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  • The outer walls were of rough gray stone studded with pieces of seashell and coral, as if the slabs had been hewn straight from the bottom of the ocean floor.†   (source)
  • Three massive hand-hewn beams, hauled here from some ancient Breton forest and craned into place centuries ago by teams of horses, hold up the ceiling.†   (source)
  • Hew!†   (source)
  • A black toilet seat, worn through to wood in some places, is set in the middle of a rough-hewn bench.†   (source)
  • The great barn was glowing with lanterns swinging from the hand-hewn timbers.†   (source)
  • A wooden stair ascended the south face, anchored on huge rough-hewn beams sunk deep into the ice and frozen in place.†   (source)
  • They were rough-hewn, put together with cold nails.†   (source)
  • After halting the Tuskegee study, HEW proposed new Protection of Human Subjects regulations that would require, among other things, informed consent.†   (source)
  • Mr. O'Halloran tells the class it's a disgrace that boys like McCourt, Clarke, Kennedy, have to hew wood and draw water.†   (source)
  • Sleeping bunks are hewn right into the rock walls.†   (source)
  • Its proportions are too chunky, too broad of beam, too crudely hewn.†   (source)
  • He had gone five years before her, to prepare everything, to build a little house with a woodstove and furniture hewed from tree branches.†   (source)
  • With heavy footsteps Murtagh led Eragon to a stone-hewn staircase at the end of the hall.†   (source)
  • The poet's silver hair had been cropped into rough-hewn bangs.†   (source)
  • The statues were hewn directly from sandstone cliffs right in Bamiyan, which is situated on the ancient Silk Road, the caravan route which linked the markets of China and central Asia with those of Europe, the Middle East, and south Asia.†   (source)
  • Afterward, Annie had, at Mae's insistence, shown her some documents, ancient yellowed papers detailing their family history, a beautiful black portfolio of genealogies, scholarly articles, pictures of grave old men with extravagant sideburns standing near rough-hewn cabins.†   (source)
  • I realized hew as wearing a suit and tie with running shoes.†   (source)
  • Meggie saw old houses of gray, rough-hewn stone, with a pale church tower rising above the rooftops.†   (source)
  • She had watched the little rough-hewn box as it was lowered into the earth, and then she had returned to her home.†   (source)
  • This, and the fact that the Hayes Society tended to be a rather secretive body, lent it much mystique for a time, ensuring that the pronouncements it occasionally issued on professional matters were received as though hewn on tablets of stone.†   (source)
  • Like most greystones it was a crudely hewn rectangle about a dozen feet tall.†   (source)
  • He knew that the cell had a flagged stone floor, that three of the walls were hewn rock, and that the fourth was made of narrowly spaced electrum bars, each end sunk deeply into stone.†   (source)
  • Light flared to reveal a rock-hewn cavern with an ornithopter squatting in its center.†   (source)
  • Together we drove in the family station wagon far into the Michigan countryside to a farm run by a rough-hewn woman and her ancient mother.†   (source)
  • True that we were stupid and ugly and lazy and dirty and, unlucky and worst of all, that God Himself hated us and ordained us to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, forever and ever, world without end.†   (source)
  • With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.†   (source)
  • /HEW/ Nothing dramatic.†   (source)
  • The snow made hewing wood difficult, too.†   (source)
  • Though they don't look the same—she has red hair and a generous frame; his features are dark and his body, spare as wire—they have the same sort of look, like two stones hewn by the same chisel.†   (source)
  • Unfinished and rough-hewn, a man still waiting to happen.†   (source)
  • I stare at the rough-hewn wood until I hear his footsteps clatter over top of us.†   (source)
  • Before the girl could respond beyond an answering smile and "good morning," the new friend had put his own alpenstock into her hands and gone to the roadside, where, with unerring judgment, he selected a long, straight, tapering shoot of ash, and hewed it deftly with a monster jack-knife drawn from his trousers pocket.†   (source)
  • Smith was standing by the track rail, weighing the angles and gestures of low-level horses as they streamed to the post, when a weedy three-year-old bay stopped short in front of him, swung his head high, and eyed him with an arch expression completely unsuited to such a rough-hewn animal.†   (source)
  • When I was young and in me prime,
    Eh, aye, I could hew . . .†   (source)
  • Hewing principally to the rugged Indus River Gorge, the KKH has cost the life of one road worker for each of its four hundred kilometers.†   (source)
  • There are exposed roof beams, rough-hewn brick and concrete walls, and a roll-up, see-through garage door.†   (source)
  • ] Anyway, ogling the hew of his shoulders and back is not why I'm here.†   (source)
