The interior space was honeycombed with holes made by the shells.

HONEYCOMB in French, who has translated it as follows, without understanding the Original.

Mystic interweavings of endless lines, patient patterns interminably repeated in wood and stone and clay, all are here, from the tessellated paving of the court to the honeycombing of the cedar roof through which a patch of sky shows here and there like an inset of turquoise tiling.

Its church, used as a range-finder, apparently, was a gray honeycomb from which each day a few shells took another bite.

Sweet wine in little cups they sipped, And golden honeycomb Into their bowls of cream they dipped, Whipt light and white as foam.

The first Napoleon had the ground honeycombed under him by his enemies, who could not be suppressed, nor their labors be made to cease, even by his stern system of repression.