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  • In the courtyard, which was surrounded by a wall of rubble-stone, there stood another miserable hovel, smaller and older than the first and all askew.

    A Hero of Our Time 2003

  • In the courtyard, which was surrounded by a wall of rubble-stone, there stood another miserable hovel, smaller and older than the first and all askew.

    A Hero of Our Time 1916

  • Pee-wee lingered upon the veranda at Temple Court swinging his legs from the rubble-stone coping -- those same legs that had made the scout pace famous.

    Tom Slade at Temple Camp Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

  • The first churches built near these castles were plain buildings of wood or rubble-stone.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • The surface of the top of the mesa, comprising about ten acres, is naturally a rough naked space destitute of vegetation. the town is constructed after the usual style of the pueblos of New Mexico, and consists of from sixty to seventy houses two or three stories high, built of adobe or of rubble-stone, rising terrace-shaped, with flat roofs.

    The Pueblo of Acoma 1890

  • The houses were almost all built of oak frame-work filled with cob or plaster well whitewashed; though some had their lower stories of rubble-stone, with their windows and doors of well-moulded freestone.

    A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson 1886

  • In securing these mats rubble-stone is to be used in small quantities, and in some instances the dressed slope between high and low river will have to be more or less paved with stone.

    Life on the Mississippi, Part 12. Mark Twain 1872

  • In securing these mats rubble-stone is to be used in small quantities, and in some instances the dressed slope between high and low river will have to be more or less paved with stone.

    Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872

  • In securing these mats rubble-stone is to be used in small quantities, and in some instances the dressed slope between high and low river will have to be more or less paved with stone.

    Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. Mark Twain 1872

  • The Yucatan architecture shows the marks of its origin in the adobe and rubble-stone work of the

    The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871

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