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Places of worship appeared in the shape of parallelograms, unhewed stones piled upon the ground, with a semicircular niche in the direction of Meccah.
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For the last, he vividly tells us, Wee did hang an awning, which is an old saile, to three or foure trees to shadow us from the Sunne; our walls were railes of wood; our seates unhewed trees till we cut plankes; our Pulpit a bar of wood nailed to two neighbouring trees.
Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997
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For the last, he vividly tells us, Wee did hang an awning, which is an old saile, to three or foure trees to shadow us from the Sunne; our walls were railes of wood; our seates unhewed trees till we cut plankes; our Pulpit a bar of wood nailed to two neighbouring trees.
Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997
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Neither would we have any expect our full sense to each particular imaginable in this business, -- it being only a heap of materials, mostwhat unhewed, that we intend, and not a well-compacted fabric; and if the main be not condemned, we are confident no difference will ensue about particulars, which must have their latitude.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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The logs are unhewed outside because I like the rough finish, but inside the walls are perfectly square and smooth.
Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart
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Sunne, our walls were rales of wood, our seats unhewed trees, till we cut plankes, our Pulpit a bar of wood nailed to two neighboring trees, in foule weather we shifted into an old rotten tent, for we had few better, and this came by the way of adventure for me; this was our
Captain John Smith Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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"We did hang an awning to the trees to shield us from the sun, our walls were rails of wood, our seats unhewed trees, our pulpit a bar of wood -- this was our 'church.'"
Five Sermons H. B. Whipple 1862
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Places of worship appeared in the shape of parallelograms, unhewed stones piled upon the ground, with a semicircular niche in the direction of Meccah.
First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855
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The logs are unhewed outside because I like the rough finish, but inside the walls are perfectly square and smooth.
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A huge untrodden haggard country, the "chaotic battle-field of Frost and Fire;" a country of savage glaciers, granite mountains, of foul jungles, unhewed forests, quaking bogs; -- which we shall have our own ados to make arable and habitable, I think!
Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838
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