  • With what strength he had he hewed at the crawling arm near the wrist, and the hand broke off; but at the same moment the sword splintered up to the hilt.†   (source)
  • Hurricanes, floods, fevers, the plague-and the damp of the Louisiana climate itself worked tirelessly on every hewn plank or stone facade, so that New Orleans seemed at all times like a dream in the imagination of her striving populace, a dream held intact at every second by a tenacious, though unconscious, collective will.†   (source)
  • I could see that his broad nose had been broken a few times, but he was still good-looking in a rough-hewn sort of way.†   (source)
  • At the start of this afternoon's college prep class, a kid whom Cedric thought was pretty tough sort of blushes as he hands in a rough-hewn personal essay.†   (source)
  • The buildings looked hewn from volcanic rock.†   (source)
  • It sounded nothing like the laconic, rough-hewn man who'd taken him in.†   (source)
  • They ate in near-perfect silence thirty feet from each other in a dark hall hewn from granite deep in the Swiss Alps.†   (source)
  • In it he described the two-thousand-year-old Jewish dream of a return to Zion, the Jewish blood that had been shed through the centuries, the indifference of the world to the problem of a Jewish homeland, the desperate need to arouse the world to the realization of hew vital it was that such a homeland be established immediately on the soil of Palestine.†   (source)
  • Heavy hand-hewn beams held up the roof, and below lay stones that were quarried hundreds of years earlier.†   (source)
  • Eventually the government, the HEW, the FDA, and others agreed with Jensen and sanctioned further clinical testing over the protests of Stone and others.†   (source)
  • It was a philosophy unfamiliar to most Yankees, who saw nothing inappropriate about a captain shaving one of his soldiers, or rough-hewn General Putnam standing in line for his rations along with everyone else.†   (source)
  • His eyes were hard; sharp and black, like the hewed edge of a stone.†   (source)
  • She spoke beside a rough-hewn cross held together by a rusty nail.†   (source)
  • As the robed figure reached the top of the primitive rock-hewn staircase, Jason pressed his trigger finger, holding it in place, the fusillade of bullets exploding out of the The monk arched in silhouette, then fell, his body tumbling, rolling, sprawling down the steps carved out of volcanic rock, finally lurching over the edge and plummeting to the sand below.†   (source)
  • He lorded from the porch of a rough-hewn shanty, calling names and then waving his arms like a frantic bird, directing deliveries, the removal of mud and dirt and the efforts of the teams.†   (source)
  • We have always built here with what we have to hand, so our walls arc hewn of the common gray stone and the roofs thatched with heather.†   (source)
  • They built the fire for the barbecue in a sheltered bend of the creek below the ford, where two rough-hewn wooden tables with fixed benches stood the year round, their tops warped and runneled and bleached the palest gray by the elements.†   (source)
  • The giant's head and limbs were massive and rough-hewn, as though it had crawled out of some bubbling vat of primal clay and cooled before it could be properly shaped.†   (source)
  • It, too, was built by General Tweedy, out of hand-hewed logs and hand-sawed and handplaned boards, and had portholes in the upper story for shooting Indians.†   (source)
  • We walked down East Bay Street, crossed South Battery, and continued under the grove of wind-hewn oaks to the seawall that separated the aristocracy from the Ashley River.†   (source)
  • A rough-hewn maypole has been erected on a gentle slope farther on.†   (source)
  • In the morning he woke up to the sounds and gestures made by a hew blur of staring white faces walking by his cell.†   (source)
  • I prefer it here in the mostly unconsidered rooms of the basement, the stone walls rough-hewn, damp, ill lighted like any memory.†   (source)
  • Brindisi was so hot and bright that anyone who looked at it too long would go blind, and, apart from Virgil's Column, everything was as square and flat as if it had been hewn from salt.†   (source)
  • And there was a small desk of rough-hewn wood by the window, where the morning light fell upon it.†   (source)
  • Not hewn out and tortured the way White men do with iron.†   (source)
  • The building itself was made of hand-hewn logs and roughly cut bare boards.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, suppose I were to discover some sort of rough-hewn genius?†   (source)
  • Amid echoes of these overheard murmurs The boughs of the apple and cherry trees Bedeck themselves in whitish blossoms In the gardens with their rough-hewn palings.†   (source)
  • She told herself that it was foolish and sinful to look backward when her safety lay before her, like a hiding-place hewn in the side of the mountain.†   (source)
  • Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder,   (source)
  • A rough-hewn beam supported the ceiling.
