Sentences with phrase «earthen floors»

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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.

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.»

In a climate, whose chief requirement is protection from heat, their dwellings are as little encumbered with furniture as their persons with dress; and the coolness of the earthen floor renders it preferable to a bed.

In the main room, the owner of the house, a stocky man in a plaid shirt, has set a long plastic banquet table on the earthen floor, with a dozen plastic patio chairs around it.

After an earthen floor is put down, it is covered with an oil - based floor sealant that hardens and makes it easy to clean.

Dan installed an earthen floor on the first story of the Flouch, which he insulated with compressed light clay straw.

Not exact matches

The pieces were taken from 12 terra - cotta warriors, two acrobat statues found in a second pit, five clay bricks from the floor of the largest pit, clay fragments from inside three bronze waterfowl statues found in a third pit and part of an earthen wall in the acrobat pit.

rather than sinking into the floor space of the room, «kuhfladen», a single story dwelling, appears to grow from an earthen mound.

We've designed the house to use as high a percentage of natural materials as possible, including straw, timber, earthen plaster, and reclaimed flooring.