The two statues in Bamiyan, 175 and 120 feet tall, are hewn from the side of a mountain. |
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The Basilica dates from the sixth century and contains forty eight pillars hewn from the while veined stone of the surrounding countryside. |
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It looked rather like someone had chopped off a tree bough and roughly hewn off all the twigs and leaves. |
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And he took it down, wrapped it in a long linen swathing cloth, and laid it in an unused sepulchre hewn from the rock. |
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There is a Greek open air theatre, the largest in Europe, hewn out of the rock and originally seating 15,000 people. |
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Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart provide a virile, rough hewn soundtrack that gives the film an aural authority it barely deserves. |
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This explains the somewhat rough hewn, fetchingly casual nature of his analyses of the game at certain key stages. |
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At his capital, Roha, he commissioned the construction of a large number of shrine churches hewn from the living rock. |
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To this day it remains filled with placid, crystal waters lapping at the craggy hewn cliffs. |
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Chris uses the rough hewn descriptive quality of stencils to depict scenes from an urban upbringing in Baltimore. |
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There are no promenades along its shores, just a sharp band of grey, rough hewn rock separating burnt soil from cool water. |
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The road was now a stony, unsurfaced single track that had been hewn out of the sheer mountainside, hundreds of metres above the valley floor. |
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The stone was instead hewn from the 400m-year-old sandstone rocks around Scone. |
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Dr Stanley's grave is marked by a very impressive piece of rock which I understand was hewn from a site in Matebeland. |
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Each statue was hewn out of hard volcanic material from quarries near the Rano Raraku volcano. |
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For thousands of years it has been hewn from the earth and fashioned into everything from buildings and roads to weapons and sculpture. |
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The formalist pieces, they of the universal spiritual titles, are simple flat discs of granite, roughly hewn. |
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Here the road has been hewn out of solid rock, so the cliff face overhangs the narrow roadway. |
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The main walls of the interior are mostly built of hewn stone, the apse stones are better and the conch stones are very well-hewn. |
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Mr Raha, when he was called on to build it, designed a long double-ended whaler, with a wide beam, and a keel hewn from a single log. |
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Up in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, balls, often roughly hewn and traditionally of applewood, are used to topple skittles that are club shaped. |
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Great horse-blocks, rows of stepping-stones, or hewn logs further graced the meeting-house green. |
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The pedestal, which is without the usual allegorical accoutrements, seems roughly hewn from the living rock overlooking the river Neva. |
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The walls of the passage were solid and rough, hewn from the granite outcropping upon which the Citadel stood. |
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His guitar may often remind you of a roadie falling downstairs, yet it suits this rougher hewn material down to the ground. |
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The house itself was built solidly, roomily, out of logs hewn on the timbered slopes above and dragged down to this little plateau. |
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We then descended 140 metres to the pit bottom and entered roadways hewn out of the rock more than 100 years ago. |
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It is hewn from local stone, has giant timber beams and large fireplaces, but has no turrets or moats. |
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After walking through river flats, they hiked up a steep slope strewn with rock rubble toward a structure hewn out of the side of the canyon. |
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Floating on the water was a large raft, made of smoothed logs, fastened together and topped with roughly hewn planks. |
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The emergence of the Greek revival style is evidenced by the rear piazza, which was supported by four Roman Doric columns, each hewn from a solid log. |
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There was a sale on in the shop just after Christmas, and I bought this groovy, beautifully cut shirt, hewn from the finest poplin, for about thirty quid. |
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At first glance the crevice seemed natural, but then his skilled eye noted that it was just too neat and had been carefully hewn by practiced, adept hands. |
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An outcrop of bare rocks jutting out of the hill, hewn into different shapes by eons of wind and rain, appeared like a sculpture gallery of Henry Moore. |
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The sculptures unfold their effect through tension between the hewn and the unhewn surfaces. |
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Freshly hewn laterite blocks lay piled up one side of the courtyard. |
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In the qibla wall there is a mihrab which has been hewn from the rock and panelled with polychrome marble. |
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Rising vertically from the plains, some of these huge monoliths soar to a height of 400 metres, and the squat buildings on top of each appear to be hewn out of living rock. |
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Firewood and the logs used for buildings and palisades were hewn with axes, adzes and wedges. |
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Assonance for solo clarinet is an emblematic work, and summarizes the mixture of constraints and freedoms within which Jarrell's works are hewn. |
