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Example sentences for "rough stones"

  • After advancing six miles in line we turned to the right, and recited a Fatihah over the heap of rough stones, where, shadowed by venerable trees, lie the remains of the great Shaykh Abd el Malik.

  • The frontier is in some places denoted by piles of rough stones.

  • The major part of the wall is well built of rough stones, laid in clay, while the sides of the gateway are faced with carefully cut andesite ashlars of an entirely different style.

  • The walls of most of the houses are of rough stones laid in clay.

  • The walls had originally been built of rough stones laid in clay.

  • The walls were of rough stones laid in adobe.

  • The interior is presumably of rough stones in mortar, although little or nothing is said on this point.

  • These two parallel structures are solid masses of rough stones faced on all four sides with smoothly cut blocks, and were, so far as can be determined in their present condition, exactly alike.

  • Two pyramidal structures of rough stones in mortar, formerly covered with stucco, can, however, still be made out.

  • The area of this platform is flat, composed of rough stones, and has no traces whatever of ever having supported any building.

  • The fortress was a very plain structure, built of rough stones, in the form of a parallelogram, one side of which I paced, and found it between thirty and forty of my paces long.

  • Still further east, at D, he found a rude, circular mound of rough stones.

  • They can be followed for miles, and are described as being slightly raised and paved with rough stones.

  • They were more generally made of rough stones, rudely arranged.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    accusation against; could name; decisive action; great southern; happy life; heavy sleep; impartial jury; legislative union; lesser degree; loud shout; many particulars; much afraid; only brother; quilted cotton; rough draft; rough sketch; rough voice; rough water; rough weather; roughly speaking; send down; son temps; song somewhere; taken collectively; war against; what shall