unhewn

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The first 412 Cornellians were scrambling around the unhewn Ithaca campus in the autumn of 1868.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unjebanenjebet combed the showrooms of the local coffin makers, but found no coffin or unhewn block big enough for him.

From Time Magazine Archive

The great tumulus at Carne was opened in 1855, and within was found a kist-vaen of unhewn stones, covered with limestone boulders; but in the kist were only ashes, pieces of charcoal, and burnt dust.

From Nooks and Corners of Cornwall by Scott, C. A. Dawson

A master mind before the marble stood, Fresh quarried was it, rough and all unhewn, To other eyes it seemed a shapeless stone; To his, a stately form and beautiful.

From From the Thames to the Tiber or, My visit to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, etc. by Wardle, J.

The exterior is composed of unhewn logs or sticks of fir, fantastically arranged, with a thatched, moss-covered roof, and skins of beasts converted into semi-transparent parchment for windows.

From The Portland Sketch Book by Various