| 单词 | petrifaction |
| 例句 | Most were philosophers, and inquired into the workings of time and memory, natural history, the properties of light, heat, and petrifaction. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The petrifaction of religious language has happened over and over – Catholic Latin, Orthodox Slavonic. King James Bible: 'Twas a work most modern 2011-03-01T13:05:13Z For another video, Weitz dipped her own hand in porcelain slip and let it dry, creating a crackling petrifaction effect on her skin; her dusty, chalky-looking body then appeared a decaying sculpture itself. Julie Weitz's 'Touch Museum' tweaks time and space 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z On Liberalism and Conservatism: Both “can be equally repellent: if the former can mean chaos, the latter can mean petrifaction.” Review | T.S. Eliot may have been flawed, but a new book reminds of his greatness on the page 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z He observed also other striking similarities between petrifactions and living organisms. July 18, 1635: Robert Hooke - The Last Virtuoso of Silly Science 2013-07-18T21:15:04.867Z The odor of sanctity and the form of sound words are no nearer the living spirit than are those petrifactions which present an outline of men, but never again pulsate with life. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z Guizot, it will be remembered, has described her as the stiffest of the stiff, freezing into petrifaction a whole silent circle by her invincible coldness and formality. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z At first he thought the queer-looking things he saw must be odd-shaped pieces of stone, or petrifactions, such as you see in old-fashioned rockeries in gardens sometimes. Nurse Heatherdale's Story 2012-03-06T03:00:21.190Z These are petrifactions of sea animals, which have remained since the time of the flood. Pine Needles 2012-02-20T03:00:19.367Z There are many instances of ores that have been deposited, molecule by molecule, replacing equal volumes of the previous rock, much upon the order of the petrifaction of wood. The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines 2012-02-18T03:00:17.387Z As I have often said, the man who believes in eternal torment, in the justice of endless pain, is suffering from at least two diseases—petrifaction of the heart and putrefaction of the brain. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z We want stability, we want political petrifaction, and we therefore demand that these meetings shall be dismissed, that these processions shall halt, that these flags shall be furled. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z But the pious petrifactions, the fossils of faith, still clung to their book and creed. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z In almost all parts of the island petrifactions are to be met with. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z Calcareous petrifactions, or rather impressions, are very numerous. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z The signs of life that succeeded the long petrifaction of the eighteenth century drama and the beginning of the revolutionary epoch thus resulted only in theatrical novelties and in no serious dramatic movement. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z The mineralogical, petrographical, and pal�ontological collections consist of several thousand specimens of mineralogy and petrifactions, part collected by the geologist himself, part presented by scientific Institutes, or private donors, or purchased. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z Some people expect to make the world good by destroying desire—by a kind of pious petrifaction, feeling that if you do not want anything, you will not want anything bad. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z The latter gentleman sought us out at our hotel, and, after a hearty welcome, remarked that he possessed, in his collection, several highly interesting petrifactions from Beaufort, about 400 miles north-west of Worcester. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z According to the Brooklyn Calvinist, God visits such supplicants with paralysis and petrifaction. Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? 2011-12-24T03:07:56.830Z First of all, he ardently desires to save them from the petrifaction which awaits all souls made frigid by a false philosophy. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Besides complete mineralization, or petrifaction, there are numerous cases of incomplete or semi-fossilization, where modern objects, still retaining their phosphate of lime and some animal matter even, are found buried in rock. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z His feelings have gone through a process of petrifaction which will prevent them from ever warring against his interest; but Ichabod! all glory of principle, and much elevation of character are gone! Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z He dreads petrifaction, crystallisation, the development of music into the architectural. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z One of the petrifactions, still preserved at Cambridge, with Dr. Woodward's fossils, is a plain and bold representation of a flat-fish, about twelve inches long. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z They extend back beyond the Carboniferous, where they occur as hyphae, &c., preserved in the fossil woods, but the best specimens are probably those in amber and in siliceous petrifactions of more recent origin. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z The stones with a natural resemblance to animals are most valued when they are old and long in use, and the orthodox or priestly theory is that they are petrifactions of this or that beast. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Where forms, such as the Demon-World adores, Laborious water carves; whence echo slips Wild-tongued o'er pools where petrifaction strips Her breasts of crystal from which crystal pours.— Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z I am ungenerous, unloving,—a very petrifaction of anger and dissatisfaction. A Noble Name or D?nninghausen 2011-07-04T02:00:22.783Z He was speaking of exhumations a long time after death, of mummies and petrifactions and other curious transformations of the human body. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z Miss Diana Trevlyn heard it, and came forth, and they stood like two living petrifactions, gazing at the apparition. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Even the earth gave up its treasure, and they found the first of the famous petrifactions of the trans-Missouri region in the back-bone of a fish forty-five feet long, in a perfect state. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z Meantime I amused myself in examining various petrifactions, zoophytes, and submarine plants of the Fucus tribe, which occupied every part of the coast. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland 2011-05-10T02:01:00.460Z There he stood and gazed on the blue air free, And the sun with its sweet attraction, Then heavily sighed--it blew cool from the sea-- And he sank in petrifaction. Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems 2011-04-14T02:01:01.217Z The amount of petrifaction and the state of preservation of the bones are quite fallacious nor can much reliance be placed upon the anatomical character of the remains. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Wonderful petrifactions are found along its margins, referable to some remote geological era, and no doubt these fossil woods gave rise to the fishermen’s superstition. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z A chain of stuffed birds is hung up for petrifaction, taking from twelve to fifteen months to turn into stone: bird's-nests take twelve months. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z The advocates of the diluvial origin of petrifactions soon found themselves hard pressed with the question, how these relics could be scattered through strata many thousand feet thick, by one transient flood. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z So perfect is the petrifaction in many cases, that the most minute structures have been entirely preserved—the original matter having been replaced atom by atom. Geology 2011-02-20T03:00:12.660Z The sand-stone alluded to above, is in the intermediate state between clay and stone, in which the process of petrifaction is still in progress. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z Almost everywhere throughout the whole length and breadth of the plains are found, in greater or less profusion, animal remains, fossils, shells, and petrifactions. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z Impressed with the form of some natural object, as,— Zoolithus, the petrifaction of an animal of the class Mammalia. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History But the moment we come to examine the details respecting marine petrifactions, we see that nothing can be more absurd than to suppose them the result of a transient deluge. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z Anthro�polite, a petrifaction of the human body or skeleton, or of parts of the body, by the encrusting action of calcareous waters, and hence hardly to be considered fossil or sub-fossil. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli In the north-east portion of the state, this species of stone, whose basis is clay, is found in a more matured state of petrifaction. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z By the ancients and the earlier naturalists of the Christian era they were regarded either as petrifactions or as plants, and many supposed that they occupied a position midway between minerals and plants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" It is unnecessary to follow our author, while he states the principles of his sexual system of minerals, through the forms and modifications of crystals, metals, rocks, and petrifactions. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Seldom do the months pass without bringing a periodical containing well-written treatises, in which the mountain sprite is entirely put out of the question, fiery meteors are explained, and thunderbolts are considered as petrifactions. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. Professor Göppert, of Breslau, has instituted a series of curious experiments, in which he has succeeded in producing some very remarkable imitations of fossil petrifactions. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology These resemble in properties and colour, the clay so abundant in this region; a great proportion of the gravel is composed of a petrifaction of clay and minute shells, of the mollusca tribe. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z With the petrifaction of its soil it had withered away. The Women of Tomorrow Sometimes, alas! the hardening process seems to have struck in, and you find nothing but petrifaction all the way through. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 Here they came, and here they often remained until their friends bore them away again, thoroughly safeguarded to the point of petrifaction. Where the Pavement Ends Grizel still saw in remembrance the petrifaction on the large kind face looking down into her own, the scarlet mounting swiftly into Teresa’s cheeks. Lady Cassandra There are some extraordinary petrifactions in the north part of this state, among which is the fallen trunk of a tree twenty feet in length, converted into solid rock. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z Well, first we have to practice the magical performance we have just watched Eos go through, so that if we ever need it we too can release a figure from that stony curse of petrifaction. Daughter of the Night It is by no means the petrifaction of the Mosaic law and the prophetic teachings, as we are so often told, but a continuous process of unfolding and regeneration of its great religious truth. Jewish Theology At last it was proposed that the matter should be referred to a commission of five well-known professors, to whom the petrifaction should be submitted, and who should decide the question in dispute. Black Diamonds For a moment Lawrence stood silent and cold in a petrifaction of anger. The Portal of Dreams "The petrifaction of the last-named is quite an old story," he remarked, as he passed out of the tent. Banked Fires It is as a means of melting down this museum of premature petrifactions into living and impressionable soul that we insist on their utility. