Thesaurus / hewn
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The same may be said of the sarcophagi in the principal temple, which is hewn out of a block of fine white marble.
A WOMAN'S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFEROn the opposite bank of the river, a small hill rises, upon which rests the figure of a large and rather plump ox hewn in stone.
A WOMAN'S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFERThe principal temple, Kylas, is the most wonderful of all those which are hewn out of the rock.
A WOMAN'S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFERHe then advanced over the log slowly and cautiously, for its upper surface, hewn level and smooth, was but four inches wide.
GOLD-SEEKING ON THE DALTON TRAILARTHUR R. THOMPSONThe two houses, which they had noticed as they passed in April, were constructed of hewn boards gray with age.
GOLD-SEEKING ON THE DALTON TRAILARTHUR R. THOMPSONHe glanced at the rough-hewn crowd by the rail, and said grimly: Mighty grateful to you fellows.
THE WOMAN GIVESOWEN JOHNSONIts foundation was a solid blind wall, fifteen feet or so in height, and built of hewn stone laid in clay cement.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FORESTIt kept the last rays of the setting sun on its windows, and seemed, with its bare walls, hewn from a corner of the sky.
THE NABOBALPHONSE DAUDETDeprived of sustenance, nearly all the shorter streams dried up, and the channels which they had hewn became arid gullies.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FORESTHis sentences are like shafts hewn from the granite of his own hills,--simple, massive, strong.
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