  • It was as though the features had been hewn on to a great stone ball.†   (source)
  • It was a low gray building hewn from sea stone, with shells and coral fossils imprinted in the rock.†   (source)
  • The rough-hewn stone shimmered in the rain, and doves cooed in the architecture overhead.†   (source)
  • The vice minister's wife sits so upright that it seems as if her spine is hewn from oak.†   (source)
  • In front of him was a rough-hewn hole in the wall.†   (source)
  • His visage was grim, weathered, and hewn of many years' experience.†   (source)
  • Ser Gregor Clegane's face might have been hewn from rock.†   (source)
  • His fingers drummed against the rough-hewn planks of the table.†   (source)
  • Above the cairn that marked their resting place, the victors had raised a rough-hewn wooden marker.†   (source)
  • The hut, with its thatched roof and roughly hewn veranda, was the picture of modesty and quiescence.†   (source)
  • Young, lean, rough-hewn, he had good teeth and a thick mop of chestnut hair.†   (source)
  • The walls were hewn from white-silver adamas, so that a dim light seemed to glow from within them.†   (source)
  • Finally, they fixed a white circle hewn from marble where the red leather straps crossed.†   (source)
  • Till now I have hewn naught but wood since I left Moria.†   (source)
  • The lead soldier hewed at Roran with a spiked ax.†   (source)
  • Nine wide steps had been hewn from the stony hilltop.†   (source)
  • Max soon glimpsed faint torchlight dancing on walls of rough-hewn stone.†   (source)
  • But no, he lived in a tiny room hewn from a mountain of potsherds.†   (source)
  • Instead, the interior had been decked out in every corner with crosses of rough-hewn wood.†   (source)
  • Gimli hewed the legs from under another that had sprung up on Balin's tomb.†   (source)
  • As the rough-hewn huts of the village shrank behind them, Saphira said, They will make good Riders.†   (source)
  • When she entered, he was seated behind a rough-hewn table, writing.†   (source)
  • The rough-hewn door beside me squeaks open and Kinko comes out.†   (source)
  • Beyond were still more steps, hewn out of solid rock.†   (source)
  • The knoll on which the temple stood was honeycombed with passageways hewn from the rock.†   (source)
  • They had been hewn with many cruel strokes, and two had been beheaded.†   (source)
  • Ever he clutched me, and ever I hewed him, till at last he fled into dark tunnels.†   (source)
  • And they hewed Hama's body before the gates of the Hornburg, after he was dead.†   (source)
  • He hewed a two-handed stroke and laid the last Orc before his feet.†   (source)
  • The outstretched neck she clove asunder, and the hewn head fell like a stone.†   (source)
  • A notched and broken sword lay by him, as if he had hewn at the rock in his last despair.†   (source)
  • Behind them loomed Jack London's dream home—a massive ruin of red and gray stones and rough-hewn timber beams.†   (source)
  • Like a rough-hewn cubbyhole, the recessed niche reminded Langdon of a museum alcove designed to hold a statuette.†   (source)
  • Around the perimeter, interspersed with the tombs, a series of semicircular niches were hewn in the wall.†   (source)
  • Two giants sat on the outskirts of the group, casting massive shadows over the scene, their faces cruel, rough-hewn like rock.†   (source)
  • No trace of these diggings and defensive walls remains: after its destruction, the hewn stone blocks were carried off by enemies or strangers for use in their animal pens, their water troughs, and their crude forts, or buried by waves and wind under the drifting sand.†   (source)
  • More than eight thousand of Art's pilgrims seeking escape from the tyranny of mediocrity and searching for a renewal of vision on this rough-hewn world.†   (source)
  • And I actually think that he thought that our group was strong enough that we could repeat that… So I think there is a push so that when you wind up again in the news, in the magazine, it's all reported favorably It was late morning by the time I finally humped into Camp Three: a trio of small yellow tents, halfway up the vertiginous sprawl of the Lhotse Face, jammed side by side onto a platform that had been hewn from the icy slope by our Sherpas.†   (source)
  • The dust that permeated the Northwest lay in a thin layer over his simple and rough-hewn bed and kitchen implements.†   (source)
  • On the counter was arranged a series of objects—among them a syringe, a vial of dark liquid …. and a large knife with a bone handle and a blade hewn of iron burnished to an unusually high shine.†   (source)
