| 单词 | slaty |
| 例句 | Sims shines in her deft characterizations, and in the descriptive passages that call the gloomy Northwest skies "stomped-newspaper gray" and the Puget Sound waters "slaty and ominous." New novels by Jane Porter and Elizabeth Sims are steeped in sense of place 2010-08-04T23:12:00Z The rock also has a strong slaty foliation, which is horizontal in this view, and has developed because the rock was being squeezed during metamorphism. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Slate is a fine-grained metamorphic rock that exhibits a foliation called slaty cleavage that is the flat orientation of the small platy crystals of mica and chlorite forming perpendicular to the direction of stress. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z He smoked a cigarette and admired the vivid slaty light. Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Lichens for the herbarium should, whenever possible, be sought for on a slaty or laminated rock, so as to procure them on flat thin pieces of the same, suitable for mounting. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Thus in the Willow-fly, though the anterior pair of wings are of a brownish colour, they appear of a dark slaty hue when the fly is seen crawling about. Old Flies in New Dresses How to Dress Dry Flies with the Wings in the Natural Position and Some New Wet Flies 2012-04-02T02:00:23.697Z The prevailing color is a slaty blue, undulated, and softly shaded with white all over the body, forming bands of various widths. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z Description.—Above nearly uniform slaty grey, below paler, whiter on the middle of the belly; bill dark horn-colour, feet clear brown: whole length 6·0 inches, wing 3·6, tail 2·6. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z Behind it, the land rises to a higher ridge, the edge of which is remarkably serrated, and probably of a slaty character. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z It is covered with slaty débris, and, what struck me as very remarkable, quantities of a substance resembling coarse white marble, totally different from the Cape itself. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z These volcanic rocks, owing to much 625 alteration, are often slaty; they have been called the “green slates and porphyries” or the Borrowdale Series. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The Black is not the only valuable race of Spanish fowl; there is, also, the Gray, or Speckled, of a slaty gray color, with white legs. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z Lithog′raphy, the art of writing or engraving on stone and printing therefrom.—Lithographic stone, slate, a yellowish, compact, fine-grained, slaty limestone used in lithography. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z The highest parts of the Mount form a ridge extending S.E. and N.W., being a succession of strata of slaty rock, dipping to the eastward, at an angle of 15� or 20� from the horizon. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z The aerial was there, towering as serenely against the slaty sky as though there was no such thing as a snowstorm. The Radio Boys at Mountain Pass The Midnight Call for Assistance 2012-01-02T03:00:17.697Z The river in its section of the plain, as far as Bloody Fall, presents alternately cliffs of reddish sandstone, and red-coloured slaty indurated clay or marl, and shelving white clay banks. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations 2011-12-26T03:00:13.520Z Then the crimson clouds high up in the west change to purple and brown, the sea grows grey, and the distant shore becomes slaty blue. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z Although these slaty rocks must be some thousand feet in thickness, they have been so broken up and turned over by the convulsions of the earth that their chronological sequence cannot easily be determined. Cornwall 2011-12-05T03:00:38.530Z These mountains consist of slaty talc much metamorphosed, and of serpentine. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z It was a hovel, growing, as it were, out of the hill-side; roofed with rough slabs of slaty stone; without a door or window; surrounded by quagmires of ordure, and dirt of every description. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z When the felspar assumed the appearance of a slaty claystone, which it did towards the base of the mountains on the banks of the river, we observed no copper in it. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations 2011-12-26T03:00:13.520Z There are few spots as a rule on the head, and those are of a slaty color. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z Head, neck, tail, and underparts white; back slaty gray; outer primaries black, a large white spot near tip of first one. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z Swish-swish, and a thick, blue-black helmet-headed creature — named, in the fanciful way of the dragonfly world, a slaty skimmer — danced in the fabric. It?s Complicated: When Dragonfly Love Comes Calling 2011-10-17T22:26:43Z The sea to the right was bright blue in some places, and a slaty grey where cloud shadows fell. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z The same rock having a thin slaty structure, and dipping to the northward, forms perpendicular walls to the river, whose bed lies a hundred and fifty feet below the level of the plain. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations 2011-12-26T03:00:13.520Z Much mercury is found native in a slaty kind of earth, or in masses of clay or stone; but the greatest quantity is found combined with sulphur in native cinnabar. Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry 2011-10-11T02:01:05.817Z Above slaty blue; middle tail feather with not more than four black bands. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z Bits here and there are not unlike the 'chimneys' on Slieve League, but the material is more friable, resembling loose walls of very inferior slaty fragments. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z In the olden time many of its streets were cut in the slaty rock, leaving its sombre surface bare to the light of day. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z Although called blue, the colour is a slaty or drab tone. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Under surface slaty brown with prominent silver crescents on the hind wings. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z No white eye-ring; crown and cheeks bluish slate; throat blackish; breast black more or less veiled by slaty; belly yellow; back olive-green. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z Josh Perrott made an offer at slashing the slaty face, checked his arm, and went on. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z This bulging part was of a slaty black, and the end travelled over the earth not higher than half the elevation of an ordinary elm. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Bituminous, slaty coal, constitutes a very large geological basin in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, where it appears to have resulted from the burial of ancient forests. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z Upper wing surface blackish brown with a slaty tinge, and red spots at base of the single short tail on each hind wing. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z Throat and front of face black; rest of head and underparts slaty gray, the belly whitish; back reddish brown narrowly streaked with black. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z But our fancier would be compelled to match, generation after generation, his pale blue males with slaty females, for he wishes to keep the 156latter of this colour. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z The channel is rocky, the rocks being of a trappean or slaty formation, not easily worn by the water, and capable of furnishing good foundations for dams and mills. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z There they piled themselves up in shadowy hills, there they rolled and tumbled like thistledown in a breeze, and again cascaded down to lower levels to dissolve with muttering thunder in slaty sheets of rain. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z Lower wing surface slaty brown with many darker spots. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z Above slaty black; under surface of wing white; inner webs of outer primaries white. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z There was a sudden light below the sharp horizon between black roof and slaty sky, yet no flame rose above the roof. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z Among remarkable curiosities are two large boulders—one of a slaty rock, the other of granite half embedded in the sand. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z Thus do slaty soils achieve and maintain a warmth unique in their respective latitudes, so as to ripen grapes further North, and at higher elevations, than would otherwise be possible. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z But the path was now filled with stones and huge slaty rocks, on which my horse was continually slipping. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z Back and wings slaty black; wing feathers tipped with white. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z Smoke showed in a long slaty line, and soon was revealed the fine sheer and trim rig of a revenue cutter. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z Their appearance at night was weird, as they were of a slaty white colour, and resembled huge, gaunt spectres. Settling Day 2011-03-08T03:00:36.623Z Never a sunbeam to call forth a rainbow against the dark sky, never a gleam of light in the dull slaty gray. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z Loose stones again strewed the approach to the Márie range, which is of trap formation, of a slaty texture, stained with red iron oxide, and intersected by veins of iron clay. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Above slaty gray, tail barred with black and tipped with white; sides of breast rusty; rest of underparts white. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z North, to the slaty horizon, stretched the broken surface of the ice field. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z Some varieties are slaty, and are frequently mistaken for clinkstone, which they closely resemble. Geology 2011-02-20T03:00:12.660Z Emerald has been worked in a vein of pegmatite, piercing slaty rocks, near Emmaville, in New South Wales. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z The face was a ghastly colour—a slaty shade of blue. The House of Strange Secrets A Detective Story 2011-01-15T03:00:37.173Z Head and neck brownish; throat and line down foreneck white; above slaty washed with brownish, rump, and belly white. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z The speck had grown into a trailing pencil of smoke which lay athwart the slaty sky. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z At the end of the valley the hills unite into slaty cliffs which take a sudden fjord-like turn before reaching the sea. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z It occurs in veins in slaty rocks, associated with jaspers and quartzites rich in magnetite and brown iron-ore. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" It was all of slaty formation, jagged, serrated, and gray with moss. The Girl From Tim's Place Below ochraceous-rufous; no bars; forehead slaty crown black with rusty bars; back mixed black, rusty and slaty. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z The senner, at my request, showed me his storeroom, and explained to me the process of making cheese, its interest to me consisting in its bearing upon the question of slaty cleavage. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. The more elevated parts were composed of slaty rocks; and from the snow with which they were covered the water was running in copious streams. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History The bill is yellow, blotched with dark-brown, the general colour of the plumage dusky-grey, the head, neck, and breast slaty, the legs blackish. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Sometimes stones of a slaty nature would be heated and when becoming quite hot would burst with a loud report and fly in all directions. Bee Hunting A Book of Valuable Information for Bee Hunters - Tell How to Line Bees to Trees, Etc. Throat black; cheeks slaty, above blackish; below grayish. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z This is the whole philosophy of puff-paste; it is a grossly exaggerated case of slaty cleavage. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. Gneiss, which is composed of quartz, feldspar, and mica, more or less distinctly slaty, is inferior to granite. The Future of Road-making in America The beast now revealed itself a dapple-grey; and at last between its unkempt ears, and against the slaty sky to westward, Moya described the timbers of the whim. The Shadow of a Man "My daughter!" cried Mu�oz, losing in a moment his bright complexion, and becoming of a slaty pallor, "my daughter, that mad imp of hell—who thrice has tried to assassinate me!" The Firebrand Head, neck, and breast, slaty; back blacker, margined with slaty; central secondaries largely white. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z In the phenomena of slaty cleavage, it is often, if not usually, found that the true cleavage cuts the planes of stratification—sometimes at a very high angle. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. A layer of peat at the summit has a thin slaty structure, and presents altogether, except in colour and lustre, a striking resemblance to the shaly lignite, forming bed No. 3 in the preceding Section. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea It was a little nook, chipped out from the solid rock, having a smooth slaty floor, about twelve feet square, with a semi-circular recess of about half that depth into the side of the mountain. Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 In the juvenal plumage flight feathers of the kites are brown, barred with white, much different in appearance from the dark, slaty plumage of adults. Observations on the Mississippi Kite in Southwestern Kansas Above plain slaty gray; below white barred with slaty gray. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z My observations, I thought, pointed to a theory of slaty cleavage different from any previously given, and which, moreover, referred a great number of apparently unrelated phenomena to a common cause. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. The slaty masses are, generally, vertical; but in one hill they were observed dipping 80° to the south-east. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea Schist is often used as synonymous with slate; but it may be very useful to distinguish between a schistose and a slaty structure. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Upon the high, black, slaty ledges of the Sierra of Guadarrama, winter descends early. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion Above slaty gray; crown darker; below barred white and rusty brown. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z Olive-green; crown, slaty; white below, lightly tinged on sides; dark line above a white one over eye; clear, persistent song; nests in Lincoln Park. Wild Birds in City Parks Being hints on identifying 145 birds, prepared primarily for the spring migration in Lincoln Park, Chicago They are parted by thin slaty beds of sandstone, containing small pieces apparently of bituminous coal, and some casts of vegetables. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea The hypogene or primary schists, as they are termed, such as gneiss, mica-schist, and others, cannot be split into an indefinite number of parallel laminæ like rocks which have a true slaty cleavage. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology The cap in this species is usually a mouse-gray, sometimes slaty gray or brownish, generally umbonate in the center and distinctly striated on the margin. Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous Above slaty gray; below barred slaty-gray and white. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z The reaches of the river were beginning to show slaty downstream and a little damp wind running with the day was like a chill after fever, unfriendly and comfortless. Where the Pavement Ends It is formed of columnar greenstone, reposing on slaty limestone, and rising precipitously from the sea to the height of three hundred and fifty feet. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea A provincial term, adopted by geologists, to express an indurated slaty clay. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Buffaloes of an uncouth appearance and of a dark slaty colour, strikingly contrasting with the neat cattle, abound in Egypt. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Above slaty gray; breast buff, lower belly rusty. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z There were still some tough rapids—shallow, and tortuous, and grid-ironed with slaty rocks—to be climbed; but there were quiet pools to sojourn in, and no perils that his craft could not evade. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life In many spots the rocks split into such thin slaty looking tables that they have the appearance of being stratified. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea What appeared most remarkable was the horizontal slaty structure that the old alluvial banks presented, or the regular curve that the strata assumed from unequal subsidence. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology They are at a depth of about 12 ft., in slaty shale containing Llandeilo fossils and contemporaneous felspathic ash and scoriae. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" Head and throat slaty black, margined behind with black; bill black, tipped with yellow; outer primaries black, small tip and inner half of inner web white. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z Shale is a common and widely distributed stratified formation of a slaty nature, and there are few types of clay soil that would not serve for cob-making. Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) In the whole country occupied by this formation, the ground is covered with slaty fragments, sometimes to the depth of three feet or more. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea Thus, for example, on the borders of Wales and Shropshire we find the slaty beds of the ancient Silurian system curved and vertical, while the beds of the overlying carboniferous shale and sandstone are horizontal. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology The slaty blue simply turned to yellow when it was exposed to the air for a while. The Flaming Mountain Head, neck, and under parts white; back, wings, and tail slaty gray. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z The material is a conglomerate of slaty gravel with a very sandy clay, to which mixture a small proportion of straw has been added. Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) In contact with the greenstone, there is a bed of talcose limestone, having a curved, slaty structure; most of the beds of dolomite are hard, and pass into chert. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea It frequently became necessary for one of us to journey through the now more sparse timber, up the slaty, moss-covered, mountainous "divide," and over to the claims on the fast-becoming-famous Ophir Creek. The Land of Nome A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901) The adult is slaty blue above, with a rusty collar and a barred, white-tipped tail; below buff, streaked with blackish. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season Front of head plush-like; cushiony pads around eyes; above largely white; breast slaty black; belly black. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z The origin of this valley was pre-volcanic, as it is hewn out of the slaty rocks of the district. Volcanoes: Past and Present The shale is of a brown colour and thin slaty structure, with an earthy fracture. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea This character belongs, more or less, to nearly the whole mass of slaty crystalline rocks; it is one of exquisite beauty, and of the highest importance to their picturesque forms. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) A stony, narrow path went by the door and climbed the ravine to the world; a bed of slaty rock slanted sheer below it to the white tossing water. An Isle in the Water Head and neck maroon; rest of plumage slaty blue. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z About two miles beyond the old quarry, on a slaty hillside, he found a deep pit, which had probably been used as a water-hole in prehistoric times; and here he built himself a hut. Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies Bed No. 9 is the same mineral that forms beds 1 and 5; but it has a grayer colour from the greater quantity of coaly particles, and its structure is slightly slaty. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea Besides this actual softness of substance, the slaty coherents are 2. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) The soil of the place is a slaty clay known geologically as shale. Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 Above slaty gray more or less margined with whitish; breast and sides slaty gray; throat and belly white. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z Just under the crest of the hill was a row of rifle pits, four feet deep in the slaty white rock. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" The beds of this formation seldom exceed a foot in thickness, and are often very thin and slaty. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea As far as regards ministry to the purposes of man, the slaty coherents are of somewhat more value than the slaty crystallines. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) Evans was wild again from the tee, his drive being sliced to the brook where he got a lie on the slaty bottom. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories Above slaty margined with whitish; breast barred slaty and whitish; belly white spotted with slaty. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z In forming a temporary harbour, at which we boated the stones we had been quarrying, I struck my pick into a slaty sandstone bed, thickly mottled in the layers by carbonaceous markings. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. There were no rocks in sitû, or large stones, near the encampment; the rolled pebbles on the beach were sandstone of red and light brown colours, greenstone, and slaty limestone. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea But the top of the Montanvert is actually formed, as shown at M, by the crests of the oblique beds of slaty crystallines. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) It sloped very steeply for some twelve feet below, opening on the face of the precipice above the glacier, and was filled to within about four feet of the surface with flat, slaty gravel. Alaska Days with John Muir Above slaty or brownish black; sides slaty; under surface of wings dusky, sometimes mixed with white. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z The rock is a dark slaty looking tufa, the surface of which displays ring or rosette-like markings, reminding one of the polished surface of a section of fossil coral. Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 The island was composed of sand and slaty clay, into which the thaw had not penetrated above a foot. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea It occasionally happens that a precipice is formed among the higher crests by the sides of vertical beds of slaty crystallines. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) On sea and sky a more melancholy tone had come,–dull, slaty grays crowding in from every quarter. The Pines of Lory Breast and belly rich rust-brown; above dark slaty, head and spots in back black. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z Another class of objects made of the same fine grained, slaty looking tufa is illustrated in Fig. 24. Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 Alejandro's red cap was a mere speck in the ca�on, and his herd was sprinkled, like bread-crumbs, over the slaty hills. A Prairie Infanta Now the Yoredale shales are members of the group of rocks which I have called slaty coherents, and correspond very closely to those portions of the Alpine slates described in Chap. