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Meanings of unhewn in English

Unhewn.

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          1
          These timbers were covered with loose unhewn stone common to the neighborhood.
          Four Months in a Sneak-Box / A Boat Voyage of 2600 Miles Down th...
          2
          It was built of unhewn stone, and had small windows and loop-holes.
          Debit and Credit / Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
          3
          It is not at all ornamental: rough, unhewn arches and clumsy piers.'
          A Laodicean : A Story of To-day
          4
          It could be of unhewn granite, and I can manage the walls myself.
          Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02
          5
          It was built of unhewn logs, and had a mud roof.
          Added Upon / A Story
          6
          The figure was of white magnesium limestone, and stood upon rock yet unhewn.
          The Yoke / A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Chil...
          7
          The stones that composed them looked now enormous, cracked and unhewn.
          In a glass darkly
          8
          Everywhere around us are unhewn rocks stirred with a strange motion.
          Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes; a Satire
          9
          Jagged pieces of yet unhewn sandstone they were, with cruel edges.
          Painted Windows
          10
          They were built of unhewn stone, but solid, and not inelegant.
          A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
          11
          The pines divide with an unhewn granite boulder the honor of being his monument.
          History of American Literature
          12
          At Rovesche, the urn was placed in a square chest made of unhewn stones.
          Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples
          13
          The first specimens of Greek sculpture were rough, unhewn wooden representations of the gods.
          Mosaics of Grecian History
          14
          The circular form, the horseshoe form, the unhewn Hele Stone, all bespeak religious origin.
          Stonehenge, Today and Yesterday
          15
          Rough unhewn walls resolved themselves out of our wavering vision.
          Helen of troy
          16
          Judging by what I saw, London stone was a rudely shaped and unhewn post.
          Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.
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