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Few items have not, somewhere along the way, relied on what is hewn from the earth for their existence or at least for their location. |
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A monument to the landings, hewn out of local rock, was unveiled by Boro Vucinic, Montenegro's defence minister. |
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We began with a historical pilgrimage of return to the rock from which we were hewn. |
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Applied very thickly, it swiftly hardens and can then be worked, sculpted and hewn like real stonework. |
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The three-dimensional face is built up layer by layer, step by step, as if hewn from ice. |
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The shaft ends at the Fionnay power plant distributor, an enormous cavern hewn out of the rock. |
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In the centuries that followed, as Buddhism took root in the jungles of Southeast Asia, no lesser architectural wonders were carved from hewn sandstone and granite. |
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Her husband is unemployed and tries to provide for his family by making special picture frames out of roughly hewn pieces of wood with their bark still attached. |
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Their outside walls are constructed of great, roughly hewn stones fitted together without mortar, and the interior space is divided into a series of connected apses. |
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Like its fellow vintage guru predecessors, the record swells with analog warmth, mediating each instrument through its raw, rough hewn reel-to-reel median. |
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That extraordinary complex of shrines, churches, chapels and hermitages, hewn from the rock at Lalibela, were designed as an African mirror to Jerusalem. |
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Hand-crafted boats used by Yami fishermen are hewn from 27 pieces of wood. |
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In January 1504 half of the remaining crew mutinied and departed for Hispaniola, attempting to make the hundred-mile passage in canoes hewn from local timber. |
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Inspired by the sculptural lines of big-engined supercars, the muscular case is hewn from solid titanium for the best possible strength-to-weight ratio. |
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To the inland side, snow-peaked mountain ridges, hewn and crevassed by glaciation, alternated in the mist with mournful expanses of rimy moorland. |
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Bede however was critical of the fact that the church was not built of stone but only of hewn oak thatched with reeds. |
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A number of states parties and civil society organizations have hewn closely to the idea of verification of the BTWC as the most effective method of ensuring biological disarmament in this dynamic and complex environment. |
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We see before us the image of a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger that was, according to the tradition of the early church, hewn into the rock of a cave in Bethlehem. |
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With its massive flying buttresses and rough exterior of Nepean sandstone, the Library looks as if it were hewn from the craggy bluff separating it from the Ottawa River. |
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There are two storeys that are identical in layout and constructed of hewn limestone blocks alternating with courses of fired brick and decorated with stucco. |
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The water jet cuts, effortless without reequipping the machine metal, glass, piece of pottery, hewn stone, composites up to a thickness of 100mm and so forth and more. |
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Villa Charlotte Bronte resembled a storybook Italian hamlet hewn out of native rock, decorated with gardens, paths, and arches coming down off a tree-lined sidewalk on Palisade Avenue. |
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With an appearance that is relatively common to the region, it is built of local stone that was hewn on site, and its composition of miscellaneous architectural features gives it the look of an English manor house. |
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They were hewn square by skilled axemen on the cutting site, a process which left a large part of the tree on the forest floor in the form of useless chips. |
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The houses were hewn from lodgepole pine and had adze marks on the beams. |
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The planks were radially hewn so that the grain is approximately at right angles to the surface of the plank. |
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North of Addis Ababa we took a hard, dusty mountain road to the ancient holy city of Lalibela and marvelled at the monolithic cave churches hewn from bare rock. |
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On the north wall of the grave shaft, it is easily recognized how the 18 meter high north shaft, hewn crookedly in the rock, which is primarily still walled, joins the grave shaft. |
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The random, natural patterns of sharply hewn timber serve as inspiration for the Wood Grain Collection by American metalware designer Michael Aram. |
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In the basement areas, a rotunda in authentic hewn stone bears witness to 18th century architecture and highlights the rich and diverse collections presented in a decor worthy of a museum. |
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Above the town, on the mountain side, where the houses commence, there is another fort on a hill, the greater part of which is hewn out of the rock. |
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Logs are converted into timber by being sawn, hewn, or split. |
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Dave Merrington, a retired miner from South Hetton, County Durham, fashioned an aspiring trophy in 1975 from a lump of coal hewn from the Haig Colliery in Cumbria. |
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Trams are a kind of sledge on which coals are brought from the place where they are hewn to the shaft. A tram has four wheels but a sledge is without wheels. |
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