Bowlder

Suppose a 600-pound bowlder which is embedded in the ground is needed for the tower of a building. ❋ Bertha M. Clark (N/A)

August 22, 2008 at 9:02 am sheesh, lite dawnz ober bowlder hed for Princess Bride refrence. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Only it was turnip-hudded dunce, I beg your pardon, and he would jokes bowlder — blow the betholder with his black masket off the bawling green. — ❋ Unknown (2006)

And there, on the upper verge of the hole, raised by the leverage of the butt from the granite sand of the river-bed, I saw a great bowlder of rich yellow light. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

He hid behind a great bowlder and fell to listening. ❋ Unknown (2003)

(Zambales Province) there is a huge black bowlder which the Negritos believe to be the home of one powerful spirit. ❋ William Allan Reed (N/A)

These single rooms and small cluster remains are unusual in this region, and seem to replace the bowlder-marked ruins so common south of the East Verde (to be described more fully later). ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)

Stone's eyes caught traces of where a bowlder had been moved. ❋ Waldron Baily (N/A)

In the vicinity of the large ruin just above Limestone creek, previously described, the bowlder-marked sites are especially abundant. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)

Toward the evening we found ourselves in a bowlder-strewn basin amid rocky, sterile hills, evidently the offshoots and spurs of the ❋ Various (N/A)

No traces of this construction were found in the bowlder-marked sites, perhaps because no excavation was carried on; but it is evident that the rooms were not built of stone, and that not more than a small percentage could have been built of rammed earth or grout, as the latter, in disintegrating leaves well-defined mounds and lines of debris. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)

Externally these bowlder-marked sites have every appearance of great antiquity, but all the evidence obtainable in regard to them indicates that they were connected with and inhabited at the same time as the other ruins in the region in which they are found. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)

Plate XXXIII shows one of these bowlder-marked sites which occurs a little below Limestone creek, on the opposite or eastern side of the river. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)

It writhes with ceaseless noisy complainings through the twisting ways of bowlder-strewn gorges. ❋ Waldron Baily (N/A)

In the southern part of the region here treated bowlder-marked sites are more clearly marked and more easily distinguished than in the northern part, partly perhaps because in that section the normal ground surface is smoother than in the northern section and affords a greater contrast with the site itself. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)

He managed to break off several pieces, but it was easy to see that it would take much more work to loosen the retaining ridges so that the bowlder that imprisoned them would fall outward. ❋ Vance Barnum (N/A)

Plate XXI illustrates a type of bowlder masonry which occurs on Clear creek; plate XLVIII shows the masonry of the ruin at the mouth of the ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)

Though the stone thrown down by the man at the entrance prevented our heroes from escaping, the bowlder did not fit so tightly but what water could come in. ❋ Vance Barnum (N/A)

It is probable that the bowlder-marked ruins are the sites of secondary and temporary structures, erected for convenience in working fields near to or overlooked by them and distant from the home pueblo. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)

Frank placed his torch on a ledge of rock, tying the spring down by a piece of cord so that the light would focus on the big bowlder. ❋ Vance Barnum (N/A)