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Granite in sentence

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The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc.
He stood with his legs a little separated, his arms folded, his head bowed, as if he were brooding over that enormous wilderness of peat and granite which lay before him.
There was the sharp pinnacle of granite still cutting the lower edge of the moon, but its peak bore no trace of that silent and motionless figure.
Landing at the foot of a high wall of granite, he shook himself vigorously; and then, setting off running, soon disappeared behind a rocky point, which projected to nearly the height of the northern extremity of the islet.
This point abutted on the shore in a grotesque outline of high granite rocks.
The second level was separated by a perpendicular granite cliff, terminated at the top by an unequal edge at a height of at least 300 feet.
This verdure relieved the eye, so long wearied by the continued ranges of granite.
It was a perpendicular wall of very hard granite, which even the waves had not worn away.
Pencroft recognized the skua and other gulls among them, the voracious little sea-mew, which in great numbers nestled in the crevices of the granite.
The river became strong almost directly between the two walls of granite, which began to sink above the mouth; it then suddenly turned and disappeared beneath a wood of stunted trees half a mile off.
However, at the mouth of the watercourse and above the reach of the high tide, the convulsions of nature had formed, not a grotto, but a pile of enormous rocks, such as are often met with in granite countries and which bear the name of "Chimneys."
At the point where the sailor had left his raft of wood, it began to run between the two high granite walls; but if on the left bank the wall remained clear and abrupt, on the right bank, on the contrary, it sank gradually, the massive sides changed to isolated rocks, the rocks to stones, the stones to shingle running to the extremity of the point.
They then returned, following the southern crest of the granite platform, bordered by a long fringe of jagged rocks, of the most whimsical shapes.
"But what will you make your omelet in?" asked Herbert; "in your hat?""Well!" replied the sailor, "I am not quite conjuror enough for that; we must come down to eggs in the shell, my boy, and I will undertake to despatch the hardest!"Pencroft and Herbert attentively examined the cavities in the granite, and they really found eggs in some of the hollows.
It was composed of enormous blocks of granite, a few of which, insecurely balanced, seemed to tremble on their foundations, and Pencroft could feel rapid quiverings under his head as it rested on the rock.
Evidently the sea, passing over the islet, had been carried right up to the foot of the enormous curtain of granite.
To the islet upon which the castaways had first landed, the name of Safety Island; to the plateau which crowned the high granite precipice above the Chimneys, and from whence the gaze could embrace the whole of the vast bay, the name of Prospect Heights.
It was most probable that an overfall existed somewhere, and doubtless through a cleft in the granite.
From which it was proved that the granite cliff measured 333 feet in height.
A handle was fixed to the first lump, and was used as a hammer to forge the second on a granite anvil, and thus they obtained a coarse but useful metal.
A natural dwelling would spare us much work, and would be a surer retreat, for it would be as well defended against enemies from the interior as those from outside.""That is true, Cyrus," replied the reporter, "but we have already examined all that mass of granite, and there is not a hole, not a cranny!""No, not one!"
To attack this mass of granite, even by a mine, was Herculean work, and it was really vexing that nature could not help them at their need.
The nests of the rock pigeons which fluttered at its summit were only, in reality, holes bored at the very top, and on the irregular edge of the granite.
"There is no doubt this overflow exists," he repeated, "and since it is not visible it must go through the granite cliff at the west!""But what importance do you attach to knowing that, my dear Cyrus?" asked Gideon Spilett.
"There," said he, rising, "is the discharge of the water; there, doubtless, by a passage in the granite cliff, it joins the sea, through cavities which we can use to our profit.
"But it is a mass of granite!" observed Spilett.
"Well," replied Cyrus Harding, "I will blow up the granite, and the water escaping, will subside, so as to lay bare this opening--""And make a waterfall, by falling on to the beach," added the reporter.
And yet, how was this granite wall to be opened without powder, and with imperfect instruments?
According to him, a cavity, more or less considerable, must exist in the mass of granite which supported Prospect Heights, and he intended to penetrate into it.
To employ great means, open the granite, create a cascade, that suited the sailor.
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