A hole had been excavated in the ground, partially uncovering a heavy chest, and across this chest lay the headless body of Doctor Carl von Horn.
Then they commenced to dig in the soft earth with their spears and parangs until they had excavated a shallow pit.
But when "new Rome" is condemned let us not forget that it has given us what the learning and the riches of the most munificent popes never compassed--an excavated Forum.
Marine currents then acted violently, and formed horizontal strata, by washing away solid matter in some parts, and depositing it in others; they also excavated deep submarine valleys.
Yet Balani and Serpulae can attach themselves to living corals, and holes are excavated in them by saxicavous mollusca.
The interior was filled with fluviatile silt, as was also the case in regard to a vessel discovered in a former bed of the Mersey, and another disinterred where the St. Katherine Docks are excavated in the alluvial plain of the Thames.
Valleys have been excavatedby running water, and floods have washed down hills into the sea.
The Anio throws itself into a ravine excavated in the ancient travertin, and its waters give rise to masses of calcareous stone, scarcely if at all distinguishable from the older rock.
But these volcanoes became exhausted, the valley was re-excavated through the silt, and again reduced to its present form before the period of human history.
The Tuscan naturalist labored to show that both the larger and smaller valleys of the Apennines were excavated by rivers and floods, caused by the bursting of the barriers of lakes, after the retreat of the ocean.
As soon as the river has excavated the new passage, bars of sand and mud are formed at the two points of junction with the old bend, which is soon entirely separated from the main river by a continuous mud-bank covered with wood.
The sea had excavated to the depth of sixty feet in the course of fourteen years, or perhaps a shorter period.
He paused and brought the flamelet of his candle near to the compartments excavated on either hand of the passage.
The furrowed tiers of seats, eaten into by the atmosphere, are like shapeless steps leading down into some old extinct crater, some natural circus excavated by the force of the elements in indestructible rock.
And in this wise, in these catacombs of St. Calixtus, in less than four centuries, the Christians excavated more than ten miles of galleries, in which more than a million of their dead must have been laid to rest.
The houses rise tier over tier, in short rows, or perched singly on curious platformsexcavated from the rock, in situations where back windows would be useless.
While walking up the hollow road that winds round the hill, you see on one side the entrances to the deeply excavated cellars, on the other a tavern, overshadowed by linden-trees, offering refreshing temptations to the thirsty visitor.
The arrangement of the two types of country house in the vicinity of Pompeii may be briefly illustrated by reference to an example of each, the villa of Diomedes and the farmhouse recently excavated at Boscoreale.
The portion already excavated contains more than twenty, each of them with three or four mills; bread was furnished, therefore, by a number of small bakeries rather than by a few large establishments.
The Nola Gate, and the partially excavated Vesuvius and Sarno gates, follow the plan just described in all essential particulars.
He first set about clearing the undisturbed places lying between the excavated portions; and when in this way the west part of the city had been laid bare, he commenced to work systematically from the excavated part toward the east.
The parts excavated were not left clear until after 1763, when the discovery of the inscription of Suedius Clemens, on the Street of Tombs, had established the fact that the site was that of Pompeii.
But the identification of a villa excavated in the last century, and then filled up again, as the villa of Cicero, is wholly without foundation.
This species is readily distinguished by the peculiar thickness of the lower half of the outer side of the ear-conch, which appears as it were excavated out of the thick integument of the neck; tragus short, curved inwards.
For, by a rare chance, we find depicted on the walls of the excavated house the actual flowers and herbs that were popular during Vettius’ lifetime, and these have been replanted by modern hands in the garden of the peristyle.
Dionysiac theatre, which was excavatedand identified in 1877; Attalus II.
But the numerous verticallyexcavated tombs outside the walls are of late date and belong for the most part to the Roman period.
And that same abode of Varuna (namely the ocean), being thus, excavated by the united sons of Sagara and rent and cut on all sides round, was placed in a condition of the utmost distress.
This lake was excavated by the feet of the cows given away by this king unto the Brahmanas on the completion of the sacrifice.
And, further this lotus-lake hath sprung from the cascades of the mountain; it hath not been excavatedin the mansion of Kuvera.
He had excavated a huge gloomy-looking hole, into which he retired when gorged with prey.
The villagers had a story that these tanks were the work of a mighty giant, Bheema, with whose aid and that of his brethren they had been excavated in a single night.
Made archaeological discoveries in Crete, 1893; excavated the Palace of Knossos.
Several cottages were damaged, several civilians as well as soldiers were killed or wounded, and a heavy shell excavated a deep hole in the garden of Monsieur Obernai's house.
Another remarkable group of barbaric jewelry, dated by coins as of the beginning of the 7th century, was excavated at Castel Trosino near the Picenian Ascoli, and is attributed to the Lombards.
