Citations:megalithically

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English citations of megalithically

Intensifier[edit]

  • 2015, Mark L. Van Name, Onward, Drake!, Baen Publishing Enterprises →ISBN
    It would suck megalithically to have to live there, but that's another matter. But the most flavorful setting for a story is useless without gripping characters. Dave did the basic work of building the setting. He picked a scenario that's been a fertile ...

In a megalithic manner[edit]

  • 1877, The Reliquary, page 148
    The resemblance between the architecture of ancient Mexico and Egypt, megalithically and in the pyramid, is remarkable. In Thomas Maurice's " Indian Antiquities " (1793), there is a beautiful engraving of a large Mexican pyramidal temple to ...
  • 1955, Alec Brown, Yugoslav Life and Landscape
    ... if the ancient traditional material of the Slavs, predisposes to relief work or multiple miniature carving in the round,1 the vast, clearly-limned masses of their landscape when it comes to stone predispose the South Slavs to think megalithically.
  • 1959, Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford, Antiquity
    The first of these monuments is a large, megalithically constructed, collective tomb with a long rectangular chamber entered through a port-hole slab which is set between the main chamber and a short ante-chamber. The whole monument is ...

Other[edit]

  • 1968, David Wright, Patrick Swift, Minho and North Portugal: a portrait and a guide
    A veranda runs around its megalithically ornate exterior. The walls of this veranda are lined with a series of phenomenal azulejos depicting the Spirit of Portugal, or at any rate some fairly buxom wench in a see-through nightie, encouraging ...
  • 1994, Dialogue and Humanism: The Universalist Quarterly
    As societies grow megalithically, individuals shrink atomistically and ecosystems decay entropically. In this contextual ecology, human stress increases dramatically along with. Cosmopolitan Universalism: Prolegomena to a Future Ideology ...
  • 2001, John Moriarty, Nostos: An Autobiography
    In Connemara I must live Megalithically not Classically. In Connemara the only part of the Bible that made sense to me was the Book of Job. The swan's nest The hare's form The standing stone Some lines in a story I had written captured my ...
  • 2010, Richard Leviton, Walking in Albion: Adventures in the Christed Initiation in the Buddha Body, iUniverse →ISBN
    Later I understood yet another way in which the interference was self-generated. When you visit a sacred site, especially the very old megalithically-enhanced ones, you never know what karma of your own, from a past life, awaits you there.