Lexicographical Neighbors of Nurhags
| nuptual nupur nuqta nuque nur nuraghe nuraghi nuraghic nurd nurdle | nurdled nurdles nurdling nurds nurhag nurhags (current term) nurikabe nurl nurled nurling | nurls nurn nurnie nurnies nurr nurrs nurs nurse's aide nurse-in |
Literary usage of Nurhags
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Historical Inquiry Into the True Principles of Beauty in Art, More by James Fergusson (1849)
"THE nurhags of Sardinia form a class of monuments belonging to the period of
which this volume treats, but scarcely sufficient in importance to entitle them ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1880)
"There is historic reference to the nurhags of Sardinia, and even their builder,
... There are some portions of these nurhags which appear of an older date, ..."
3. Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson (1872)
"The nurhags are placed at such distances as to aft'ord no support to one ...
Had the four detached nurhags at Santa Barbara been connected with walls only, ..."
4. Sardinia and Its Resources by Robert Tennant (1885)
"From the fact that many of these sepolture are found near to nurhags, some writers
have come to the conclusion that the two structures had some sort of ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"called nurhags (variously spelled also nuraghe, nuraghi, etc. ... Next to the
nurhags the most interesting of the remains of antiquity are the so- called ..."
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