Sentences with word «earthen»

Matthew Lee Anderson is the author of Earthen Vessels: Why our Bodies Matter to our Faith and The End of our Exploring: A Book about Questioning and the Confidence of Faith.

Before the second wedding party we visit the second largest earthen dam in the world, a few kilometers outside Huize.

Beginning about 6000 years ago, these steppe people herded cattle and other animals, buried their dead in earthen mounds called kurgans, and may have created some of the first wheeled vehicles.

However, outdoor open fires can also be made more efficient by placing them in a hole in the ground or by shielding them with the use of earthen walls, which also adds thermal mass.

As a girl in a farming village in Hunan Province, China, Jiwen Fan — now a fast - rising atmospheric scientist — grew up in a household with earthen floors and no electricity.

Consider honed granite in earthen tones or nonporous soapstone, which shifts to charcoal gray or black with age and oiling.

Dan clad the interior walls in earthen plaster, a mixture of clay and sand with a little straw and cattail fiber as binders.

The slurry is then pumped into leaky artificial ponds with earthen dams.

Lots of litter is made from clay acquired from earthen mines.

An Earthship is in and of the Earth — that is, constructed responsibly out of earthen materials and built into the ground.

The sutler - woman, in bringing round to us for sale large earthen jars of hashed mutton, «chile,» and tortillas, would first serve to their own officers a saucer full generally for a medio, the sixteenth of a dollar, which they would eat with their fingers.

And then it offers earthen colors, reassuring themes, and more than a hint of Pollock's final drawings.

Often he slept in dirty cabins, on earthen floors, before the fire; ate roasting ears for bread, drank buttermilk for coffee, or sage tea for Imperial; took with a hearty zest deer or bear meat, or wild turkey, for breakfast, dinner, and supper, if he could get it.»

Those levees, most of which are simple earthen berms, are weak and vulnerable to earthquakes, seasonal floods, and rising waters expected as a result of climate change.

The Earthmovers — Centuries before Egypt's first pyramids were built, and long before Stonehenge, Native Americans constructed large earthen mounds in Louisiana.

Keokuk, IA — At approximately noon a water protector, Cameron Kennedy, 27, of Minneapolis locked onto the drilling waste vehicle Dakota Access Pipeline has been using to transport drilling byproduct to an unlined earthen pit near the Des Moines River on Johnson Street Road in Keokuk, Iowa.

The Ksar of Ait benhaddou is a group of Kasbahs; earthen buildings surrounded by high walls and 4 towers, one on each corner of the Kasbah.

Designed by Thai artisan Samart Takham, this bracelet circles the wrist with petite beads of sterling silver alongside earthen jasper and blue agate.

Every inch of grey in the Dreg Heap and Earthen Peak Ruins fades to give us a look into a once - great civilization much like Irithyl, Drangleic, or Anor Londo.

Contractors began building an eight - mile earthen dike to channel water from the Syr Dar» ya River to the northern section of the Aral.

Color in her paintings — from smudged whites and grays to earthen browns and blacks — seeps out from the floorboards and brick walls of the old carriage house that has been her studio for many years.

His closest friends will swear they never knew him, and in a muddy, earthen tomb he will join all who have ever slipped into the endless darkness.

A serene courtyard welcomes you to this recently remodeled house with its soft earthen tones and magnificent flagstone fireplace.

This one is open to the sun — high, grass - grown earthen embankments with a stone drainage ditch running through the middle.

Experience the quaint, serene, pragmatic way of life while absorbing the jaded and earthen appeal of the place.

Exuding glory and strength, this men's bracelet from Bali is beaded with round stones of tiger's eye with bold, earthen hues.

Her touch is on everything, from the Persian carpets and artistic earthen vases that adorn the alcoves behind his leather - tufted chair to the gold stud in his right nostril.

When it's time to call it a night, the rooms each have unique characters with harmonising earthen bases and traditional artwork.

The jewelry pieces are made by hand, using only aluminum scrap metal, rather than iron (of which there is also plenty), since aluminum has a lower melting point and can be liquified in the artisans» homemade earthen kilns.

At Fortune Inn Grazia, Noida, guests can savor the dishes of their choice with either the 24 hour room service or can choose to dine at Earthen Oven — the North Indian specialty restaurant.

Good uses earthen vessels.

The Dora and Baxter Benally home employs hand - made earthen brick, cork, and a river rock passive solar trombe wall.

From a picture book using bear hair and other earthen materials in its illustrations to a biography written in graphic - novel format, these books show girls and women exploring exciting ways to solve practical dilemmas through the courage of their convictions.

The mining process produces a waste known as coal slurry which is impounded behind earthen dams in the valleys of the former mountains.

That bird was believed to be related only remotely to other genera that nest in earthen burrows.

type of fluvial (river - formed) earthen terrace formed by the build - up of sediment on a river's banks.

Circling the neck with a wonderful array of white and black jade alongside earthen jasper, this long necklace from Guatemala is designed and crafted by Lorena Cofino.

It is said that on that day, he was welcomed back with rows of earthen lamps lit throughout the kingdom.

The Plantation Estate is a short walk from the Lobby and parking amidst towering palm trees with family - style seating and easy viewing of the raised earthen stage.

The seats, graduated for height, face a raised earthen stage.

Cut off from the rest of Nonthaburi province by the Chao Phraya river some 20 kilometres north of central Bangkok, the island of Ko Kret is home to centuries - old temples, a great weekend market and a Mon community known for its handmade earthen clay... Read more about Ko Kret.