Well is their fidelity honored by the noble sculpture near Lucerne, cut out in the living rock of their own Alps, and representing a lion dying to defend the fleur-de-lis. A Book of Golden Deeds In life a clay hut was for them a sufficient lodging; in death they sought a costly, sculptured tomb, hewn from the living rock. Stella Fregelius Peveril was so astounded at the scream as it rung through the living rocks, that he could not help stopping and looking back in alarm, to satisfy himself that she had not sustained some injury. Peveril of the Peak The Lion lies in his lair in the perpendicular face of a low cliff—for he is carved from the living rock of the cliff. A Tramp Abroad — Volume 04 Then we followed her down a steep incline of many steps, till at length we found ourselves in a hot and enormous hall hewn from the living rock and filled with blackness. The Ancient Allan But there be cracks in evil's tracks Where seed shall safe abide, And living rocks shall breast the shocks Of overflowing tide. The Eye of Zeitoon Up endless sloping galleries we went, hewn with inconceivable labour by the primeval fire-worshippers from the living rock of the Mountain. Ayesha, the Return of She They had been seen, evidently, for horsemen—looking like black ants on the desert—seemed to have crawled from the bowels of the living rock and were galloping in their direction. Rung Ho! The living spring issued from the living rock in a corner of the room. A Rock in the Baltic Scores of "trypod" and "Star" drills, whole battalions of deafening machines run by compressed air brought from miles away, are pounding and grinding and jamming holes in the living rock. Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers These tombs have been so made as to leave pillars of the living rock standing, both at the entrance and in the chapel. A History of Greek Art He had his own superstitious views, but among them there did not happen to be one which admitted the possibility of whiskey's running in a stream from the living rock. Oak Openings His face still looked as though hewn from the living rock, but into his eyes had crept an expression which in another man might almost have been called sentimental. Indiscretions of Archie Lermontoff counted two hundred and thirty-seven steps, which brought him to an elevated platform, projecting from a doorway cut in the living rock, but shielded from all sight of the sea. A Rock in the Baltic Not only were the initials of the learned alchemist visible upon the living rock, but there lay the iron point with which the letters had been engraved. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth What a prodigious labour must have been entailed by this perforation of the living rock! Egypt (La Mort de Philae) He lies in the heart of the living rock, in the dull heat of the earth's bowels, which is like no other heat. The Spell of Egypt The shelters used to live in show much more careful work, and are divided into two unequal parts by a wall cut in the living rock. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples The streets and many of the houses were mere excavations wrought out of the living rock. Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada This we followed for about five paces, when it suddenly widened out into a small chamber, about eight feet square, and hewn out of the living rock. She That chain of living rocks that rises before us, coloured each morning with the same rose, as of a tender flower, is literally stuffed with dead bodies. Egypt (La Mort de Philae) Presently we had left the region of the masonry and were slipping down a gallery hewn in the living rock. Cleopatra For this door was banded with iron and set fast in the living rock. The Brethren After ascending the steps that lead towards the skeletons, we turn again sharp round to the left, and come upon another noble flight— broad and lofty, and cut in great measure from the living rock. Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino On we went up the bright and sunny slope, till at last the creeping shadows from above swallowed up its brightness, and presently we began to pass through a cutting hewn in the living rock. She A few yards down the passage, in the narrow way hewn out of the living rock, Gagool had paused, and was waiting for us. King Solomon's Mines Then, suddenly and softly, I know not by what means, the mass heaved itself from its bed of living rock. Cleopatra One stick the size of an ordinary candle, and from that to a maximum amount of four sticks, may be used to "load" a hole eighteen to twenty-four inches long, drilled into living rock. The Trail of the White Mule It had a single barred entrance which was carved from the living rock in representation of the head of a gryf, whose wide-open mouth constituted the doorway. Tarzan the Terrible "How does a living rock differ from other rocks—dead rocks?" Penelope's Postscripts At first, all that the somewhat faint light given by the lamp revealed was a room hewn out of the living rock, and apparently not more than ten feet square. King Solomon's Mines They may tug in line at your hempen twine, They may flourish with axe and saw; But your taproot drinks of the Sacred Springs In the living rock of Law. Poems In a few minutes afterwards he found himself involved in the total darkness of a staircase, which, entering from the low-browed cavern we have mentioned, winded upwards through the entrails of the living rock. A Legend of Montrose At the doorway leading into the interior he paused again, listening, and then quietly pushing aside the heavy skin that covered the aperture he passed within a large chamber hewn from the living rock. Tarzan the Terrible I, whom visions and auguries shake not—-who am firm in my purpose as the living rock—I should have fought the combat myself. The Talisman All the Kukuana army could not break through five feet of living rock. King Solomon's Mines It was built of solid masonry, the lower part excavated from the living rock, and the whole work executed with skill not inferior to that of the European architect. History of the Conquest of Peru; with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas But, when he had made it, and found himself on a broad pathway, cut in the living rock, he gave a great shout—a shout that caused his companions to hasten to his side. Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers, or, the Secret of Phantom Mountain Farther along the curve, in plain view from my eyrie, carved out of the living rock, were four colossal figures. The Jacket (Star-Rover) |
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