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

I left it as for nearly two hundred years it has stood, "On its windy site uplifting gabled roof and palisade, And rough walls of unhewn timber with the moonlight overlaid."

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

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.

Self-faced′, undressed or unhewn; Self-fed′, fed by one's self.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various