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers At the same time it gave rise also to ritualistic piety, which, while tenaciously clinging to the traditional practice of the law, fostered hair-splitting casuistry and caused the petrifaction of religion in the codified Halakah. Jewish Theology "Ah, I am making a collection of petrifactions." Black Diamonds Where forms, such as the Demon-World adores, Laborious water carves; whence echo ships Wild-tongued o'er pools where petrifaction strips Her breasts of crystal from which crystal pours.— Weeds by the Wall Verses Here they are, with all the green juvenility of the home-sickness still about them—a true petrifaction of an extinct feeling:— TO THE CONON. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. Within, on a knoll of sward, was the house of the proprietor, and another smaller house hard by to serve as a museum, where photographs and petrifactions were retailed. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) The whole of the petrifactions accurately known do not probably amount to a hundredth part of those which, by more elaborate explorations, are yet to be discovered. Was Man Created? This is a well-known trick, and it is only men like Ivan, whose minds are occupied with petrifactions and the stars, who are in ignorance that such things are done. Black Diamonds Most of them are what naturalists call petrifactions, and by far the most common are Ammonites, half imbedded in a ball of stone, exactly of the same nature with the petrified animal. An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha Only one adverse impression is cast: that of petrifaction. The Cathedrals of Northern France What did I know about petrifactions—following the sea? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) One fat arm would be slowly raised till it covered the baby's eyes, and in this position she would sit like a small petrifaction, till the horror had withdrawn. Lotus Buds Faith understood the word well enough, and it seemed to turn her into a pretty petrifaction—with internal life at work indeed, as the rising and falling colours witnessed. Say and Seal, Volume II This cave is of great extent, and is divided into many large, and singularly-shaped apartments, covered with stalactites, or petrifactions, at the top and sides. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe Or are not many of these shells mere lake or river petrifactions?—one never sees among them "true marine substances"!! The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Organized fossil remains belong to three different classes: the remains that have preserved their natural state, at least in part; petrifactions; and impressions. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 But, indeed, that Sunday evening reading was the one thing that saved my life from growing, or settling, into a petrifaction. Daisy Without doubt he was suffering from some process of moral petrifaction. The Rough Road This rock seems to have been formed by the petrifaction of the water; and all the other springs are surrounded by similar petrifactions. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe The chemistry of the process of petrifaction or silicification," writes Doctor George P. Merrill, Curator of Geology in the National Museum, "is not quite clear. The Book of the National Parks The father stood like "Wo's bleak, voiceless petrifaction," moving neither limb nor countenance; his eye was fixed steadfastly on the ground, and a deadly paleness was over his face. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 It lies in a certain deliberate "petrifaction" of the human soul in us; a certain glacial detachment from all interests save one; a certain frigid insanity of preoccupation with our own emotion. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions There seems to be a life and infinity in the incomplete, which the determinate excludes by its own completeness and petrifaction. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory Along this road there are extensive tracts of ground covered with calcareous petrifactions. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests To Henderson's petrifaction, the door of the brougham was hastily opened and then slammed to, leaving Miss Levering in the road, saying to him over her shoulder— 'Wait just round the corner, unless I call.' The Convert "That's true enough," replied the Indian, who had often wondered at the petrifactions with which the banks of the White River abound. Adventures of a Young Naturalist Alpenstocks of honour, inlaid with ivory, stacked like billiard cues, ornamented the corners, and a glass-case displayed curiosities, crystals, silex, petrifactions, two porcupines and a salamander, collected on the mountains. Tartarin On The Alps Who can prove with any certainty that these petrifactions are in truth the fossilised remains of extinct organisms? Freedom in Science and Teaching. from the German of Ernst Haeckel Nothing but tame silence and spiritual petrifaction could have made his peace at the Stuart Court. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography She is not quite so far gone in petrifaction as Aunt, although she gets a little stonier every year. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 O mercy! have they drawn poor little dear Sir Lucius into the scrape?—Why how you stand, girl! you have no more feeling than one of the Derbyshire petrifactions! The Rivals A Comedy In truth, Death's worst inaction Must be less tedious to endure Than nameless petrifaction; Far better, in some nook unknown, To sleep for once—and soundly, Than still survive in wistful stone, Forgotten more profoundly! Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II The flames shot upward, setting the shadows fantastically leaping up the precipitous bluffs and among the weird petrifactions of a devil's nightmare that rimmed the circle of flaring light. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands So perfect are these petrifactions that the annual rings can be easily counted and even the grain of the wood is plainly visible. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Untaught by the presence and inspiration of woman, man becomes a cold, dry petrifaction, constantly obeying the centripetal force of his being, and adoring self. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy It stood half thrown back on its haunches, its ears flattened, its eyes glaring in a petrifaction of amazement. Hooking Watermelons 1898 One reflection, however, comforted me, namely, that this petrifaction by freezing had kept the victuals sweet. The Frozen Pirate M. Marcel de Serres shews, that marine petrifactions are not necessarily of ancient date, for they are formed at the present day in existing seas; that shells are now being petrified in the Mediterranean. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 452 Volume 18, New Series, August 28, 1852 Who that has once studied petrifactions, does not know the mass of forms of the terebratul�, the belemnites, and the ammonites, in the Jura formation? The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality The streams abound in petrifactions of vegetation, which would show that the water cannot be very wholesome for drinking. Byeways in Palestine The complementary belief in the possibility of the petrifaction of men and animals has a similarly extensive geographical distribution. The Evolution of the Dragon I stood there like a petrifaction—looking after him, vacant and motionless. Peter Schlemihl These petrifactions are not, as some suppose, to be regarded as fossils, the latter designation belonging only to 'those organic remains which are found in geological deposits.' Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 452 Volume 18, New Series, August 28, 1852 If Sally had been a few years older she would have bounded after him like a goat, but she had only reached that period of life which rendered petrifaction possible. The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers “Here is another specimen of these petrifactions—look!” The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole Ian Macdonald returned to the room above with the quiet air of a thoughtful schoolmaster and the callous solidity of a human petrifaction. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood One of the young ladies guessed it to be the petrifaction of an antediluvian mussel. Gryll Grange Come along: it is always a soft sandy or rippled path formed of petrifactions like that you saw just now.” First in the Field A Story of New South Wales Hot springs were plentiful, and formed basins surrounded by the deposit from the water, a petrifaction of the most delicate tints, while the water was of the most exquisite blue. Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle And when petrifaction is complete, the cracking and the crumbling starts, and there's no way of stopping it. Ministry of Disturbance As for Rollin, he became, and remained for some time, a petrifaction of amazement. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood Lord Curryfin said petrifactions were often siliceous, but never pure silex; which this purported to be. Gryll Grange With a vacant air he regarded the Pandemonium, and a petrifaction of his inner being seemed to take place. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story His friends pleased him by sending pieces of spar from the mines of Cornwall and Derbyshire, petrifactions, marble, coral, crystals, and humming-birds' nests. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series The Empire stopped growing, and when things stop growing, they start dying, the death of petrifaction. Ministry of Disturbance We believe that, in all the course of ecclesiastical history on the Continent, no period of equal intelligence is marked by the same degree of religious coldness and petrifaction. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology Perhaps the skull may be from an older burial somewhere, the petrifaction having taken place before it was buried here. Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 That strange petrifaction had begun in them which overtakes all very old monks and nuns who have never had very active minds. The White Sister But indeed, that Sunday evening reading was the one thing that saved my life from growing, or settling, into a petrifaction. Daisy Scattered over the surface of the sand are innumerable pebbles of all sizes and colours—onyx, cornelian, agate, and many more, as well as sea fossils and other petrifactions which boys would love to collect. Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt It was explained to me by several Man�bos that pointing at the dwelling place of these spirits might result in petrifaction of the arm. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir The shores of the river are plentifully strewed with crystalizations and petrifactions. Great Indian Chief of the West Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk If this fact were more generally accepted and enforced it could soon no longer be said that few persons reach maturity without the petrifaction of some faculty of mind and heart. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music But while the Greek petrifaction is the result of too direct a gaze upon the horrible, the Hebrew is the result of too loving and desirous a gaze upon the coveted beauty of the world. Among Famous Books When she saw him, in fatalistic reverie, going about ten years hence attached to the body of this petrifaction, she was almost satisfied to abandon the pair, to let them take their wretched chance. Hilda A Story of Calcutta This would be a real death and petrifaction of consciousness, frozen into contemplation of a monotonous infinite void. