earthen

Example Sentences

• "1826, James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans A hundred earthen dwellings stood on the margin of the lake […]"
• "But transects have also been utilised in a large variety of arenas, including surveying the contents of Amerindian earthen mounds[.]"
• "1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation ... the Godfathers and Godmothers follow into the midst of the Church, where there is a small table ready set, and on it an earthen pot ful of warme water, […]"
• "But, leſt theſe Reaſons ſhould be eſteemed conjectural, I ſhall farther prove, and confirm my Opinion from Martinius, who, in the Place before quoted, ſpeaks in the following Manner: "It is not without Reaſon, that the City Gnihing [translating 宜興 /宜兴 (Yíxīng)] receives that Name, which, in their Language, ſignifies the Glory of the Earth; and which was beſtowed upon it, becauſe in it are made the earthen Veſſels, uſed in diluting, and drinking their Tea."
• "Will they be yours when one by one these earthen / Delights and comforts and all beauties wane? / Will they be found laid up above, illumined?"
• "Their inter-tillage operations, earthening-up of some crops and tillage in orchard/gardens or plantation crops, are stated below, under special cropping system in different situations."