He that lieth at ease, without activity, believing in destiny alone, is soon destroyed like an unburnt earthen pot in water.
He that cannot control sudden accession of joy or grief, is lost even though he may have obtained prosperity, like an unburnt earthen vessel in water.
The house-walls, on the other hand, were composed of unburnt sun-dried bricks.
With but few exceptions, all the house-walls which I have uncovered are composed ofunburnt sun-dried bricks, which in the heat of the conflagration have become a kind of really burnt bricks.
They are built of wood and unburnt bricks, but the immense quantity of timber which has been consumed would clearly indicate the vicinity of a large forest, even if one could not see its dark foliage towering on every side above the town.
If some particles of unburnt carbon remain in the bone ash, a similar result will be produced by the escape of bubbles of carbonic acid as soon as the fused litharge comes in contact with them.
It is made up ofunburnt anthracite and small lumps of slag proper together with some buttons of metallic tin.
He explains the cessation of the use of unburnt brick as due to the legal regulations of his time, which prohibited party-walls of more than 1½ foot in thickness, and unburnt bricks could only support one story above them in that size.
The kilns were constructed partly of burnt, partly of unburnt brick, the interior, floor, and outside of the roofs being covered with a strong layer of cement.
Thus unburnt products of the decomposition of organic substances occur in the interior of the flame.
The combustible gases and vapours can only remain unburnt inside the flame, for at the surface of the flame they come into contact with the oxygen of the air and burn.
Such furnaces are able to work continuously, because the unburnt limestone may be charged from above and the burnt lime raked out from below.
Imperfect combustion is not only always accompanied by the formation of soot or unburnt particles of charcoal, but also by that of carbonic oxide, CO, in the smoke (Chapter IX.
Sir Humphry Davy observed that on introducing a piece of wire gauze into a flame, it absorbs so much heat that combustion does not proceed beyond it (the unburnt gases which pass through it may be ignited on the other side).
All the buildings are, as already remarked, constructed of unburnt bricks, of which the greater part are stated to have been brought down the Euphrates, from the ruins of the neighbouring city of Babylon.
At a famous site near Salzburg, in upper Austria, over a thousand Bronze Age graves were discovered, just over half of which contained unburnt burials.
Propositions were made that they should divide into two parties, and go one to the right and the other to the left until they arrived at unburnt ground, the edge of which they should follow until they met.
The houses, with the exception of some few wooden ones which have been shipped over here by the Americans, are nearly all built of unburnt bricks.
The better class of farm-houses are built of adobes, orunburnt bricks, and tiled over.
The Pyramid of Cholula is composed of alternate layers of brick and clay, or possibly of burnt and unburnt brick; and others in Mexico are built of unburnt brick.
Fort Kearney is considerable of a fort, built of adobies or unburnt brick.
The fort is built mostly of adobies, or unburnt brick, and resembles Fort Kearney.
It burns with great brilliancy when heated in air or oxygen, and becomes converted into silica, which, owing to the great heat of combustion, fuses, and thus forms a superficial crust over the unburnt silicon.
The temples and the palaces of Asshur, Nineveh, and Chalah consisted for the most part of unburnt brick-slabs, dried in the sun and mixed with straw.
Akir is now a very miserable village of unburnt brick; indeed, all the villages of this district are of that material, owing to the extreme rarity of stone.
It may happen that in a badly regulated engine, unburnt gases may be discharged into this trough, forming an explosive mixture which will be ignited by the next explosion, causing considerable damage.
By no means should the exhaust discharge into a sewer or chimney, even though the sewer or chimney be not in use; for the unburnt gases may be trapped, and dangerous explosions may ensue at the moment of discharge.
The houses, too, at this period must have resembled the structures of unburnt brick of the present day, with their flat mud tops, on which the inmates sleep at night during the hot season, supported on poles and brushwood.
The wall is very thick and built of unburnt bricks, and the system of fortification seems to have been extremely simple at this period.
For some 3,200 years it rested undisturbed in the foundations of the wall of unburnt brick, where it was buried by Tukulti-Ninib on the completion of the city wall.
This was found in a barrow at Weaverthorpe,[948] with an unburnt body.
They have, however, been frequently found with the remains of unburnt bodies.
It was found in 1870 by Canon Greenwell, with other relics accompanying an unburnt body in a barrow at Rudstone, near Bridlington.
In the Yorkshire barrows they abound in company both with burnt and unburnt bodies,[1385] without any metal being present.
He has found others, both with burnt and unburnt bodies, in barrows in Yorkshire and Northumberland.
Earthen crucibles are used both in the burnt and unburnt state.
In this manner a precipitate consisting of a silica, together with some unburnt carbon, is left on the filter, whilst the filtrate contains the phosphates.
Try and love me still," said the duchess, letting her take one unburnt corner, and crumble the black tissuey fragments to smut in her hands.
There was no writing; the unburnt corner of the letter was a blank.
Hence the old metaphor of worthlessness of "bricks without straw," but of course in burning, and in modern processes of pressingunburnt bricks, straw is no longer used.
Vitruvius[324] distinguishes three varieties of unburnt bricks, as used by the Greeks.
Both burnt and unburnt bricks were employed in Egypt and Mesopotamia, and their use has already been referred to in the Introduction.
Recent excavations have yielded walls of unburntbrick at Eleusis, Mycenae, Olympia, Tegea, and Tiryns.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unburnt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
