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Fetichism of the African, by the simplest and most shapeless objects, such as unhewn blocks of stone and by simple pillars or pieces of wood.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

Back then, perhaps, the trees grew more thickly in the altitudes, unhewn and unfired.

Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010

Through the crevices in the planks he caught a view of unhewn slabs and blocks of stone roughly cemented together, which passers-by might still have seen there ten years ago.

Les Miserables 2008

His opposition to the policy of militant nationalism which inspiredthe Mexican War had, he believed, ruined his political hopes; and living constantly with the great unhewn stones of his ambition,he was often betrayed, in the early fifties, into a moroseness or dejection of temper, for he saw no way either to rid himselfof his ambitious desires or to put them to a constructive use.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

His opposition to the policy of militant nationalism which inspiredthe Mexican War had, he believed, ruined his political hopes; and living constantly with the great unhewn stones of his ambition,he was often betrayed, in the early fifties, into a moroseness or dejection of temper, for he saw no way either to rid himselfof his ambitious desires or to put them to a constructive use.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

For a stone unhewn has been set up for Neptune, and diverse other shapes far different from the shapes they conceived of their gods.

Leviathan 2007

He who first hollowed the trunk of an oak for the purpose of crossing a river did not build galleys; nor did they who piled up unhewn stones, and laid pieces of wood across them, dream of the pyramids.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

His opposition to the policy of militant nationalism which inspiredthe Mexican War had, he believed, ruined his political hopes; and living constantly with the great unhewn stones of his ambition,he was often betrayed, in the early fifties, into a moroseness or dejection of temper, for he saw no way either to rid himselfof his ambitious desires or to put them to a constructive use.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

In Deuteronomy, chapter 5, these demands get trimmed to 14, as God apparently lost his whole appetite for altars (whether constructed of unhewn stone or dirt).

American Beat: Just How Many Commandments Are There Anyway? 2007

His opposition to the policy of militant nationalism which inspiredthe Mexican War had, he believed, ruined his political hopes; and living constantly with the great unhewn stones of his ambition,he was often betrayed, in the early fifties, into a moroseness or dejection of temper, for he saw no way either to rid himselfof his ambitious desires or to put them to a constructive use.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007