The ceiling is low and the furniture is roughhewn. From Wordnik.com. [Memory Wall] Reference
Three roughhewn steps led to a covered porch, and the door was there, safely shaded. From Wordnik.com. [Solitary Man] Reference
The place was furnished with a roughhewn table, a few stools, and a beer barrel in the corner. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
To reach the mine workings they had to stumble up and down as many as 1730 uneven roughhewn steps. From Wordnik.com. [A MAN SENT FROM GOD] Reference
It's home to the 12th-century Jagannatha temple and three roughhewn (and highly sacred) wooden statues. From Wordnik.com. [10 Gorgeous Pilgrimage Sites You Need to See] Reference
The arrival-departure lobby of Phlegethon was a roughhewn cavern, very well lit, swarming with people of four races. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
Miss Colbert, the daughter of a fine family, must adjust to the roughhewn ways of her new neighbors and her new life. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
The roughhewn look of the cross is contrasted by the colorful and detailed craftwork that fills the rest of the altar. From Wordnik.com. [Cancun's Cultural Oasis: La Casa del Arte Popular Mexicano] Reference
Nevertheless, the altar has been left there — an altar of unpolished wood, placed against a background of roughhewn stone. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
In houses of the better class one occasionally finds roughhewn boards used for the floor of these platforms, as also for the walls. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
It is rare to find boards used for the walls, but, if used, they are roughhewn, and are laid horizontally and edgewise, one above the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
They are notably roughhewn and patchy, with convincing jumbles of distant buildings or nearby trees resolving themselves into pats of paint and line. From Wordnik.com. [A Poet of the Commonplace] Reference
The other musicians resumed their serenade and a few of the villagers struck up a brisk dance, but most were moving toward a line of roughhewn tables laden with food. From Wordnik.com. [The Time of the Transference]
It consists of four roughhewn pieces of wood approximately 1 meter long and about 10 centimeters high, set together on the floor and lashed in the form of a rectangle. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Between the drab gray walls, the roughhewn stone floors, and the school crest and Arthurian-themed tapestries hanging here and there, the place had quite an imposing air. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Ghosts] Reference
This, along with the references to Harrison and Peake, made me expect some thing rather different from PSS than the excellent roughhewn adventure story it turned out to be. From Wordnik.com. [More Of The Usual] Reference
Even the most fanciful—the most fantastical—of the costumes, however, did not create the sensation produced by the appearance of my brawny companion in his roughhewn, buckskin garb. From Wordnik.com. [Nevermore] Reference
It consisted of cabins of roughhewn logs surrounded by a stockade. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Ridge Country] Reference
In youth the land mass was roughhewn and cut deep by stream erosion. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
Duss, who was sporting a roughhewn gray haltertop of her own confection. From Wordnik.com. [KRDO.com] Reference
But the roughhewn shingles of the roof of the house sloped down closely. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Canyon] Reference
No one could have imagined that a man who came from such roughhewn beginnings would become such a global figure. From Wordnik.com. [Utah Policy - Politics, Communication & Government Relations] Reference
Wrought iron candelabra, lamps and horse-head hooks have a rustic charm, as does a roughhewn dining table and bench. From Wordnik.com. [Freep.com - RSS] Reference
Nevertheless, the altar has been left there -- an altar of unpolished wood, placed against a background of roughhewn stone. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
There's a small elevator to the hayloft, where the concerts take place, and modern light sconces have been attached to roughhewn support beams. From Wordnik.com. [The State Journal-Register Home RSS] Reference
He came upon a freshly dug grave and when he knelt to read the name carved into the roughhewn wooden cross, he discovered the name was ... his own. From Wordnik.com. [A Fiction-Filled Life] Reference
There's nothing subtle about their perspective, their roughhewn harmonies, or their blues-rock music (Kenny Wayne Shepherd contributes guitar to two numbers). From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
Aside from camping, the only lodging within the park is Le Conte Lodge, seven roughhewn cabins atop 6,593-foot-high Mount Le Conte, accessible by foot - a two - to four-hour hike. From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
(a) Raw or merely roughhewn with ax or saw, with or without bark; oaken barrel staves 0.20. From Wordnik.com. [A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison] Reference
A pile of roughhewn tree trunks had slipped. From Wordnik.com. [A Body In The Bath House]
Sarah sat in the first roughhewn pew. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
I found him in a lodging of old roughhewn stone. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
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