  • A choir of merpeople was singing in the middle, calling the champions toward them, and behind them rose a crude sort of statue; a gigantic merperson hewn from a boulder.†   (source)
  • It is a rather cosy room, dominated by a large, roughly hewn table of the sort one might expect to see in a farmhouse kitchen, its surface unvarnished and bearing many small marks left by choppers and breadknives.†   (source)
  • His face is scarred from smallpox, and his shoulders look as though they've been hewn from soft clay.†   (source)
  • On a hill overlooking the kingsroad, a long trestle table of rough-hewn pine had been erected beneath an elm tree and covered with a golden cloth.†   (source)
  • Sophie slipped through the door and found herself on a rough-hewn stone staircase that spiraled downward.†   (source)
  • Ye remembered reading his articles, which were written in a beautiful style, sensitive and fine, ill suited to the rough-hewn environment.†   (source)
  • Their dim glow was aided only by a pale shaft of moonlight that filtered down through the expansive oculus in the ceiling and illuminated the room's most startling feature—an enormous altar hewn from a solid block of polished Belgian black marble, situated dead center of the square chamber.†   (source)
  • Over the carcass of the horse, they built a platform of hewn logs; trunks of smaller trees and limbs from the greater, and the thickest straightest branches they could find.†   (source)
  • Against the far wall, flanked between two glistening suits of chain mail armor, was a rough-hewn fireplace large enough to roast an ox.†   (source)
  • He had not been handsome, but death had smoothed his rough-hewn features and the silent sisters had dressed him in his best velvet tunic, with a high collar to cover the ruin the lance had made of his throat.†   (source)
  • The demon appeared elated, his dark, rough-hewn face stretching to an exultant grin as he staggered forward on his cane, one arm held wide as though to embrace them all.†   (source)
  • Normally, he did not mind being in enclosed places, but the tunnel reminded him of the warren of rough-hewn passageways within Helgrind where he and Roran had fought the Ra'zac—hardly a pleasant memory.†   (source)
  • He lived alone in a hall of moss and mud and hewn logs that had once been Haggon's, attended by his beasts.†   (source)
  • I can tell when a chamber was hewn as easily as I can gauge the age of a shirt by the wear of the threads.†   (source)
  • Its timbers were of hand-hewn oak, its inner walls of brick, these finished on the inside with lath and plaster and faced on the exterior with pine clapboard.†   (source)
  • Columns made from rough-hewn tree trunks held up the ceiling, which was lined with spears for rafters.†   (source)
  • They were handmade, rough-hewn.†   (source)
  • The walls were made of rough-hewn stone blocks chiseled with Greek inscriptions—thousands and thousands of them, like graffiti.†   (source)
  • The walls were rough-hewn limestone.†   (source)
  • When Eragon approached the gates to the hall's enclosure, five dwarves pushed the rough-hewn timbers aside, then closed in around him, hands on their axes and swords as they inspected the street.†   (source)
  • I'm back,Saphira announced just as Eragon put his foot on a rugged step hewn out of the rock below him.†   (source)
  • They wound their way through interconnecting tunnels and rough-hewn burial chambers that all looked the same—the walls carved with dusty niches that might once have held bodies.†   (source)
  • Here at home, he wore traditional Wakhi tribal dress, a rough-hewn brown woolen vest, a floppy white wool skiihd on his head, and knee-high riding boots.†   (source)
  • We sat on rough-hewn, three-legged wooden stools, low to the ground, with a woven basket table between us.†   (source)
  • She was only walking up some steps that the Night's Watch had hewn hundreds and thousands of years ago.†   (source)
  • Other einherjar in fuzzy green hotel bathrobes chased each other around the rough-hewn pillars that lined the hall, playing hide-and-seek-and-kill.†   (source)
  • They believed a second country hewn out of the U.S., one perhaps made up of America's southern states and relying heavily on cotton and agriculture, would be eager to secure a reliable cash influx.†   (source)
  • The hand-hewn plantation house, painted white, still had much of its original pre—Civil War furniture.†   (source)
