clay-built

We follow him as he turns away from his clay-built mansion, and, regardless of the silent tears and entreating looks of his submissive, perhaps ill-used wife, hurries into the noise and excitement of the battle-field.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various

It will be a cold, cheerless room in a clay-built cabin down in the corner of a bare valley in a trap and basalt district with sparse vegetation and a bare aspect.

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

Then we passed the poor clay-built village of _Deaneh_, where the people were winnowing a large harvest of millet, and the Government tax-farmers with their soldiers, lent by the authorities, measuring the heaps.

Byeways in Palestine James Finn

It was little better than a shed, but was sheltered by an ash tree, and a clay-built shed alongside served for a rude stable.

Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett

When they reached the top of this ascent, they found a small clay-built hut, thatched with furze, erected close under the shelter of an immense rock, which hung with frowning grandeur over it, and seemed to threaten to crush it and its inhabitants to pieces.

The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People

After six hours 'travel, we halted for an hour and a half at Han Zaimit, a wretched clay-built shanty which I did not enter.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

One of those geological displacements that have taken place in past times would suffice to wipe out the memory of this town -- the palms would wither, the clay-built houses melt into the earth whence they arose.

Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910

Into whose clay-built walls the necklace of pearls was inwoven.

Evangeline. A Tale of Acadie 1909

Summoned to wait upon the king, I found him in a clay-built palace covering a very extensive area, and of one story.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Various 1909

We got within sight of the clay-built, flat Persian town of Hamadan about 10 p.m., but the car couldn't make any way on the awful roads, so I left Captain Williams at the barracks, and came on to the Red Cross hospital with two Russian officers, one a little the worse for drink.

My War Experiences in Two Continents Betty Keays-Young [Editor] Salmon 1890