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Granite in sentence

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In it you can view these primordial rocks that have never seen the light of day, this nether granite that forms the powerful foundation of our globe, the deep caves cut into the stony mass, the outlines of incomparable distinctness whose far edges stand out in black as if from the brush of certain Flemish painters.
I guided our steps toward a huge bay that made a crescent-shaped incision in the granite cliffs along the beach.
I am in the power of men upon whom I can have no more influence than upon statues of bronze or granite; they know me by heart, and are steeled against all my weapons.
The soil told of the neighbourhood of the mountain, whose granite foundations rose from the earth like the knotted roots of some huge oak.
This tract seemed crushed under a rain of enormous ejected rocks of trap, basalt, granite, and all kinds of igneous rocks.
I rose from my granite bed and went out to enjoy the magnificent spectacle that lay unrolled before me.
But, no; I saw him, with arms outstretched and legs straddling wide apart, erect before a granite rock that stood in the centre of the crater, just like a pedestal made ready to receive a statue of Pluto.
We are turning away from the primary granite.
Were we really crossing the layers of rock which overlie the granite foundation?
We have left the granite and the lava.
It penetrates directly downward, and in a few hours it will bring us to the granite rocks.
The passage through which we were moving was such a fissure, through which at one time granite poured out in a molten state.
Geologists consider this primitive matter to be the base of the mineral crust of the earth, and have ascertained it to be composed of three different formations, schist, gneiss, and mica schist, resting upon that unchangeable foundation, the granite.
We were immured within prison walls of granite.
I felt weighed down, and I exhausted myself with imaginary violent exertions to turn round upon my granite couch.
Then I began to hear distinctly quite a new sound of something running within the thickness of the granite wall, a kind of dull, dead rumbling, like distant thunder.
But there was a thick granite wall between us and the object of our desires.
The pick had soon penetrated two feet into the granite partition, and our man had worked for above an hour.
It was in vain that we took up fragments of granite, and stuffed them in with tow, we only scalded our hands without succeeding.
The granite tunnel winding from side to side, earned us past unexpected turns, and seemed almost to form a labyrinth; but, on the whole, its direction seemed to be south-easterly.
This well, or abyss, was a narrow cleft in the mass of the granite, called by geologists a 'fault,' and caused by the unequal cooling of the globe of the earth.
And yet it really mattered very little whether it was the plains and mountains that covered our heads, or the Atlantic waves, as long as we were arched over by solid granite.
Along its granite floor ran our faithful stream.
I was examining the beds of granite.
How I then blessed my uncle's foresight in preventing the hunter from stopping up the hole in the granite.
To my stupefaction and utter dismay my feet trod only--the rough dry granite.
There was not a trace of their footsteps or of my own, for the foot left no mark upon the granite floor.
My last hope was shattered against this granite wall.
I am surrounded by granite walls, and the loudest explosion could never be heard here!
Instead of the shining firmament, spangled with its innumerable stars, shining singly or in clusters, I felt that all these subdued and shaded lights were ribbed in by vast walls of granite, which seemed to overpower me with their weight, and that all this space, great as it was, would not be enough for the march of the humblest of satellites.
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