Stalactites
in example sentence
But that which formed steps under our feet became
stalactites
overhead.
More example sentences with word stalactites
Because what seems a simple stalactite here is not made by calcium carbonate, but is made by opal, and one of those
stalactites
can require tens of millions of years to be formed.
In one place they found a spacious cavern, from whose ceiling depended a multitude of shining
stalactites
of the length and circumference of a man's leg; they walked all about it, wondering and admiring, and presently left it by one of the numerous passages that opened into it.
This shortly brought them to a bewitching spring, whose basin was incrusted with a frostwork of glittering crystals; it was in the midst of a cavern whose walls were supported by many fantastic pillars which had been formed by the joining of great
stalactites
and stalagmites together, the result of the ceaseless water-drip of centuries.
My couch, made up of all our travelling gear, was in a charming grotto, adorned with splendid stalactites, and the soil of which was a fine sand.
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