All the long, yellow flank of the hill was honeycombed with little, dark doorways and leering windows, whence wild faces looked.
She had lost a third of her population, her commerce was almost destroyed, her staple industry gone, and she was honeycombed with debt.
The position was immediately in front of this honeycombed slope on the Jackson road.
Here two brigades of Confederates were posted and on the crest above them were the supporting batteries, while the slope between was honeycombed with the rifle-pits of the sharpshooters, one of which is seen in the picture.
The rock itself over which the fort was raised is honeycombed with excavated passages for infantry and cavalry, of different width and height, so that one sort can be assigned to mounted horsemen and another to foot soldiers.
Dazzling as marble are these rocks, pointed and honeycombedwith constant dashing of the restless sea, tufted with corallines and grey and purple seaweeds in the little pools, but hard and dry and rough above tide level.
Some fragments are so honeycombed that they are as light in the hand as touchwood; others have undergone little, if any, chemical change.
Their enemies were convinced that they were somewhere in the town, or, rather, underneath the town, for the rock on which it rests is honeycombed with quarries.
Difference in significance produced by such slight variation in form as to be, to a careless observer, symmorphic.
Coffins and cradles seem the main furniture, and he hears the tramp, tramp, tramp of the generations passing over a soilhoneycombed with tombs, and therefore ringing hollow to their tread.
All those seen were on or near massive snags of dead trees still standing, but decayed andhoneycombed with cavities.
The ground beneath was honeycombed with tunnels connecting the flask-shaped nest cavities, which were in part open to the rock surface on their upper sides.
It was a strange little home indeed, Spanish, one-story, its dormers hidden by a honeycombed screen of terra-cotta tiles.
But I was conscious ever of a strange wish to expand, for I felt as tho' I were in the land of the Liliputians, and the thought of a gallop of forty miles or so over these honeycombed fields brought me to a laugh.
It was always an effort for me to control my impatience after the first rattling was heard in the morning of the stage that brought the mail, and I avoided the waiting group in front of the honeycombed partition of boxes beside the "office.
It is honeycombed with dugouts in which the Germans who clung to it found their graves, while the victorious British army swept around it toward Bapaume.
In the Rue Bourbon the little shops were empty, the doorstep where my merry fiddler had played vacant, and the very air seemed to simmer above the honeycombed tiles.
In addition to the armadillos, the ground is in many places honeycombed by the bischachas, which somewhat in size and appearance resemble rabbits, and by a little burrowing owl.
Mind how you gallop, boys: the ground is honeycombed with armadillo holes; and if your horse treads in one, you will go over his head.
These bands may appear honeycombed and the spaces filled with yellowish fluid (serum) or they may be uniformly solid.
As the quantity of connective tissue is increased the tumor is firmer and of a more honeycombed appearance.
The waters have here worked like enormous moles, and have honeycombed the foundations of the earth.
In England the rabbit burrows in the ground to such an extent that in places the earth is honeycombed by them, and the walker steps through the surface into their galleries.
Notice how the black masses of peat along the banks are honeycombed with holes, as if somebody had been pushing down the point of his umbrella.
But the piddocks drive their burrows into the rock just below the surface of the water, boring backward and forward till it is completely honeycombed by their tunnels, which only have just the thinnest of walls left between them.
The latter exist in large numbers, and some portions of the Moon's surface appear honeycombed with them, the smaller craters resting on the sides of larger ones and occupying the bottoms of the more extensive areas.
The surface of the Moon round Tycho is honeycombed with small volcanoes.
I have made him suffer enough this last hour; and I shall directly begin again cutting out the small pieces of lead which have honeycombed his flesh.
And thereupon, resuming his probes and his sponge, he had gone to work once more, with the aid of the countess, digging out grain by grain the lead which had honeycombed the flesh of the count.
The southern side of the mountain sloping down to the Pevmica was honeycombed with elaborately constructed caverns, drilled out of the solid rock by the Italians.
Beaumont-Hamel lies in the fold of a ridge and was honeycombed with dugouts and the defenses so cunningly prepared that it was extremely difficult for the British artillery to destroy them.
It consists of inferior oolite, which furnishes excellent building stone, and the hill in consequence is honeycombed with quarries.
The Mendips are honeycombed with caverns, the most notable being at Banwell, Harptree, and Burrington; and a large one has been recently discovered some 4 m.
I suppose now that place is honeycombed with cellars for the storage of--of--yellow.
Then I understood that the graveyard was honeycombed with cellars, and that this place formed the central depôt of Iredale's traffic and his distributing station.
On a first hearing this sounds fairly plausible, yet it is honeycombed with error.
The high ground on either side was honeycombed with layer after layer of Jap emplacements.
The empire was honeycombed with sedition when the military reverses of the summer began.
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