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) Between the gray sky and the slaty sea their white sails looked whiter than chalk. The Seiners Below rust-brown, belly whiter, a broad black breast-band; above slaty, line behind eye and bars in wing rusty; outer tail-feathers with white tips. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z As the rude gusts rushed from the slaty clouds, the rich leaves came fluttering upon them, blotting the air and falling on the earth thick as snow-flakes. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 This and the following species are widely known as "Blue-bills" owing to the slaty blue color of that member. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. I am well aware how insufficient, and, in some measure, how disputable, the account given in the preceding chapters of the cleavages of the slaty crystallines must appear to geologists. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) To the westward are Watersmouth, with its natural arch in the slaty rocks bordering the sea, and Hillsborough rising boldly to guard a tiny cove. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel Above slaty, crown blacker with an orange patch. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z There were no flints in the neighborhood, or slaty rocks, which he could split into edged and pointed fragments. In the Morning of Time They also have a white phase, but always show traces of the slaty blue, especially on the primaries. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. But, as far as I am aware, it is impossible to produce artificially anything resembling the structure of the slaty crystallines. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) Of a slaty blue colour itself with darker hackles and with black lacing on the feathers of the breast, it always throws "wasters" of two kinds, viz. blacks, and whites splashed with black. Mendelism Third Edition Those which I saw appeared to belong to that species of the silicious genus usually called Gneiss, a sort of slaty granite. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton It is a modest-appearing bird, about the size of a thrush, and wears a plain dress of slaty blue. Wild Life on the Rockies A dark slaty colored bird with white specks, and a patch of dark chestnut on the fore back. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. As, however, the slaty and compact crystallines, so also the slaty and compact coherents pass into each other by subtle gradations, and present many intermediate conditions, very obscure and indefinable. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) The adjacent mountains have a slaty appearance, with horizontal strata. 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 I found three of them lying in one little slaty fragment of two and a half inches by four, which I brought along with me. 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 mountains rose starkly to the slaty sky. Mountain Blood A Novel The mantle is dark slaty black, and the primaries are black with white tips. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. This curvature is not to be confounded with that rippling or undulating character of every portion of the slaty crystalline rocks above described. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) But before he could raise his gun, the shrike, to his amazement, burst into an exquisite song, sweet and pure as a thrush’s melody, and, spreading its slaty wings, it sailed off through the sunshine. A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories Wave on wave her heavy robes collapse In green torrents Lashed with slaty foam. Japanese Prints Those of soft material were cut out of steatite, a soft limestone similar to chalk, but usually they were of a white or grayish slaty stone easily cut and which stood fire. Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc. A handsome bird, having the slaty hood bordered behind with a black ring, the primaries black, white tipped, and the tail slightly forked. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. But the crests of the form at c belong usually to the slaty crystallines, and are those properly called crests, their edges looking, especially when covered with pines, like separated plumes. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) “The moonshine shineth in his eye, From which no tear doth fall, Full of vacuity as death, Its slaty parched ball Fixedly, though expressionless, Gleams on the distant hall.” Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 They felt thoroughly secure in their elevated fortress, the approach up the mountain-side being almost a precipice, the slaty rock cropping out into natural breastworks along its sides and on its heights. Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality The Andalusians may be ranked as a sub-breed: they are of a slaty blue colour, and their chickens are well feathered. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. They are but ten inches in length; the whole head, neck and under parts are black; the back, wings and tail are slaty and the under tail coverts are white. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. This is not easily done on a large scale, except among the slaty crystallines forming the flanks of the great chains, as in Fig. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) The column advancing in single file extended over a distance of nearly three miles, and as the sun rose high in the heavens the reflected heat from the bare slaty rocks became almost insupportable. A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle The eyes were a peculiar slaty gray and had depths inviting inspection. The House of Toys They exfoliate or come off in leaves; all these effects belong, I believe, to the great class of phenomena of which slaty cleavage forms the most prominent example. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 A smaller species than the preceding, length 22 inches, plumage a uniform slaty blue changing to purplish red on the head and neck. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The form is obtained usually in the greatest perfection among the high ridges near the central chain, where the beds of the slaty crystallines are steep and hard. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) The general hue of this bird is slaty blue. Birds of the Indian Hills The fog passed on, and then one day came a slaty gray sea and a slaty sky. The U-boat hunters In some localities, round pebble-stones are found scattered over the surface, or piled in heaps upon our farms; in others, flat, slaty stones abound, and in others, broken stones from quarries may be more convenient. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles This peculiar species is grayish above and lighter gray below, has dark slaty crown, and a patch of rose color on the lower throat. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. In the third paragraph of the last chapter we had occasion to refer to the junction of the slaty and compact crystallines at the roots of the aiguilles. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) The back is greenish yellow, the rest of the plumage is slaty with some dashes of black and white. Birds of the Indian Hills The black, the white and the dun, the striped, the spotted, and the ringed, are all metamorphosed into one—a dark slaty blue. Natural Law in the Spiritual World The scarf of greyish or slaty blue, worn by all women in Mexico, except the ladies of the Upper Ten Thousand, who use it only on occasions. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico This species is slaty gray on the head, neck, breast, flanks, back, wings and central tail feathers; the rest of the underparts are white, sharply defined against the gray. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Craig glanced out of the window into the slaty sky, from which rain was falling. Joan of Arc of the North Woods The legs are pinkish slaty, and the bill is slate coloured in some individuals, and almost white in others. Birds of the Indian Hills The first land he made after leaving Greenland he named Helluland on account of its slaty rocks. Canada The coal was of the bituminous variety, having a jet black color and slaty structure. Old Mackinaw The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings Similar to thurberi with the head and neck slaty instead of black. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. In the slaty twilight the garden's verdure was lustreless, grass and foliage uniformly sombre save where dewdrops showed like beryls. Chivalry The soil is a reddish stony or slaty gravel, dry, except low lands, which are clay or turf. A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779 By ten all was slaty grey dusk, into which a man could stretch his hand well out of his own sight. Patsy The whole of the building, walls, roof, and floor, had been painted at some time or other a black colour, which was now faded and looked a dark slaty grey. Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset A beautiful Vireo with a slaty blue crown and nape, greenish back, white wing bars and underparts, the flanks being washed with greenish yellow; a conspicuous mark is the white eye ring and loral spot. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The whole ocean was of a dark slaty hue, with white, hissing, foaming crests dancing up as far as the eye could reach, while many came hissing up and almost leaped on board. True Blue The banks are not more than ten feet above the level of the water, which here breaks over a grey slaty rock, extending across to the eastern shore. Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley Tall cotton grass flaunted up suddenly through the slaty haze of the night of pursuit. Patsy The Norseman trotted about fifty yards on beyond the entrance to the ravine he had been set to search, and picked up a piece of slaty coal. Steve Young At that moment a piece of slaty rock came sliding down from on high, to fall with a crash and splinter on the rock at his feet. Cutlass and Cudgel Under certain conditions of pressure, these fissures take the aspect of slaty cleavage; under others, they become irregular cracks, dividing all the substance of the stone. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature Of silicious soils there are four varieties, viz.—sandy, gravelly, slaty, and rocky. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Dark-colored, slaty, and gray flours are of inferior quality, indicating a poor grade of wheat, poor milling, or a poor quality of gluten. Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value The region is celebrated for its wines; and the grapes of the slaty rocks have a highly musky perfume. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland The other day I took up idly some magazine or other, one of those great lemon-coloured, salmon-hued, slaty paper volumes which lie in rows on the tables of my club. Joyous Gard It was a cheerless February day, dark and slaty overhead, dusty below. Marriage à la mode Slaty—Where the slaty substratum is much intermixed with the soil. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry The Strid of Wordsworth was bounded by the slaty banks of the "Crystal Wharf," and the Strid of Wilson, in his best moments, was as large as the valley of Glencoe. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Gaspar Cortereal comes in 1500 from Portugal on Cabot's tracks to that land of "slaty rocks" which the Norse saw long ago. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom DESCRIPTION.—Deep slaty blue, with a whitish or hoary gloss, iridescent when wet; the tail covered with soft hair. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon The tender blue of the sky faded at sundown to a slaty gray. North of Fifty-Three The staining is of a dull red or slaty blue colour. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology The rocks which form the bed of this river are slaty, and present sharp fragments, by which the feet of the boatmen are much lacerated. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 It also differs in the depth of bloom-colour; some of its flowers may be described as purplish-green and others as greenish-purple, slaty and dove-coloured; others have a tinge of red more visible. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. The slaty colour of Wolf's drawing is probably due to an incorrect conception of Hodgson's term grey, which he defines as a yellowish-grey. