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- And he said to the woman who loved him, "I will go with mules and much gold, that I have hewn and washed and gathered, to a village in the East where my father and my mother are. [11]
- When we came to the base of the rock, we found a way cut, a narrow path, most of the distance hewn out of the rock, winding upward along the face of the precipice. [4]
- A shriek rang through the cave, and they could hear a heavy, rusty bolt drawn back, the roughly hewn door was opened, and a hoarse voice asked: "Is that Paaker? [10]
- Of some of these the plaster between the carved beams had been shot away, the roofs blown off, and the tiny hewn rafters were bared to the sky. [9]
- The side facing the north rested upon a solid substructure of hard blocks of hewn stone washed by the waves. [10]
- We swung by the lodge, the keeper holding open the iron gate as we passed, and into the wide driveway, hewn, as it were, out of the virgin forest. [9]
- Still moving through the gloom of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre we came to a small chapel, hewn out of the rock--a place which has been known as "The Prison of Our Lord" for many centuries. [5]
- He said of the fruitless tree, "It is hewn down. [5]
- The huge hewn stones which he required for this purpose had been taken from the Temple of Nemesis, which he was supervising. [10]
- One of the shows of the place was a tunnel-like cavern, which had been hewn in the glacier. [5]
- Mighty walls of rock composed the view, looking as if they were formed of angular masses of hewn stone piled up in rows; and of all the miners one, and one only, had eyes for these curious structures of the ever-various hand of Nature. [10]
- There were no precedents to meet our needs; our way had to be hewn out of a noisome, pathless wood. [11]
- The veterans who opposed the treachery were hewn down by the wretch's orders, but the brave garrison of the city could not be won over to the monstrous crime. [10]
- They were pillars of the temple of liberty; and now that they have crumbled away that temple must fall unless we, their descendants, supply their places with other pillars, hewn from the solid quarry of sober reason. [7]
- At the base of the cliff I find a hewn passage, as if there had once been here a way of embarkation; and enormous fragments of rocks, with steps cut in them, which have fallen from above. [4]
- The log walls of the barn and its snow-covered roof, that looked as if hewn out of some precious stone, sparkled in the moonlight. [2]
- In one side of it two ancient tombs are hewn, which are claimed to be those in which Nicodemus and Joseph of Aramathea were buried. [5]
- But she did not seem to hear him, and the other woman also retained the same attitude, as if hewn from stone. [10]
- Gangs of carpenters hoping for high pay arrived in Moscow every day, and on all sides logs were being hewn, new houses built, and old, charred ones repaired. [2]
- Those beams were hewn out of the forest two hundred and fifty years ago. [9]
- He had hewn every beam and king post in it, and set every plate and slip. [9]
- It is nothing but a dismal cavern, roughly hewn in the living rock of the Hill of Calvary. [5]
- Straightway I alighted at the gate,--a dismal crevice hewn into the dripping rock. [4]
- The narrow passages are roughly hewn in the rock, and on each hand as you pass along, the hollowed shelves are carved out, from three to fourteen deep; each held a corpse once. [5]
- Some little time ago, three of those trees were found hewn down. [5]
- They went into a room hewn out of the solid clay. [9]
- You heap up a million tons of hewn rocks on a square mile or two of earth which was green once. [6]
- He sat in a huge chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced timmerman of Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms and feet into exact imitations of gigantic eagle's claws. [4]
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