This field was excavatedby the British Museum in 1896, and a considerable portion of the finds is now at Bloomsbury.
Nests are of wood chips in cavities excavated about 13 feet high in elm, honey locust, and ash.
Nesting chambers are excavated in sandy-clay banks, piles of sand, piles of sawdust, or similar sites, at ends of tunnels one to more than three feet in depth from the vertical face of the substrate.
Nests are piles of wood chips in cavities excavated in stumps and dead limbs of trees such as willow, cottonwood, mulberry, and catalpa, ordinarily about six feet above the ground.
Nests are of wood chips in cavities excavated 45 to 60 feet high in main trunks of cottonwood, sycamore, and pin oak.
Eggs are laid on the floor of the chamber at the inner end of a horizontal tunnel excavatedin an earthen bank.
Nests are of wood chips in cavities excavated about 25 feet high in willow, cottonwood, and elm.
Nests are of wood chips in cavities excavated about 20 feet high in willow, honey locust, ash, apple, and pear.
The cellars beneath comprise three stories, two of which are solidly roofed and lined with masonry, while the lowermost one is excavated in the chalk.
The proximity of the establishment to the Rhine did not allow of the cellars being excavated to a greater depth than 30 feet below the surface--a mere trifle when compared with the depth of many vaults in the Champagne.
Tons of thisexcavated marl were being spread over the soil of M.
Ackerman père discovered already excavated at Saint-Florent that induced him to settle there in preference to Saumur.
Rousteaux’s cellars here are excavated in the tufa cliff which rises behind the little suburban village, and are all on one level.
Near Pierry many cellars have been excavated in the chalky soil, to the flints prevalent in which the village is said to owe its name.
Many lakes occupy rock basins excavated by ice in the high Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges, in the Rocky Mountains from Colorado into Canada, in the Alps, and in the mountains of Norway.
A considerable number of these lakes occupy rock basins which have been eroded or excavated by the direct action of flowing ice.
I remarked a slight furrow, excavated in the ground in a straight line, representing the plan of a path or gallery.
It prefers very hard fine sand, such as is found in partially excavated sand-banks, and provisions its burrows with gnats.
The subterranean residence consists of a range of apartments, excavated in the earth, taking an horizontal direction.
Illustration: Cells of Carpenter-Bees, excavated in an old post.
This foundation, originally very small, was enlarged as the work required; while they excavated on one side a hollow, of about the width of a common cell, and on the opposite surface two others somewhat more elongated.
DC] The galleries and chambers which are roofed in as thus described are very similar to those of the mason-ants, being partly excavated in the earth, and partly built with the clay thence procured.
After coating the oothecae with more sticky secretion, the females adjusted the oothecae so that the keels were uppermost and then carefully concealed the oothecae with the excavated debris.
McCook (1877) excavated in February a nest of Formica rufa in Pennsylvania.
But on the previous night Amasis had excavated the place on which the oath was sworn, had covered the excavation with wood, and placed earth upon the wood.
For the first part it is excavated in the plain of Egypt, which lies towards Arabia, under the mountains opposite Memphis, in which are the stone quarries.
His weeping countrymen Deposited the remains of their excellent general In a grave, Which a fallen bomb in bursting had excavated for him, Recommending them to the generous faith of their enemies.
Consequently those who think that they have excavated sources of springs at the height of such hills find themselves mistaken when they open up their excavations.
Reisner, assisted by Mr. Mace, who excavated the royal tombs at Umm el-Ga'ab for Prof.
Schiaparelli, has lately discovered and excavatedsome very fine tombs of the XIXth and XXth Dynasties.
Gautier and Jéquier excavated the pyramid of Usertsen (Sen-usret) I.
The actual tomb-chambers are excavated in the rock, twenty feet below the ground-level and sixty feet below the top of the mastaba.
Amélineau first excavated the necropolis of the early kings at Abydos, and discovered most of the tombs afterwards worked over by Prof.
In 1901 an extensive prehistoric cemetery was being excavated by Messrs.
The new temple lies immediately to the south of the great XVIIIth Dynasty temple at Dêr el-Bahari, which has always been known, and which was excavated first by Mariette and later by Prof.
The cemetery of Nag'ed-Dêr is of the usual prehistoric type, with its multitudes of small oval graves, excavated just a little way below the surface.
The birds had excavated a hole in a rotten and dead tree about 18 feet from the ground, and had placed a pad of leaves only at the bottom of the hole.
Cut in the soft, sandstone, and devoid of any lining, it ran almost at right angles to Lease Lane, and proved to extend half way under that thoroughfare, and some four or five yards into the excavated ground.
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