The most remarkable thing connected with the history of this bird is his oven-shaped nest. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
It was a low vaulted ceiling cut out of the live rock, almost oven-shaped, and hardly twelve feet high at the highest point. From Wordnik.com. [The Man-Wolf and Other Tales] Reference
The small, dark, oven-shaped room, smoky and foul with the smell of fish and dirt, was home to him -- the mud floor, worn smooth and hard with use, was strewn with mats and skins which served for chairs and beds. From Wordnik.com. [Four American Indians King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola] Reference
Others build a massive oven-shaped structure of clay on a branch or other elevated site. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in La Plata] Reference
But amid the whole scene our eyes took in nothing except that horrible covering of deaththe oven-shaped mound. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Lover. Pieces in Early Youth] Reference
But amid the whole scene our eyes took in nothing except that horrible covering of death -- the oven-shaped mound. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference
Hereward, indeed, had never seen, hidden as he was all day within the old oven-shaped Pict's house of stone, which had been turned into his den. From Wordnik.com. [Hereward, the Last of the English] Reference
The impression was so strong upon her that she rose, and, hastily enwrapping herself, went to the dark embrasures of the oven-shaped windows, and looked out. From Wordnik.com. [On the Frontier] Reference
One night the heat became so intolerable in our oven-shaped bough house that I was obliged to withdraw from under its cover and lie down a little to one side. From Wordnik.com. [In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs] Reference
In the genus Furnarius the oven-shaped clay structure is known to be made by three species; a fourth builds a nest of sticks in a tree; a fifth burrows in the side of. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in La Plata] Reference
On one side, a fountain of pure water spouted from the rock; on the other, a quantity of wood was piled up; and in some oven-shaped buildings, I found was stored a quantity of corn. From Wordnik.com. [Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas] Reference
During the baking process it sometimes happens that a piece of the fuel, which is composed of dried manure carefully built up oven-shaped around the vessels to be baked, falls against the vessel. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428] Reference
From the small oven-shaped hut on Isle Cochon, where he lived with his squaws and children, to Michilimackinac, from Michilimackinac to the lower Mississippi, and from the eastern end of Lake Erie down to the. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Middle West The French] Reference
In various parts of the cave, above and below the cornice, are deep cavities or recesses of various forms and sizes, some of them oblong, and others oven-shaped, of much the same character as those found in the French caves. From Wordnik.com. [Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe] Reference
On June 8th he found two more nests at Jaha Powah, on the ground, on edges of brushy slopes close to grassy open plains, the nest a large mass of grass, oven-shaped, open at one and in one case at both ends, protected by the root of a tree. From Wordnik.com. [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference
One of these crevices (K. Plate 44) terminated in an oven-shaped opening in the solid rock (Plate 50) and was completely filled in the lower part with soft red earth which formed also the floor in front of it and resembled that in the large cavern already described. From Wordnik.com. [Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2] Reference
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