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- The floor was amber marble with black basalt trim, a handsome reminder that this building had once been a palace.† (source)
- The wind had blown the ash from the ice and the ice was black and the creek looked like a path of basalt winding through the woods.† (source)
- Half a cubic meter of basalt weighs about that much (more or less).† (source)
- Immense blocks of black basalt, each as large as a crofter's cottage, lay scattered and tumbled like a child's wooden blocks, half-sunk in the soft boggy soil.† (source)
- Boris had slid in cautiously behind me, hands in the pockets of his overcoat, leaving the front door wide open behind him, eyes on the big basalt urns, the chandelier.† (source)
- Python's tone was dry as basalt.† (source)
- In the center of the pavilion was a long table of black basalt veined in white.† (source)
- I grabbed the glass hemisphere and dashed it against one of the basalt blocks.† (source)
- Black caves dotted the towers, some natural, others clawed out of the basalt by talons as thick as Eragon's leg.† (source)
- Very old, rising out of the ground on a pow-erful arm of basalt The boy stood before it, trembling back and forth.† (source)
- The twin breathing orifices on either cheek-if those fluted, basalt curves could be called cheeks-emitted the faintest of whistles as Karellen's hypothetical lungs laboured in the thin air of Earth.† (source)
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- Isabelle went forward and touched the black basalt table, her fingers skimming the surface.† (source)
- So she held herself at the far end of the basalt slab they were using for a table.† (source)
- His face was chiseled and bronze, his eyes black as basalt, his curly dark hair glistening with oil.† (source)
- But there was nothing: a jumble of basalt blocks, spools of copper wire, a half-inscribed hemisphere of glass that was probably destined to become one of Kilvin's lamps….† (source)
- Like the others they had faced, this one wore a simple white tunic over skin as rough and dark as basalt.† (source)
- The guards marched Davos Seaworth across a bridge of black basalt and under an iron portcullis showing signs of rust.† (source)
- They reached the pavilion of the Speaking Stars, where the Brothers took their places behind their black basalt table.† (source)
- Eragon sighed and leaned his back against the rough basalt, looking at the sunset through his eyelashes.† (source)
- Where once a mighty curtain wall had stood, only scattered stones remained, blocks of black basalt so large it must once have taken a hundred men to hoist them into place.† (source)
- Evidence of the dragons' habitation was visible everywhere, from deep scratches in the basalt to puddles of melted rock to a number of dull, colorless scales caught in nooks, along with other detritus.† (source)
- At the base of the basalt monolith-which ascended from the forest floor like a mottled green pillar and stood a good hundred feet higher than the trees-Eragon murmured, "Halt," then slid to the ground.† (source)
- At one stage in the preparation of the mummy, the heart of the dead man was cut open and a basalt scarab in a gold setting, symbolic of the sun, was placed therein with the prayer: "My heart, my mother, my heart, my mother; my heart of transformations."† (source)
- Of course there are some more recent outcroppings,—sandstone showing through a shelf of Devonian basalt, and some vestiges of Mezozoic shale, but these are comparatively new— perhaps two or three hundred million years.† (source)
- Basalt is a brownish rock of igneous origin.† (source)
- I spotted him standing on a chunk of basalt.† (source)
- It took us two hours to reach the summit of this half–crystal, half–basalt peak.† (source)
- Still, the impression is that you are drawn through brilliant green meadows that run away on each side to the dark purple fir-woods; the basalt pinnacles; the immense forests.† (source)
- Indeed, to a lively mind, a dead intellect is more abhorrent than basalt, which at least does not make any claims to life and thought.† (source)
- They fought in the breakers, they fought in the sand, and they fought on the smooth-worn basalt rocks of the nurseries, for they were just as stupid and unaccommodating as men.† (source)
- For, frowning directly before him, like a huge and basalt headland above a troubled and angry sea, was the trial itself, with all that it implied—the fierce assault of Mason which he could only confront, for the most part, with the lies framed for him by Jephson and Belknap.† (source)
- Now it happens that fifty minutes away from Nauheim, by a good train, is the ancient city of M——, upon a great pinnacle of basalt, girt with a triple road running sideways up its shoulder like a scarf.† (source)
- Rocks like basalt, remnants of former realities, which the Spirit has left so far behind that it refuses even to associate the notion of reality with them, persist in their dogged way; their very lumpish, dead continuance unfortunately prevents them in their inanity from realizing how inane they are.† (source)
- At Callyan they reached the junction of the branch line which descends towards south-eastern India by Kandallah and Pounah; and, passing Pauwell, they entered the defiles of the mountains, with their basalt bases, and their summits crowned with thick and verdant forests.† (source)
- Through the outlets now made first escaped the ejected basalt of which the plain we had just left presented such marvellous specimens.† (source)
- This tract seemed crushed under a rain of enormous ejected rocks of trap, basalt, granite, and all kinds of igneous rocks.† (source)
- A few shafts of basalt, torn from their hold by the fury of tempests, lay along the soil like remains of an ancient temple, in ruins for ever fresh, and over which centuries passed without leaving a trace of age upon them.† (source)
- After the exhaustion of the basalt, the volcano, the power of which grew by the extinction of the lesser craters, supplied an egress to lava, ashes, and scoriae, of which I could see lengthened screes streaming down the sides of the mountain like flowing hair.† (source)
- In fact, the great plutonic action is confined to the central portion of the island; there, rocks of the trappean and volcanic class, including trachyte, basalt, and tuffs and agglomerates associated with streams of lava, have made this a land of supernatural horrors.† (source)
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