Sentence examples for built of earth from inspiring English sources
American pyramids were generally built of earth and then faced with stone, and they are typically of stepped form and topped by a platform or temple structure.
René Caillié, a French explorer who arrived here in 1828, said it was "a mass of ill-looking houses built of earth".
Built of earth, stone and palm, the Berber villages decay gracefully, returning themselves to the earth.
Structural built of earth presently house an estimated 1.5 billion people about 30percentt of the world's population (Keefe 2005).
Cluj, Dăbâca and other royal forts built of earth and timber were strengthened after the 1068 attack.
LIke the cathedrals of Carlisle, Lichfield and Worcester, Chester Cathedral is built of New Red Sandstone, in this case Keuper Sandstone from the Cheshire Basin.
The State Capitol (1916), built of Utah granite and marble in Corinthian style, has an exhibition hall.
The present state capitol (the third constructed on the site; completed in 1859) is built of Vermont granite.
Plotland premises were holiday homes, with a unique twist: they were often built of London's detritus.
Built of Newark brownstone and held together with innovative iron-studded mortar, the castle's three-story walls are 40 feet high and 9 feet thick.
The British Museum as a whole is built of Portland stone, and it was this form of limestone that the contractor said it had delivered to the museum.
