After breakfast, we went to see what was called a subterraneous house, about a mile off. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson]
This is the cause of the difference between those erupted lavas, and our whinstone, toadstone, and the Swedish trap, which may be termed subterraneous lava. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Earth~ Part 3 (historical)] Reference
A little from the shore, westward, is a kind of subterraneous house. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson]
Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley] Reference
Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current, through fear and silence. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Poets, Volume 1] Reference
'Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current, through fear and silence. From Wordnik.com. [Life Of Johnson]
A kind of subterraneous gallery, running for several yards parallel to the water's edge, so that if he should be assailed from one end, he flies to the other. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotes of Dogs] Reference
A subterraneous excavation, from which coal is obtained. From Wordnik.com. [A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.] Reference
Elysian fields, and presided as sovereigns over the whole subterraneous world. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
There are besides subterraneous vaults and galleries not expressed in the plan. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Besides all its own natural and subterraneous treasures, the Transvaal offers to the. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
Clark, on their return from the Columbia, boiled their meat in water heated by subterraneous fires. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
But else, and failing these cryptical or subterraneous currents of communication, for us the record is closed. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
Must he go again to that subterraneous abode, the entrance into which is stopped up, and gather them off the trees?. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
It is conveyed 700 yards in a subterraneous conduit to the establishment, whence it issues with a temp. of 71° Fahr. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Rome, in like manner, has a second and subterraneous town of vast extent, with its streets and squares in endless number. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Besides there is a door in it, which communicates probably with some subterraneous passage leading into the open country. '. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
Taryenya-wa-gon (Holder of the Heavens) extricated these six families from this subterraneous bowels and confines of the mountain. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
We were shewn likewise the aqueducts: the waters rise from a deep subterraneous spring, and are conveyed in a channel cut in a rock. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
Gil Blas the origin of the subterraneous passages, to which an allusion is also made by Raphael; now such are in France utterly unknown. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
Asia, and the deserts of Persia, those lakes without issue, or rivers which lose themselves in the sand or in subterraneous filtrations. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
Bolton, where he occupied an underground cellar, over which he put up the sign, "come to the subterraneous barber -- he shaves for a penny.". From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
At the east end of this subterraneous retreat, from the window through which the light faintly gleams, the scene is interesting to astonishment. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 574, November 3, 1832 Title] Reference
I saw the fiery lakes that are fed by subterraneous streams of lava, and the geysers of blue flame darting their immense tongues high in the air. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Thousand Worlds] Reference
Llanymynech, he ascended a craggy rock, and got into a subterraneous passage of great length formerly worked, it is supposed, by the Roman miners. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
Great bubbles rose to the surface and eddied to one side, then suddenly huge cascades of water shot into the air as if ejected by subterraneous pressure. From Wordnik.com. [Omega, the Man] Reference
Thus, amid these reflections, he took hold of the wooden box which he had received from the dervish in the subterraneous chambers in the ruined city near Shiraz. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The torrents poured from the mountains like molten gold, and if it had not been for its subterraneous outlet, the lake would have overflowed and inundated the country. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
Happily also for him he still had on the ring which the African magician had put on his finger before he went down into the subterraneous abode to fetch the precious lamp. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
The most curious parts of the palace, however, are the subterraneous passages, the entrance to which is usually through some part of the pillars; perfectly imperceptible till pointed out by the guide. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
The agriculturists, in all the Arab provinces throughout this empire, have subterraneous caverns or apartments, generally in the form of a cone, for the preservation of their corn during a scarcity or famine. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference
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