  • Pittsburgh, at the end of the rough-hewn wagon road over the Allegheny Mountains, was the westernmost town of any consequence in the country and had fewer than 500 souls.†   (source)
  • It was built of rough-hewn timbers and had a small steeple, one modest window of ordinary glass, and an abundance of charm.†   (source)
  • I slipped beneath the netting of the mess tent and slowly made my way across the dusty red clay of the yard, past the officers' quarters and privy, then past the narrow comfort house, its walls rough-hewn and unpainted and smelling of fresh-cut wood, to where the canopy rose up again and the shade cooled the air.†   (source)
  • In the main room lay a rough-hewn table twelve feet long, upon which a map of Alagaesia was staked open with daggers at the four corners.†   (source)
  • It was a flat row of hewn blocks.†   (source)
  • She knew him slightly—one of Bronze Yohn's sons, comely in a rough-hewn way, a tourney warrior of some renown.†   (source)
  • Fortifications were hewn into the dolomite by hand, in the cold, in air that caused newly arrived troops to gasp for breath.†   (source)
  • They dug shallow footers, laid the stones, leveled them, and then placed massive hewn timbers across the stones as the sill plates.†   (source)
  • The Lord Commander had holes hewn in the top of the Wall and he put the deserters in them and sealed them up alive in the ice.†   (source)
  • Through the throat of one huge leader Aragorn passed his sword with a thrust; with a great sweep Boromir hewed the head off another.†   (source)
  • Maclay, the most radical and outspoken Anti-Federalist in the Senate, was a rough-hewn lawyer from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania who stood six feet three and believed he was serving among a "set of vipers."†   (source)
  • At the base of the pyre stood the crib—hewn with such love and joyful expectation—that the Livesedge child had died in.†   (source)
  • On both sides of the river, where the two towers of the bridge would stand, hundreds of slabs of rough-hewn granite were stacked, awaiting construction.†   (source)
  • When evening came and the food was cooked, they sat at the rough-hewn tables the dwarves had built just that day.†   (source)
  • A sparkling vista of slanting, needle-sharp spires, glittering, paperthin edges, and rippling surfaces confronted Eragon as he heaved himself onto the rough-hewn planks.†   (source)
  • Your friends and family will be bound in chains, destined for slavery in foreign lands, or slain before your eyes, hewn open by soldiers' merciless blades.†   (source)
  • Then EA's regional service of DC-3s flew a daily looping, hopscotch route so that you could leave the Hilton Addis Ababa in the morning, see the castles in Gondar, the ancient obelisks in Axum, the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, and be back in the Hilton lounge in Addis just when the good-time girls were drifting in trailing perfume, and the Velvet Ashantis were playing their theme song, a version of "Walk—Don't Run" by the Ventures.†   (source)
  • Slowly at first, some limping or leaning on their fellows, the captives began to emerge from their rough-hewn pen.†   (source)
  • About the hall, a ragged score of black brothers squatted on the floor or sat on rough-hewn benches, drinking cups of the same thin onion broth and gnawing on chunks of hard-bread.†   (source)
  • Wickford had wedged great slabs of gray limestone carefully intothe walls and hewn sturdy boughs to make sound stemples.†   (source)
  • The room was sparse and plain, with bare stone walls, a rough-hewn table, three chairs, and a prayer bench.†   (source)
  • They stood on a makeshift pier built from a few planks of rough-hewn oak not even nailed together but merely wedged into the rocks that stuck out from the bank of the wide stream.†   (source)
  • In steep places stairs of stone had been hewn, but now they were cracked and worn, and split by the roots of trees.†   (source)
  • Boromir leaped forward and hewed at the arm with all his might; but his sword rang, glanced aside, and fell from his shaken hand.†   (source)
  • The Book Tower was the fattest of the ten, octagonal in shape and made with great blocks of hewn stone.†   (source)
  • In a score or so of years from now, I thought, someone like me will sit down to rest right here on this stone and her fingers will play idly in those holes, and no one will remember why they were hewn so or the great sacrifice that we made here.†   (source)
  • Stannis stood behind the rough-hewn table where the Old Bear had once been wont to sit and take his meals.†   (source)