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Thus, religion, to Tolstoy, is not dogma, not petrifaction, it makes indeed dogma impossible. Ancient Art and Ritual This curious substance appears to be a petrifaction formed by natural springs, which deposit carbonate of lime in large quantities. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. These loaves, in the course of time, underwent the process of petrifaction, but could not, nevertheless, be looked upon as wholly lost to the country. Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One They are not a chain, as most Eastern people imagine them, but a giant ocean caught by petrifaction at the moment of maddest tempest. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Current literature! are not the words a mockery? could they ever have applied to those printed petrifactions? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 The same truth holds in Art, also, and drives it to forsake these beautiful petrifactions and seek an expression less bound to the material. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 A momentary petrifaction, and terror had lent wings to her feet. The Ragged Edge It is a region of rocks, petrifactions, and other pre-Adamite peculiarities. Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature At certain periods of the year Prince Esterhazy and his court adjourned to Esterhaz, and at certain periods they came back to Eisenstadt: thus they were saved by due variety from utter petrifaction. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians Here are the wells which produce the petrifactions; any substance placed in them being, in the course of a few months, covered with stone. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828 The contrast between it and Islam is that of movement with fixedness, of participation with sterility, of development with barrenness, of life with petrifaction. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology The Cardinal, the Abate, they too are petrifactions in their way! A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) But in that second she saw that his petrifaction was already scattering, and his face wore the strangest look, like a kind of glory.... V. V.'s Eyes There are granites and porphyries, marbles and petrifactions of the most exquisite grain or tints. A Trip to Venus In the interior you are surrounded by brilliant crystallizations, various kinds of metallic ores, spars, &c., with petrifactions hanging from the roof, pendent as icicles. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828 The Arabs then; and the Chinese at the present day, use these petrifactions when powdered as a specific for diseases of the eye. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 Power, the hard man knit for action Reads each nation on the brow; Cripple, fool, and petrifaction Fall to him—are falling now. Cambridge Essays on Education The order was in many respects the most successful attempt at reform, but as has been said, "the whole order, and each individual member, is like a petrifaction from the Middle Ages." A Short History of Monks and Monasteries To such the living truth of the gospel becomes a petrifaction, and a savor of death unto death. Sermons to the Natural Man Such various inconsistent opinions, respecting petrifaction or mineral concretion, as I have now exposed, opinions that are not founded on any sound physical principle, authorise me to conclude that they are all erroneous. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) Verbal statements which are petrifactions of wisdom can neither stimulate nor nourish; but verbal statements which are vital concentrations of wisdom do both. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 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 It is almost entirely covered with a white spar, intermixed with curious and unique specimens of polished pebbles and petrifactions. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 483, April 2, 1831 The two girls were like petrifactions: they were in the attitude of stalactites. The Man Who Laughs We have now, by the favour of this gentleman, obtained specimens of the petrifactions of Giezer; and, what is still more interesting, we have procured some of the water of those petrifying boiling springs. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) The petrified date-wood lies about eight miles distant from Cairo; I rode out there, but did not find much to see, excepting here and there some fragments of stems and a few petrifactions lying about. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy The temple at Karnak and the tabernacle at Salt Lake City are petrifactions of faith. Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" When at last they went to him they found him convulsed and rigid, like a petrifaction of grief; although he walked about, heard and saw, and covered his wounded and dying father with kisses. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 In his impassibility, which was perhaps only on the surface, were imprinted two petrifactions—the petrifaction of the heart proper to the hangman, and the petrifaction of the mind proper to the mandarin. The Man Who Laughs It is sufficient here to observe, that our author finds occasion to generalise the formation of those petrifactions with the flintifications in calcareous and gypseous bodies. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) They were already petrifactions when the human race was born. Overland Along the shelves, behind them and round about, stand books, those petrifactions of the mind, which might again be vivified by spirit. Pictures of Sweden The Westminster Confession of Faith may be taken as the dogmatic petrifaction of the notion which lies, more or less undeveloped and still living, in the other Protestant Confessions. The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible The 'prodigious' caverns and strange petrifactions shocked them; 'nothing can be more terrible or shocking to Nature.' In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays To this subject of the petrifactions of Giezier, I may now add the information which we have received in consequence of a new voyage from this country to Iceland. