Of the ancient Greeks Pausanias tells us that they worshipped the gods through the medium of images, and that these images were unwrought stones.
A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal.
At once, therefore, this huge unwrought monolith suggests religion, and probably one of the earliest, and most primitive forms of worship.
It is a monolith of unwrought stone standing sixteen feet high.
Being unwrought it may have been erected at an earlier date, and might belong to an earlier culture.
Throughout all the world, the first object of idolatry seems to have been a plain unwrought stone, placed in the ground as an emblem of the generative or procreative powers of Nature.
Distance between Europe and Japan, and excessive Suez Canal tolls, give unassailable advantage to the United States as purveyor of unwrought materials to the budding New England of the Far East.
Were it brought across the Pacific in manufactured form, the duty on it would be almost prohibitive; in its unwrought state it enters the country free.
In the rough, in an unwrought or rude condition; unpolished; as, a diamond or a sketch in the rough.
These Steelyard merchants must also have a dispensation to carry a competent number of unwrought cloths that are coarse, which are the cloths whereof the great stay is in the Realm.
The export of British unwrought copper to the continent of Europe, and to the United States of America, was formerly inconsiderable.
Export of unwrought copper from Great Britain to all parts, except Asia:-- Years ending Jan.
Unwrought in bricks or pigs, rose and cast | | | | copper Cwts.
One piece of confirmatory evidence of trade in unwrought flint is the frequent occurrence of numerous flint flakes among the prized gifts deposited with the dead.
But the transportation of the unwrought blocks of hornstone to the work-yards in the valley would have involved great labour in the construction of roads, as well as of sledges or waggons suited to such traffic.
Those rude examples of primitive art lie alongside of the unwrought flint in such profusion that the examples of them already accumulated in the museums of Europe and America amount to many thousands.
It included four hundred and sixty-nine objects, of which twenty-two were unwrought jasper pebbles; one hundred and one were beads of an elongated cylindrical shape, and a few of them partially perforated.
The tool-bearing drift-gravel of France and England presents its relics of primitive art intermingled with countless amorphous unwrought flints.
And as soon as unwrought stones and clubs came into use there was mechanical compensation for the shortening of the arms.
Where properties are much divided, it is always necessary to maintain a thick barrier of unwrought coal between the boundary of the mine and the neighbouring workings, especially if the latter are to the dip.
