There would be a few empty huts of leaves, with old ashes at the entrances, and a midden with its usual gorgeous butterflies.
They stood about a ruin of felled trees, with a middenand its butterflies in the midst.
The vanished methods of expression of the later Palæolithic peoples, of the Azilians, or of the early Neolithic kitchen-midden people for instance, were probably much cruder than the most elementary form of Aryan.
Those early kitchen-midden people were among the most barbaric of Neolithic peoples, their stone axes were rough, and they had no domesticated animal except the dog.
The byre was built on the shoulder of a hillock; the midden was situated in a grotto hollowed underneath.
They include unusual aggregates of stone and/or implements, hearths, or any circumstance that appeared atypical of the relatively homogeneous midden deposit as it was understood in 1947.
The midden thins out on the periphery more rapidly toward the west than to the east.
The midden material is extremely compact, and there is a suggested development of a soil profile.
We had often previously seen its bones in the Fuegian midden heaps, where its skull, with the long curved orange-coloured incisors, was a conspicuous object; but this was the first recent specimen we succeeded in getting hold of.
That they get this kind of fresh meat but rarely is evident from our inspection of their midden heaps, hillocks of refuse in the vicinity of the huts, consisting mainly of shells.
To midden thisre stilnise fang irtha an to bevande lik as hju starvande were.
Nv send wi alsa mild west vmbe tha witherkvmande Hellena folgar wither in vs midden to nemande, men ik skrom and ben serelik ange, that hja vs mild-sa vrjelda skilun mith vrbruding vsra rene tale.
What d'ye think o' a midden i' the very middle o' your toon?
In the centre of the court was a midden for manure.
Koganei published the fact in 1903, thought the Dumbuck kitchen midden an appropriate place for a figurine.
Munro, possibly less well-informed, regards the bottom of a kitchen middenat Dumbuck as "a strange resting place for a goddess.
This midden occupied the space between the south margin of the log-pavement and the surrounding stockades--some 10 or 12 feet in breadth by about double that in length.
Now, as a pile, in order to obtain a holding, must have been driven at least two feet in the ground, it is evident the peat must have grown at least one foot above the summit of the kitchen-midden before this pile was driven in.
Close by, the point of a pile, part of which is exhibited, was found upright in the peat; it had been driven in in such a manner that the point descends to the level of the kitchen-midden and no farther.
Yes, look at it now; this hole here, it's the midden for the whole Brigade.
Mrs. Midden says that I make a mistake to give a spring cleaning every day, but I love to keep the house looking perfectly spick and span, and I make hot bread twice a day, because Oliver is so fond of it.
I forgot to tell you that Mrs. Midden has found me such a nice servant.
Mrs. Midden has told me of a boarding-house in the country not more than twenty miles from here where Oliver could come down every evening, and we may decide to go there for a month or two.
He wanted to ask Mrs. Midden to sit downstairs (she has offered over and over again to do it) so that I might go too, but of course I wouldn't let him.
Then, Mrs. Midden says that they get ruined just as soon as they are brought here.
The still Water-midden instantly stayed her singing and looked up at him.
And the Water-midden gazed sorrowfully into his face.
And Nod could not think what in his turn to give the Water-midden for a remembrance and a keepsake.
Then the Midden floated out into the middle of the stream, and with one light hand kept herself in front of Nod, her narrow shoulders slowly twirling the while in the faintly-rosied starlight.
The Water-midden looked at Nod, and drew softly, slowly back her smooth gold locks from the slippery water.
The Water-midden turned away and stooped over the water.
Then the Water-midden lifted both her hands, and scattered back her long pale locks over her narrow shoulders.
And the Water-midden looked up at him unfrightened, and saw the truth and kindness in his eyes.
Then," said the Water-midden sorrowfully, "I will not ask.
But the Midden was now rocking and floating on the shadowy water, her bright hair sleeking the stream behind her.
The Water-midden smoothed slowly back her gold locks.
I have seen the eyes of a wandering Midden of Tishnar?
But the Water-midden seemed not now to be listening.
Then the Water-midden looked long and gravely at him out of darkling eyes.
The dune sand is, as recently exposed profiles show, quite free from other kitchen-midden remains than those which occur upon its surface.
A disorderly midden was always to be found in the near neighbourhood, with a number of draught dogs wandering about on it seeking something to eat.
An' now they don't imploy so many men Upon the land as work'd upon it then, Vor all they midden crop it worse, nor stock it.
The Kitchen-midden at Boyndie, near Banff, had long been known as a famous place for shells.
The shells found by Edward in the kitchen-midden at Boyndie corresponded in a great measure with those found by the Rev.
What, however, is more significant than would be the use of polished-stone implements by the kitchen-midden men is the evidence of their use of canoes, and therefore the evidence that they understood the art of navigation.
I do not say that houses were unknown to the kitchen-midden men; only that we have no proof that they lived in houses; and we are here taking the evidences of advancing civilization as we come across them.
And at any rate the mammalia contemporary with the kitchen-midden men are very different from those of the drift or of the caves.
The smell of the midden was heavy in my nostrils, and the smoke of the fire was paining my eyes.
London is the world, journalism is the midden of creation.
The byre was built on the shoulder of a hillock and the midden was situated in a grotto hollowed underneath; its floor was on a level with the cart-road outside, and in the corner of this vault we had to build a fire for cooking our food.
Then all of us sat down together and ate our supper like one large family, and because we were very hungry did not mind the reeking midden behind us.
From across the black midden I looked into the vault which was still dimly lighted up by the dying flames, and there I saw Norah speaking to the old man.
This table, therefore, seems to me to conclusively demonstrate that the sewage of water-closet towns is far more bulky and far more filthy and dangerous than the sewage of midden towns.
The fact, therefore, that the total solid and suspended matters is less by 3½ grains in the water-closet towns than in the midden towns can only be accounted for by the enormous dilutions of the excremental matters in the sewage.
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