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) It is in this way that petrifaction succeeds progress. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice Yet he found his heart less hard than the petrifaction it had undergone, the constant droppings of wrong and hardship for twenty years, should have rendered it. Bred in the Bone Still, if we limit ourselves to a comparison of the same carbonized wood, preserved on the one hand by petrifaction, and on the other hand non-mineralized, we find a very perceptible diminution in bulk. Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 Ernest brought us natural curiosities, which amused us much,--stones, crystals, petrifactions, insects, butterflies of rare beauty, and flowers, whose colours and fragrance no one in Europe can form an idea of. The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island But how is the general petrifaction or consolidation of strata, below the surface of the sea, to be explained by the general dissolution of that consolidating substance in the earth above that level? Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) But this main fact makes intelligible all the phenomena of petrifaction and retrogression. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice Bullion at the same time turned the eyes that might have been only glittering petrifactions, and pointed the long eyebrow at him inquiringly. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Wars are terrible, but necessary, for they save the State from social petrifaction and stagnation. Germany and the Next War As regarded the uses of life, it still slept in petrifactions of Pentelic marble. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Consequently, without knowing the principle upon which it proceeds, we here perceive a natural operation by which siliceous petrifaction may be performed. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) Without the first there would have been the petrifaction and slow decay of the Eastern Empire, where church and state were closely married and loss of external power brought no relief of internal tyranny. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice We have here found our first specimens of petrifactions and obsidian, or volcanic glass. The Discovery of Yellowstone Park He presented me a petrifaction picked up on Drummond Island, and looked at my cabinet with interest. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers And when those petrifactions were repeated in modern quarries, it was merely the shell they gave; the spirit within had not yet broken through. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 The ideas of naturalists with regard to petrifaction are so vague and indistinct, that no proper answer can be given to them. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) Yet all three animals were keyed to a tenseness of living that was almost painful, and scarcely ever would it come to them to be more alive than they were then in their seeming petrifaction. White Fang At the base of the fall we found a large petrifaction of wood imbedded in the debris of the falling cement and slate rock. The Discovery of Yellowstone Park Among them were specimens of copper pyrites in quartz, sulphate of strontian, foliated gypsum, and numerous calcareous petrifactions. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Here, too, the bride's aunt and next relation; a widowed female of a Medusa sort, in a stoney cap, glaring petrifaction at her fellow-creatures. Our Mutual Friend This is a question that does not seem to have entered into the heads of our naturalists who attempt to explain petrifaction or mineral concretion from aqueous solutions. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) Salmon, lobster-sauce, giblet-soup, and the usual accompaniments were discovered: potatoes like petrifactions, and bits of toasted bread, the shape and size of blank dice. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people There is petrifaction of the understanding; and also of the sense of shame. The Golden Sayings of Epictetus Akin to the foregoing condition is what is known as petrifaction or ossification of portions of the living human body other than the articulations. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine The trees, burdened with the last infinitesimal pennyweight of snow their branches could hold, stood in absolute petrifaction. Burning Daylight With the petrifaction of its soil, it had withered away. Stories from Everybody's Magazine What did I know about petrifactions - following the sea? The Silverado Squatters At present, every Prison is more or less a Training School for Crime, an introduction to the society of criminals, the petrifaction of any lingering human feeling and a very Bastille of Despair. In Darkest England and the Way Out It is as a means of melting down this museum of premature petrifactions into living and impressionable soul that we insist on their utility. Lay Morals Before they had time to get decomposed from their state of petrifaction I had remounted my dromedary, and was darting away towards the east. Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East These consisted chiefly of quartz, felspar, and a silicious petrifaction of woody appearance. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Within, on a knoll of sward, was the house of the proprietor, and another smaller house hard by to serve as a museum, where photographs and petrifactions were retailed. The Silverado Squatters And there was a silence, a period of petrifaction, that might have lasted for one minute or ten: Bullard could not have gauged it. Till the Clock Stops "Why, my dear Charles!" said she, "do you recollect, on this very road, as we were returning from Glistonbury Castle, this time two years, you called Lady Sarah a petrifaction?" Tales and Novels — Volume 05 A number of small round balls, petrifactions of a dead white, lie about here, forming little hollows in the ground. Life in Mexico On the way back to Moscow he relapsed again into a state of petrifaction. Dream Tales and Prose Poems Midway from Ainnete I found a small petrified shell, and on breaking a stone which I picked up on the summit, I discovered another similar petrifaction within it. