| 单词 | vitrified |
| 例句 | But sometimes, he’s taken over by a dark mood, an unusually acerbic wit, strange and vitrified. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Five bus-loads of boys and girls, singing or in a silent embracement, rolled past them over the vitrified highway. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z And as anyone who made a wonky ceramic ashtray as a child can tell you, there’s a certain thrill to seeing malleable clay, formed by your own hands, become a vitrified, functional product. Why Handmade Ceramics Are White Hot 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z At the Blanton, Harrison contributes a “found” West African statue alongside a car headlight, both vitrified in resin, in a caustic conflation of industry and imperialism. Why Is a Day Job Seen as the Mark of an Artist’s Failure? 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Only one previous study successfully rewarmed and transplanted a vitrified organ in any animal, and the rabbit kidney in question had been vitrified for roughly 10 minutes—and it performed poorly after transplantation. After ‘Absurdly Long’ 100-Day Freeze, Rat Kidneys Were Successfully Transplanted 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z He got as far as implanting a previously vitrified organ into an animal. How to deep freeze an entire organ—and bring it back to life 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z Then, eggs might be kept at the center where they were vitrified or sent to another location for long-term storage. What to Know Before You Freeze Your Eggs 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z The sewers in Morris Park, built in 1916, are made of interlocking vitrified block, which is designed to be leakproof and was deemed highly modern when the Bronx borough president ordered them installed, Aggarwala said. NYC sinkholes are a growing problem thanks to climate change 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z Most of these pipes are made of vitrified clay and were installed around 1910. Opinion | Rock Creek may look inviting, but don’t go in the water 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z The flash of extreme heat was followed by a rapid drop in temperatures, which vitrified the brain material, the authors said. Mount Vesuvius blast turned ancient victim’s brain to glass 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Finding ways to warm vitrified tissue quickly and evenly has been the focus of Bischof’s lab. How to deep freeze an entire organ—and bring it back to life 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z "This is the first ever discovery of ancient human brain remains vitrified by heat." Vesuvius eruption 'turned man's brain to glass' 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z However, no vitrified human brain tissues were found among these victims, suggesting slightly different conditions to those at the Collegium Augustalium. Mount Vesuvius eruption 'turned victim's brain to glass' 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z It wasn't until years later, when the victim's skull was examined, that researchers discovered the brain remains were vitrified, rather than saponified. Pompeii shocker: Vitrified brains from volcano victim discovered 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Dubochet realized that if the water was frozen quickly enough--vitrified, like glass--ice crystals wouldn't form. A cold, clear view of life wins chemistry Nobel 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Han opened the lid in a billow of vapor and lifted out a tiny, rigid packet containing the vitrified organ. How to deep freeze an entire organ—and bring it back to life 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z The remains of an ancient vitrified fort in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, near the ruins of a medieval castle built in the 13th century. Want to Build a Strong Fortress? Set It On Fire 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z They were vitrified, meaning stone and wood in the defensive walls were burned at a high temperature for a long time to fuse the stone together. Ancient hillfort to be excavated in Lochaber - BBC News 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z In addition to the vitrified brain, a solidified spongy mass that entrapped the chest bones of the victim was discovered. Pompeii shocker: Vitrified brains from volcano victim discovered 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z According to Lockwood, her Spanish colleagues are increasingly using vitrified eggs from frozen egg banks for donor patients, rather than fresh, and increasingly they are finding the results are exactly the same. How Women Are 'Freezing' The Biological Clock Five days is far short of the virtually limitless storage time for a vitrified organ, but still useful, says Toner, who is working with Tessier. How to deep freeze an entire organ—and bring it back to life 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z It will store vitrified waste and high-level waste from the country's fuel reprocessing program, for a planned launch around 2025. How nations are tackling nuclear waste storage 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z The vitrified component meets standards for disposal and may even be suitable for use as a construction aggregate, according to Mr. Robau and other industry professionals. Plasma Gasification Raises Hopes of Clean Energy From Garbage 2012-09-11T16:52:11Z The drain, of iron or vitrified pipes tightly joined, is continued to the edge of the ground prepared for purification. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z The harder the brick the better it is—vitrified brick is the best. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z Some scientists raise the possibility of stockpiling vitrified human organs grown in genetically engineered pigs for future transplants. How to deep freeze an entire organ—and bring it back to life 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z The ivory figures, too, have been inlaid and filled up with vitrified material. British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. 2012-02-26T03:00:18.883Z R. The colours are vitrified and slightly in relief; green, blue and brown may be distinguished. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Table 13 shows that the cement pipe cost much less than the vitrified tile, or "fire-clay" pipe. ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. 2012-01-02T03:00:24.717Z At the level of the ground there should be a course of hollow vitrified brick to exclude dampness and to give ventilation. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z Yet the bricks from the blacksmith's forge, fresh and vitrified as if they had been in contact with the fire only yesterday, were at times dug up from among the rank herbage. The Adventures of John Jewitt Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island 2011-11-15T03:00:19.650Z Under this agency the particles enter into combination, and if the process is carried far enough, the ware may become partially vitrified and acquire a certain amount of transparency. British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. 2012-02-26T03:00:18.883Z That this is true of an old one where ages have hardened down and vitrified a long train of habits, is not so wonderful. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z Infiltration through concrete diminishes rapidly after the sewer is in use; it occurs in vitrified pipe, also, to some extent. ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. 2012-01-02T03:00:24.717Z It is incompletely vitrified, consisting of spongy globules. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z Here it has the form of a great wedge, the apex uppermost; and the sandstone, which it so rudely shouldered aside, is scorched and partially vitrified along the line of contact. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z The least will belong to ware pressed with stiff clay gently fired; the greatest, to that cast with liquid slip and brought to the vitrified state. British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. 2012-02-26T03:00:18.883Z Dropping into the hearth that already contains the liquid vitrified earths, it passes by its superior gravity to the bottom, and is protected by them from the blast. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z A stream of lava of this sort, being less compact, and continuing more earthy particles, would certainly be much sooner fit for vegetation, than one composed of the more perfect vitrified matter. Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos 2011-03-02T03:00:27.050Z This furnace is built of a white sandstone, which becomes vitrified on the surface, forming glass. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z There are only two colours which cannot yet be obtained; these are opaque vermilion and lemon yellow in a vitrified state. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z These are the hard materials to be vitrified by the fluxes, which are carbonate or oxide of lead, boracic acid or borax, potash or soda, carbonate of lime or barytes. British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. 2012-02-26T03:00:18.883Z But at the moment, there is no final resting place for these “vitrified” wastes. A Watchdog's Warning on Nuclear Waste 2010-07-12T14:36:00Z Sand is the crystallization of turbid rain-water; and is transparent, juiceless, giving sparks, durable, and capable of being vitrified. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Result, a yellow, hard, heavy, vitrified mass, resembling muriate of soda and lead. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z We held him steady, and he rolled his eyes from side to side, surveying the broken fragments of his vitrified substance with symptoms of horror. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 Both these a close inspection thoroughly justifies, since in all the history of the manufacture of vitrified substances I know nothing more curious and puzzling. An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. For whilst the densest of Metals, Gold, if foliated, is transparent, and all Metals become transparent if dissolved in Menstruums or vitrified, the Opacity of white Metals ariseth not from their Density alone. Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light Among the city’s manufactures are refined oil, Portland cement, vitrified brick and tile, glass, asphalt, ice, cigars, drilling machinery, and flour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" The masses are irregularly colored, agreeably to the vitrified materials, red, black or brown. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z The Chinese, accustomed from a very early period to fire their pottery to a high temperature, produced vitrified stonewares before any other nation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" Pumice and white lapilli 0 3 —— —— 10 3½ —— —— Many of the ashes in these beds are vitrified, and harsh to the touch. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology The oil first exploded, and the paint was vitrified. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 The upper stages were artificially vitrified, wood having been piled up against the surfaces of the bricks of which they were composed, and then set on fire. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments On either side a double range of massive porcelain pillars supported the roof, which covered this grand sanctuary of art like an immense vitrified jewel. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar If the body of a piece of pottery is not even vitrified, however hard it may be, it is terra-cotta or earthenware. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" There are seven miles of asphalt streets and several miles of vitrified brick. Atlanta A Twentieth-Century City We well remember his assertion, that the paint of the old masters invariably vitrified by fire. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 Only the stones of the terrace endure; nor can any ruin, cairn, or standing stone, or vitrified fort present a more stern appearance of antiquity. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) CHINA, the common name for ware made of porcelain, given because it came from China, where the first vitrified, translucent, white ware was produced. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" It is in a farming district and in the Kansas natural-gas and oil-field, and has large zinc smelters, an oil refinery, and various manufactures, including vitrified brick, flour, glass, cement and ploughs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" And I was now interested to find exactly the same phenomena among the vitrified rocks of the Coal Measures. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. Happily, this is an age of glazed-ware and vitrified goods of every description. The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction This chapel was, till lately, paved with highly-polished vitrified bricks, each about two inches square, diversified with very vivid colors, but of a description altogether unlike those in the Conqueror's palace. Architectural Antiquities of Normandy He paid no attention to the police, but at Mr. Gubb, who was tearing the wrapper from what proved to be but a common vitrified paving-brick, he looked long and hard. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective If you can afford to build a shop, make it of brick, with a floor of vitrified brick, or of tile which is not less than two inches thick, and is preferably eight inches square. The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair Such a pipe line is made of various materials; hollow wooden logs, vitrified tile, cast-iron pipe, wrought-iron pipe, and lead pipe having all been used. Rural Hygiene This lofty Pagoda, for instance, several stories high, is erected over some holy relic,—perhaps the vitrified remains of the founder, after cremation. Religion in Japan Again, the unbroken continuity of the vitrified line militates against the signal-system theory. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland The makers understood that their enamel colours when vitrified would penetrate deeper into and be more closely incorporated with the material upon which they were placed were the latter not so completely hardened. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Near them were also placed vases and small figures of the deceased, of wood or vitrified earthenware. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life An open ditch is, however, far better replaced by vitrified tile, six inches in diameter, which entirely prevents surface pollution, and which costs only about ten cents a running foot. Rural Hygiene In some places vitrified pipe is used for house drains, but in most cities this is strongly objected to; and in New York City no earthenware pipes are permitted within the house. The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) The art of making vitrified forts was the art of making ramparts of rock through a knowledge of the less obstinate earths and the more powerful fluxes. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland It may be fairly considered that originally it was used simply to enrich, by vitrified colour, articles of use and ornament. Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture They are generally of wood, or vitrified earthenware. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life The house-drain, or the pipe which carries the wastes from the house to the point of final disposal, is generally made of vitrified tile, and in ordinary practice is five inches inside diameter. Rural Hygiene The most common material of which sewers are manufactured is earthenware, "vitrified pipes." The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) He may be right, for sometimes during these long and hot and tiring days I feel as though my spirit had been vitrified and macadamized. The Prairie Mother It will be seen that the smoke from the boiler is carried under the tank, in this instance through 8 inch vitrified drain pipe. Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings The apartment was decorated with a highly colored view of Naples, some enormous shells, vitrified sponges, and all those foreign curiosities which their vicinity to the sea seemed naturally to bring to them. Jack 1877 It is to be hoped that the cheering Bombay Infantry drawn up on that vitrified surface, got a fair view of the Prince in return. The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V Materials.—The materials from which sewers are manufactured is earthenware "vitrified pipes." The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) It was, he said, one of those vitrified wildernesses of brick that have given the city the name of a place of homes; dreadful. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story In the center valley there were five thousand acres of slag and vitrified rock from some forgotten old blast that had melted the hills and destroyed their mantle, reducing all to a terrible flatness. Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas Don't call him a bonehead or say his work's punk, or that he's a robber insist; don't pelt him with castings or vitrified junk, or smite him with bludgeon or fist. Rippling Rhymes In the vitrified forts of a few parts of Europe, we find data that the Humes and Gibbons have disregarded. The Book of the Damned The following materials are used: cement, vitrified pipe, lead; cast, wrought, and galvanized iron; brass, steel, nickel, sheet metal, etc. The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Finding that, as he had expected, it was an intensely hard miniature mountain of vitrified scoria, and tolerably easy of ascent, he began to climb. Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track Many have imagined that colours vitrified by intense heat are consequently durable when levigated for painting in oil or water. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists It was surprising, how much would burn, in this city of concrete and vitrified stone. Space Viking But upon hills, all over the rest of the world, are remains of forts that are not vitrified. The Book of the Damned It had been vitrified solid; the scanners reported that it was plugged for ten feet. The Cosmic Computer They are used in engineering work, and where great compressional resistance is needed, as they are vitrified throughout, hard, heavy, impervious and very durable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" It was also employed in enamel painting as it vitrified without change. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists These vitrified pipes may be perforated in the manner described for the common tile. Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health The vitrified forts surrounding England, but not in England. The Book of the Damned When they had battered a hole in the vitrified rock underneath, guards brought up General Shanlee. The Cosmic Computer The symbol was the same as that of the seven stages of Borsippa, the Pyramid of vitrified brick, near Babylon, built of seven stages, and each of a different color. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry It was remarked, with respect to vitrified pigments, that colour depends on cohesion. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists Other walls stood around, vitrified by fire—the remnants of an older castle still, about which Jamblichus might have spied the lingering phantoms of many a terrible deed. Alec Forbes of Howglen The stones of these forts exist to this day, vitrified, or melted and turned to glass. The Book of the Damned The lifter, and the floor under it, rose, with a thick mass of vitrified rock underneath. The Cosmic Computer The sand on which we walk is evident proof that the earth has been vitrified, and that our globe is really only a glass ball, just as are our ideas. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary In vitrified and crystallised compounds, colour depends on cohesion: sufficiently separate the particles, and the colour more or less disappears. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists I have seen the day—but that is a “tale of other years.”—In my conscience I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham So archaeologists, in their medieval dread of excommunication, have tried to explain vitrified forts in terms of terrestrial experience. The Book of the Damned There were no sewers in Seventh Avenue within the Terminal area, except small vitrified pipes, each less than 200 ft. in length. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157 The pavement of the Sacrarium is a mosaic of many coloured, vitrified tiles; it is almost unique in the county and is undoubtedly of great age. Hertfordshire By employing enamel powders, this process gives a new method of producing vitrified images. Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 Ready-made tanks are to be had of steel, concrete, or vitrified tile. If You're Going to Live in the Country But some of the vitrified forts are not upon tops of hills: some are very inconspicuous: their walls too are vitrified in streaks. The Book of the Damned These conductors are installed in vitrified clay ducts. The New York Subway Its Construction and Equipment This is the site of one of the celebrated vitrified forts, concerning the creation of which there has been so much learned discussion. My Life as an Author These corrugated tubes enclosed in cheap glass, and surrounded with oil, were laid in properly prepared conduits of vitrified fire-clay sewer pipes. The Harris-Ingram Experiment Lead oxide melted or incompletely vitrified is still in common use in the manufacture of inferior earthenware, and sometimes leads to serious results. Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 The clay pipes which are put on the nozzles of their bellows and inserted into the furnace are met with everywhere—often vitrified. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 And that is this, that the hardness of it arises from a greater proportion of a vitrified Substance interspersed through the pores of the Steel. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Wandering alone, we were quite surprised to find great mounds of brick, and pottery, and vitrified stones. The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne Suddenly, light grew about me, and a beautiful rose of fire appeared on the wall of the passage in the midst of what seemed a vitrified scoop in the rock. At a Winter's Fire The finished products were as follows: Open-hearth steel rails, bar and angle iron, car wheels, bar steel, steel plate, sewer pipe, and vitrified brick. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission In many places, quartz in almost a crystallised state was sprinkled in grains through the sand stone, and in others, the sand stone itself was partly vitrified. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 The rocks and stones here appeared as if glazed, and abounded in shells and other marine petrifactions, which on being broken had a vitrified appearance. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa In some places I noticed it had the same glazed and vitrified appearance, as before remarked by me at King's Sound, on the North-West coast. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. Smith patented a method of preserving timber, by incasing it in vitrified earthenware pipes, and filling the space between the timber and the pipe with a grouting of hydraulic cement. Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 To return to the bricks in the London market: we have firebricks made of fireclay, and almost vitrified and capable of standing intense heat. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 I chose a flannel with broad green and violet stripes, and very large buttons of vitrified brick which I hoped might break the mangle. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 14, 1917 Leibnitz and Buffon believed the earth to have been liquefied by fire; in fact, that it is an extinguished sun or vitrified globe, whose surface has been operated upon by a deluge. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 354, January 31, 1829 The internal surface is completely vitrified, glossy, and smooth. The Voyage of the Beagle He found that this clay, when submitted to a high temperature, became vitrified and retained its shape; and that its texture resembled that of porcelain, excepting in colour and opacity. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance In my conscience I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified. The Letters of Robert Burns The sparks produced by the collision of steel with flint appear to be globular particles of iron, which have been fused, and imperfectly scorified or vitrified. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation The fire must have been very intense; for I observed that the walls of many of the huts were slightly vitrified, and appeared at a distance as if covered with a red varnish. Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa Like a dome of vitrified glass, it shut down on the illimitable, tawdry sweep of defaced earth. The Web of Life Here vast and broken ledges ran along its flanks--red, yellow, black, all seared and burned and vitrified as by the fire of Hell; there huge masses, up-piled, seemed about to fall into the abyss. Darkness and Dawn It is simply clay and sand baked, and often almost vitrified into porcelain-jasper. At Last We ascended Ben Nevis, on which there was a great deal of snow, and visited the vitrified fort in Glen Nevis. Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy Dawn broke upon her there, her hat still cockily awry, tears dried in a vitrified gleaming down her cheeks. Gaslight Sonatas Terraces, cliffs, lakes, ridges, rivers, mountain sides, whirlpools, chasms of lava surrounded us, solid, black, and shining, as if vitrified, or an ashen grey, stained yellow with sulphur here and there, or white with alum. The Hawaiian Archipelago It appears to me at present extremely probable, that obsidians, and porphyries with bases of obsidian, are vitrified masses, the cooling of which has been too rapid to change them into lithoid lava. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Dirt was a stranger there; germs found life within its portals a hazardous business—what with the vitrified walls, the glass shelves, and enameled plumbing. The Auction Block Not a vestige of vegetation relieved the aridity of their vitrified sides, while the verdant carpet at their feet only made the fire-moulded circle seem more weird and impassable. Letters from High Latitudes As far as we could see stretched a sea of slag—coal black, vitrified and dead. The Metal Monster We refer to the vitrified forts, which are strange structures in which stones, such as granite and gneiss, quartzite and basalt, have been subjected to a heat so intense as to produce vitrification. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples We are surprised to see an Atlantic nation substituting, like the natives of America, vitrified lava for iron. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The sides of the mound are strewn with cyclopean blocks of vitrified granite, which evidently originally formed part of the fortifications. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples There is nothing about this at all resembling the melted granite of the vitrified forts. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples The whole mass is completely vitrified, and regular geodes or nodules lined with crystals and draped with pendent drops of melted rock have been produced. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples If so, we shall have. to admit that vitrified forts date from the earliest centuries of the Christian era, and are not prehistoric at all. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples In the wall itself, separated from the facings by beds of peat mould, are great blocks of vitrified granite. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples These few examples will be enough to give some idea of the strange vitrified forts. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples The conglomerate welding there together is a vitrified scoria full of very small bubbles made by the escape of gas which had not had sufficient strength to get out. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples The process employed in cementing the materials of the vitrified forts was then perfectly unique. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples It is in Scotland, however, that are situated the most remarkable vitrified forts. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples |
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