unhewn

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The first 412 Cornellians were scrambling around the unhewn Ithaca campus in the autumn of 1868.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unjebanenjebet combed the showrooms of the local coffin makers, but found no coffin or unhewn block big enough for him.

From Time Magazine Archive

We clambered up this, and then perceived, still further to the right, the ruins of several huts and walls, built of unhewn stones and overgrown with the creeping beans.

From The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad by Knight, E. F. (Edward Frederick)

The interior is filled up with shingle and fragments of unhewn coral.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir

An unhewn stump of wood was the Dionysus idol of the rustic people.****

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew