unhewn

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The poem, though rough and unhewn, still remains one of the marvels of early literature, and to Francis belongs the honour of setting his seal on the religious poetry 79 of his country.

From The Story of Assisi by Gordon, Lina Duff

Dolmen, dol′men, n. a stone table: the French name for a cromlech, a prehistoric structure of two or more erect unhewn stones, supporting a large flattish stone.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

A master mind before the marble stood, Fresh quarried was it, rough and all unhewn, To other eyes it seemed a shapeless stone; To his, a stately form and beautiful.

From From the Thames to the Tiber or, My visit to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, etc. by Wardle, J.