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land As might be expected, too, it is found to deposit its salts in copious incrustations, and to prove a ready agent in all processes of petrifaction. Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Well, my dear, I must have time to analyze her more carefully, and I suppose I shall discover, as you have done, that she is not a petrifaction. Tales and Novels — Volume 05 Advise them to be burnt at the stake at once, rather than submit to this slow process of petrifaction. Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. They accentuated the lifelessness, the petrifaction, the intense and sinister quiet of the prostrate city. The Sisters-In-Law These petrifactions are generally found in low grounds, but I saw several also on the top of the low hills of gravel and sand over which the road lies. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land Any man that believes in eternal hell is afflicted with at least two diseases—petrifaction of the heart and petrifaction of the brain. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. For when her heart had begun to grow cold in the process of petrifaction, there had awakened a new faculty,—her mind. Together I know cases of petrifaction like that—and God preserve anyone that I love from it! Three Dramas Wood: varied colours of. petrifactions of. of fruits. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 I have crossed this desert repeatedly in other directions, and never saw any of the petrifactions except in this part of it. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land Maisie received in petrifaction the full force of her mother's huge painted eyes—they were like Japanese lanterns swung under festal arches. What Maisie Knew In spite of his hardened convictions about life, the little rule of thumb by which he lived, he knew something of men and women; and he suspected that process of petrifaction in his daughter's heart. Together From day to day he noted the change, like that of a gradual petrifaction, which went on in her face. Dr. Heidenhoff's Process The limestone of the Penas is compact, bluish grey and almost destitute of petrifactions. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Analogous circumstances may have caused, in the ancient catastrophes of our planet, that singular mixture of pelagian and fluviatile bones and petrifactions, which is observed in some rocks of recent formation. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 I have myself seen a small basket filled with plovers' eggs become in eight days a perfect petrifaction. After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 What is determinable and more to our purpose is the subsequent process of dissolution, or petrifaction. Together It is said of him that he aspires but to descend, but who would condemn him for spurning the petrifactions of the Faubourg Saint-Germain? Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) A bluish-grey compact limestone, almost destitute of petrifactions, and frequently intersected by small veins of carburetted lime, forms mountains with very abrupt ridges. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 I saw there one small formation of sandstone or conglomerate; but no secondary limestone, and no trace of petrifactions. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 The sandy banks, at first flat, became gradually steeper, and the rock soon showed itself close at hand, with firm banks of sandy clay containing occasional traces of indistinguishable petrifactions. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes With the look that Margaret gave her husband, he might have seen that the process of petrifaction had set in, had gone far, indeed. Together Perhaps the process might be more aptly called one of petrifaction. Mercy Philbrick's Choice She stood fixed as if turned to stone, in an attitude which for one fleeting instant recalled that of the sculptured figures undergoing sudden petrifaction at the sight of the Gorgon's head. Across the Zodiac I think that the English Church is the merest petrifaction now. Memories of Hawthorne In the clay banks are well-preserved petrifactions, so similar in color, habitat, and aspect to many of those in the German tertiary formations that they might be taken for them. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes "Custom is a petrifaction," he asserted; "nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century." Mark Twain Just now this valley is the scene of an excitement, in the finding of a supposed petrifaction of a human being—a giant. The American Goliah Your jealousy will not take alarm at the prospect of a rival petrifaction at your side? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 Yet, what if the night were such as is often found even in Southern Greece during winter—a black frost; and that all the belligerents were found in the morning symmetrically grouped as petrifactions? Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 In the plains of Marin curious petrifactions exist;—I saw a honey-comb so perfect that the eye alone could scarcely divine the transformation. Two Years in the French West Indies Five daguerreotypes on the mantelpiece represented the Morpher family in the progressive stages of petrifaction, and had the Medusa-like effect of freezing visitors into similar attitudes in their chairs. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers If this theory be correct, it would be scarcely less interesting than if a petrifaction. The American Goliah The top of the Imposible, as nearly as I could perceive, is covered with a quartzose sandstone, free from petrifactions. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The wretched woman gazed at them in a kind of petrifaction. A Girl of the People "No," came the answer, with an almost imperceptible change of manner— a change as of gradual petrifaction, "I am not Mrs. Gregory." Fran In the fall of 1862, in Nevada and California, the people got to running wild about extraordinary petrifactions and other natural marvels. Sketches New and Old, Part 5. Then again we say it would have scarcely less interest as a work of the chisel, than a petrifaction. The American Goliah I saw no petrifactions in it; but the inhabitants assert that considerable masses of shells are found at great heights. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 They hardly uttered a whisper during two hours, but sat like petrifactions and drank in the immortal romance. Following the Equator, Part 3 How long ago was it since he had thought himself in a state of peaceful petrifaction? A House of Gentlefolk I chose to kill the petrifaction mania with a delicate, a very delicate satire. Sketches New and Old, Part 5. It is no wonder that so many are of opinion that he is a gigantic petrifaction. The American Goliah We observed, that the vegetation was more brilliant, wherever the Alpine limestone was covered by a quartzose sandstone without petrifactions, and very different from the breccia of the sea-coast. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 "He is almost a petrifaction already, and you know what depends on it." The Long Vacation His reverence attacked the petrifaction and egotism of the separate cell as far as the shallow system of this prison let him. It Is Never Too Late to Mend The materials for the petrifaction of organic remains are, therefore, usually at hand in a state of chemical solution wherever organic remains are imbedded in new strata. The Student's Elements of Geology There is no shadow of doubt that this is a genuine petrifaction. The American Goliah The breccia contain fragments of the same basalts which they cover; and it is asserted that marine petrifactions are observed in them. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 When I was shown these human petrifactions, I shrank back with disgust and horror. Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark The earl was slowly recovering from his petrifaction. East Lynne Such a process of petrifaction is still more remarkably exhibited in fossil wood, in which we often perceive not only the rings of annual growth, but all the minute vessels and medullary rays. The Student's Elements of Geology Whether the colossal figure be a petrifaction or a piece of statuary, it is a mystery and a success. The American Goliah These facts must be interesting to geologists, since attention has been fixed on the fresh-water formations, and the curious mixture of marine and fluviatile petrifactions sometimes observed in certain very recent rocks. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 After that, the thing was custom; and custom is a petrifaction: nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories In these architectures it seems as though the rigidity of the dogma had spread over the stone like a sort of second petrifaction. Notre-Dame De Paris In attempting to explain the process of petrifaction in such cases, we may first assume that strata are very generally permeated by water charged with minute portions of calcareous, siliceous, and other earths in solution. The Student's Elements of Geology Now it is safe to say that there is no substance that enters into the composition of stone that does not enter into the formation of a petrifaction. The American Goliah Even amid the blanched petrifaction of the Silver Grove fresh growths are creeping, and the day is not far distant that shall see those pale statues overtopped, submerged, lost in an emerald sea. Gala-days Look at those petrifactions all over it, these different substances almost turned to mineral, we might say, through the action of the salt water! In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant It was like a petrifaction of a human face in the softest moment of passion. Liber Amoris, or, the New Pygmalion This petrifaction of egoism would from amazedly to austerely refuse the petition. The Egoist Now, if the head is hollow, it is either a moulding or else it must be what those interested claim for it: a veritable petrifaction. The American Goliah Old age is simply the petrifaction of the body through lime, and the incorporating of erroneous thoughts into the organism. The Light of Egypt; or, the science of the soul and the stars — Volume 2 The limit of strength is petrifaction and immobility, but there is no limit to weakness, and cunning or fluidity is its counsellor. The Crock of Gold Cripple, fool, and petrifaction Fall to him—are falling now! Poems — Volume 2 The probabilities of its being a petrifaction have a better foundation, independent of outward appearances. The American Goliah These linings are well-known peculiarities in the original deposition of a stratified rock, and are not features assumed in the petrifaction of any organic body. The American Goliah If he proved to be a petrifaction, what a realm of awe and mysterious conjecture would he open to us. The American Goliah If on the application of acid there had been no effervescence, the inference would be that the specimen was not limestone, the material of which petrifactions are usually composed. The American Goliah So also all of the substances forming petrifaction may be found together in the same subject, or they may accomplish their work separately. The American Goliah I have heard one statue-theorist trying to prove that the decayed portion of one of the legs showed the presence of flint, and therefore he argued it could not be a petrifaction. The American Goliah His own language will best state his reasons for declining to think it a petrifaction. The American Goliah Although there are still intelligent advocates of the petrifaction theory, the preponderating weight of opinion supports the view that the giant wonder is a work of art. The American Goliah "A fish nearly a foot long, petrified to solid stone" has lately been cited in your columns as another instance of the petrifactions of the Onondaga Valley. The American Goliah |
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