Tapalguen itself, or the town of Tapalguen, if it may be so called, consists of a perfectly level plain, studded over, as far as the eye can reach, with the toldos, or oven-shaped huts of the Indians. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The small, dark, oven-shaped room, smoky and foul with the smell of fish and dirt, was home to him -- the mud floor, worn smooth and hard with use, was strewn with mats and skins which served for chairs and beds. ❋ Edson Leone Whitney (N/A)
The most remarkable thing connected with the history of this bird is his oven-shaped nest. ❋ Various (N/A)
It was a low vaulted ceiling cut out of the live rock, almost oven-shaped, and hardly twelve feet high at the highest point. ❋ Erckmann-Chatrian (N/A)
Tapalguen, itself, or the town of Tapalguen, if it may be so called, consists of a perfectly level plain, studded over, as far as the eye can reach, with the toldos or oven-shaped huts of the Indians. ❋ Unknown (1909)
But amid the whole scene our eyes took in nothing except that horrible covering of deaththe oven-shaped mound. ❋ Unknown (1892)
Others build a massive oven-shaped structure of clay on a branch or other elevated site. ❋ Unknown (1881)
In the genus Furnarius the oven-shaped clay structure is known to be made by three species; a fourth builds a nest of sticks in a tree; a fifth burrows in the side of ❋ Unknown (1881)
In various parts of the cave, above and below the cornice, are deep cavities or recesses of various forms and sizes, some of them oblong, and others oven-shaped, of much the same character as those found in the French caves. ❋ Unknown (1879)
One night the heat became so intolerable in our oven-shaped bough house that I was obliged to withdraw from under its cover and lie down a little to one side. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
From the small oven-shaped hut on Isle Cochon, where he lived with his squaws and children, to Michilimackinac, from Michilimackinac to the lower Mississippi, and from the eastern end of Lake Erie down to the ❋ Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1874)
On June 8th he found two more nests at Jaha Powah, on the ground, on edges of brushy slopes close to grassy open plains, the nest a large mass of grass, oven-shaped, open at one and in one case at both ends, protected by the root of a tree. ❋ Allan Octavian Hume (1870)
The impression was so strong upon her that she rose, and, hastily enwrapping herself, went to the dark embrasures of the oven-shaped windows, and looked out. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
During the baking process it sometimes happens that a piece of the fuel, which is composed of dried manure carefully built up oven-shaped around the vessels to be baked, falls against the vessel. ❋ James Stevenson (1864)
But amid the whole scene our eyes took in nothing except that horrible covering of death -- the oven-shaped mound. ❋ Unknown (1855)
The first, or nomad, is the hide or mat thrown over a bush or a few standing sticks; then comes the cylinder, the round hovel of the northern and southern regions, with the extinguisher or the oven-shaped thatch-roof; and, lastly, the square or oblong form which marks growing civilisation. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)
On one side, a fountain of pure water spouted from the rock; on the other, a quantity of wood was piled up; and in some oven-shaped buildings, I found was stored a quantity of corn. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
Hereward, indeed, had never seen, hidden as he was all day within the old oven-shaped Pict's house of stone, which had been turned into his den. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)
