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Meanings of roughhewn in английском

Of stone or timber; shaped roughly without finishing.

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Usage of roughhewn in английском
1
Her fingernails gently scratched on the roughhewn surface of the table.
A conspiracy of paper: a novel
2
A double crib of roughhewn logs, it was built to stay.
Blue Ridge Country
3
He pointed to a small, roughhewn cabin nestled in a cluster of fir trees.
Hush: a novel
4
They were roosting from the roughhewn overheads, huge, the size of crows or rooks.
Night Shift
5
Above them was a tinge of red hair set on a roughhewn, pockmarked skull.
The hunchback assignments
6
It was roughhewn by Chrysler for Queen Elizabeth's visit to Canada & custom-finished by Ghia in Italy.
The new yorker
7
Virtually everything is roughhewn and transparently bogus.
The Irish Times
8
Nevertheless, the altar has been left there-analtar of unpolished wood, placed against a background of roughhewn stone.
Les Misérables
9
She crawled from a nest of blankets on the stone floor and felt the roughhewn confines of her stone and wood cell.
Carrion comfort
10
His face was of the roughhewn type, in his two upper-class years his heavy frame had taken on a vast amount of brawn and muscle.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
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Roughhewn through the time