  • Great shadows sprang up and fled, and for a second they saw a vast roof far above their heads upheld by many mighty pillars hewn of stone.†   (source)
  • Beneath the snow they found a dozen huts and a longhall, with its sod roof and thick walls of rough-hewn logs.†   (source)
  • When they emerged north of the Wall, through a thick door made of freshly hewn green wood, the wildling princess paused for a moment to gaze out across the snow-covered field where King Stannis had won his battle.†   (source)
  • Here through the black rock a long tunnel had been hewn, closed at either end with mighty doors of iron.†   (source)
  • The light of sun and star and moon In shining lamps of crystal hewn Undimmed by cloud or shade of night There shone for ever fair and bright.†   (source)
  • Then he saw that they were indeed shaped and fashioned: the craft and power of old had wrought upon them, and still they preserved through the suns and rains of forgotten years the mighty likenesses in which they had been hewn.†   (source)
  • The chamber was hewn out of the stone; and it must once have been dark, for its windows looked out only into the tunnel.†   (source)
  • Up to the threshold of the door there mounted a flight of twenty-seven broad stairs, hewn by some unknown art of the same black stone.†   (source)
  • It dived into dells, and hugged steep banks; and where it passed over flatter and more open ground on either side of it there were lines of large boulders and hewn stones that screened the travellers almost like a hedge.†   (source)
  • No trees grew there; but among the rank grasses could still be seen the burned and axe-hewn stumps of ancient groves.†   (source)
  • They stood on a wet floor of polished stone, the doorstep, as it were, of a rough-hewn gate of rock opening dark behind them.†   (source)
  • If we are not hewn down, or destroyed by fire or blast of sorcery, we could split Isengard into splinters and crack its walls into rubble.†   (source)
  • Ere iron was found or tree was hewn, When young was mountain under moon; Ere ring was made, or wrought was woe, It walked the forests long ago.†   (source)
  • Some of the trees they just cut down and leave to rot — orc-mischief that; but most are hewn up and carried off to feed the fires of Orthanc.†   (source)
  • She reached the hole, and squeezing down, leaving a trail of green-yellow slime, she slipped in, even as Sam hewed a last stroke at her dragging legs.†   (source)
  • They found a broad path, paved with hewn stones, now winding upward, now climbing in short flights of well-laid steps.†   (source)
  • Now they were drawing near, and it seemed certain that they would escape: they had already hewn down three Riders that barred their way.†   (source)
  • Then Frodo stepped up to the great grey net, and hewed it with a wide sweeping stroke, drawing the bitter edge swiftly across a ladder of close-strung cords, and at once springing away.†   (source)
  • Forty-two he hewed in the battle.†   (source)
  • Up the green terrace went a stair of stone, high and broad, and on either side of the topmost step were stone-hewn sea, There sat other guards, with drawn swords laid upon their knees.†   (source)
  • Its head was gone, and in its place was set in mockery a round rough-hewn stone, rudely painted by savage hands in the likeness of a grinning face with one large red eye in the midst of its forehead.†   (source)
  • His scarlet robes were tattered, his corslet of overlapping brazen plates was rent and hewn, his black plaits of hair braided with gold were drenched with blood.†   (source)
  • At their right, eastwards, the torrent fell, splashing over many terraces, and then, pouring down a steep race, it filled a smooth-hewn channel with a dark force of water flecked with foam, and curling and rushing almost at their feet it plunged sheer over the edge that yawned upon their left.†   (source)
  • Dismayed the rammers let fall the trees and turned to fight; but the wall of their shields was broken as by a lightning-stroke, and they were swept away, hewn down, or cast over the Rock into the stony stream below.†   (source)
  • They had not come very far from the road, and yet even in so short a space they had seen scars of the old wars, and the newer wounds made by the Orcs and other foul servants of the Dark Lord: a pit of uncovered filth and refuse; trees hewn down wantonly and left to die, with evil runes or the fell sign of the Eye cut in rude strokes on their bark.†   (source)
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