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon The dawn thrust aside night's somber curtains while they ate, revealing a sky overcast with slaty clouds. North of Fifty-Three A slaty cloud raised its head in the east, and against that her siren's face was pale. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story We passed over slaty rocks in the bed; and the depth of water was often not more than three feet. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative The original, of rather slaty Lavagna stone, has never been photographed, and the cast, many thousands of which exist, entirely fails to show the intangible and diaphanous qualities of the original. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres DESCRIPTION.—Body pisciform, terminated by a horizontal fin with two lobes; colour slaty brown above, sometimes bluish black, whitish below. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon These slaty and gneissoid planes are seen to be parallel to the direction and attitude of the sediments, wherever they are near enough for comparison. History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia Kit's House es a gran' place wi' a slaty roof an' a I-talian garden, and a mighty deal too fine for the likes of Paul an' me. The Astonishing History of Troy Town The road was rough with slaty rock, the air became beaming hot, and L'Isle told the guide to lead them to some place of shelter from the noon-day sun. The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters On one of the flat ridge-tops a little village of stunted, slaty houses squatted like an ape, with a vigilant eye on twenty gorges. The Half-Hearted DESCRIPTION.—Fine fur, of a grey or slaty grey for two-thirds of the basal portion, the remaining upper third being from a deep to a bright chestnut. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon There is no flint to make celts, but quartz and rocks having a slaty cleavage are abundant. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi The latter was divided from it by a low, thin wall of sharp slaty stones, and on the further side there was a wide and boggy drain. All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches There was something outlandish, too, about the soft slouch hat and the cut of the clothes, of a slaty grey that showed up clearly amidst the earthy and green colours all around. Secret Bread The slaty bench of clouds had lifted into the zenith. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul DESCRIPTION.—General hue olive brown, each hair having a blackish tip, a sub-apical yellow band, and a slaty black base. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon At 3.40 made half a mile north-west up the creek, which has a slaty bed, where we crossed. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills A stampede of huddled sheep, wildly scampering over the slaty shingle, emerged from the leaden mist that muffled the fell-top, and a shrill shepherd's whistle broke the damp stillness of the air. Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship Plumage sombre, general colour slaty, quills and crest blackish, bill and feet orange, tail forked. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries That intense band of light which had first betrayed the smoke of the fleet eroded upwards into the low, slaty roof of nimbus till the gloom was dissolved to the zenith. London River In the dull November days, when the clouds drifted in straight lines of slaty gray, it assumed a weird, forbidding look. A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others Substitutes for Paper are chips of wood, inner bark of trees, calico and other tissues, lead plates, and slaty stone. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries It was impossible for the Prioress to say no, and a slaty blush of anger came into her cheek. Sister Teresa This granite varies much; being below a coarse quartzose grey rock, above a very compact brown rock, except perhaps in its lowest outcrop, where it has a slaty structure. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries But these may, probably, have been brought from other islands in the neighbourhood; for a piece of slaty, iron-coloured stone was bought at one of them, which was never seen here. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time This water attracts and dissolves the saline matter, but, as water cannot so affect the slaty portion of the rock, it leaves it often in most fantastic shapes, sometimes as pillars or depending, curtain-like sheets. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 The Commandant wished that the new French uniforms, instead of being a slaty blue, had been green, for use in the spring fighting. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front Behind her rolled a puff of slaty blue smoke. The Uphill Climb The country presents the same ridges of singular hills formed of veins of slaty, tabular, brown rock, this is very conspicuous at Thembounwa. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries Well, she was about Metta's age, a short thirty, a kind of a slaty blonde with bobbed hair—she'd been reached fore and aft—and dressed mostly in a pale-blue smock and no stockings. Ma Pettengill The rest of the night the Texan put in digging a cave with a piece of slaty shale. A Man Four-Square Upon a long layer of the slaty stone were marks of ripplings of some now waveless sea; mid which were tri-toed footprints of some huge heron, or wading fowl. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II The rocks which form the bed of this river are slaty and present sharp fragments by which the feet of the boatmen are much lacerated. The Journey to the Polar Sea The other two are rugged; the central one is perhaps the highest; the lower portions cliffy, evidently slaty. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries It led up stairs of graywacke, along the brink of slaty cliffs that dropped sheer, hundreds of feet to the stream below. The Rim of the Desert Abreast of peak at four and three-quarter miles; went to top of it; it was very steep and composed of very rough sandstone, granite, and decaying slaty stones. McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia The rock composing the summit consists of very coarse, dark, volcanic conglomerate; the lower parts appeared to be of a slaty structure. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter The sinuous course of the frozen river was almost black under the slaty sky of March. Hillsboro People The mountains being chiefly of limestone, then becoming slaty, very precipitous, rugged, and barren; on emerging from this very tedious ravine, we entered on some sward with plenty of Tamarisk, and Salix vimenea. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries The shore in this part is mostly high and cliffy; and under the cliffs were lying black lumps, apparently of slaty stone, rounded by attrition. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 A gray chilling shadow of the sort of gray that a stormy sky sometimes shows, gray tingeing into slaty black. Quiet Talks about Jesus At times when the vertical fissures predominate and run chiefly in one direction, the porphyry assumes a slaty character, and large thin masses may be detached. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 Yet in this great, calm city, with its vaporous browns and slaty blues, and its characteristic acrid smell of gasoline fumes, was another Paris, a terrible Paris, which I was that night to see. A Volunteer Poilu The rocks forming the narrow ravine are very rough and slaty: limestones presenting the usual characters. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries Red, somewhat slaty jasper, mixed with quartz and chalcedony, and containing specular iron ore. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 In the slaty twilight the garden’s verdure was lustreless, the grass and foliage were uniformly sombre save where dewdrops showed like beryls. Chivalry That is to say, it is impossible to produce a slaty gray image. Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 The rain was streaking with light, cobwebby lines the slaty darkness, of the night. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Housed for long, unprofitable hours, everything had looked slaty at first. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel A small miner's pick is useful for cutting out, and splitting portions of slaty rocks; or for obtaining specimens of clays, etc. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 The weather was very sultry, and the sky towards the west was of a slaty blue. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine A slaty bank of cloud spread a somber film across the sky. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Sixty, seventy, eighty— All your cheeks so slaty! The Princess and the Goblin But the path was now filled with stones and huge slaty rocks, on which my horse slid, frequently on his haunches. Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society There were pools of rain on it, and masses of tangled snow-laden junipers, and long reefs of wet slaty stone. Greenmantle It was a dazzling March afternoon, with a shower of sun from the mid-blue, and a marshalling of slaty clouds behind the umber-colored hills. The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 The hedgerows and trees are scarcely perceptible against the bare earth, whose slaty hue they have taken on. O Pioneers! The creature represented but a low type of animal existence, for never in their vernal years had the plains indicated by those numberless slaty layers been traversed by an intelligence worthy of the name. A Pair of Blue Eyes The sky was of a crimson hue, the houses of a slaty blue, and the green fields of a brick red tint. History and Practice of the Art of Photography About coal, it should be understood that good hard coal has a glossy black color and a bright surface, whereas poor coal contains slaty pieces. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads The harbor was slaty, cold, and there was a continuous slapping of small waves on the shore. Java Head The waters of the loch had turned a slaty black; little angry waves broke incessantly over its surface; and inky black clouds were gathering slowly on the distant horizon. The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story It is needless to say that these varying snowballs did not help Blondey's sure-footedness, especially as the snow was just thick enough to conceal the treacherous slaty rocks beneath. A Woman Tenderfoot The rock composing the summit consists of a very coarse, dark, volcanic conglomerate; the lower parts appeared to be of a slaty structure. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources If it could be put upon canvas just as he had seen it, with the bitter, biting cold of a frozen chinook showing gray and sinister in the slaty sky— "Kid!" Chip, of the Flying U The skin does not always take the same color; it becomes in most cases grayish blue, slaty sometimes, though, a greenish brown or olive color. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 He laid down the book with reluctance, thinking the envelope contained some advertisement of slaty coal for his kitchen-fire, or cottony silk for his girls' dresses. Adela Cathcart, Volume 2 There is still a slaty range on each side of the river, with quartz hills close down to it; the timber the same as yesterday. Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart The country over which we have passed to-day consists principally of the compact mica slate, which crops out on all ridges, making the uplands very rocky and slaty. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources About two miles beyond the old quarry, on a slaty hillside, he found a deep pit; and here he built himself a hut. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe The next stratum was of a loose, yellow, gravelly lime, and the third blue, of a hard, slaty nature. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 I lingered, and yet felt the strong impulse to hurry back to the society of men, out of the sound of the angry river, whose slaty waves flashed out strange gleams. Two Summers in Guyenne A few great snowflakes drifted down from the slaty sky; a puff of wind sent them dancing down the street, shook more down, and whirled them giddily. Lonesome Land The mountains along this day's journey were composed, near the river, of a slaty calcareous rock in a metamorphic condition. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Under this strip of land, after digging through several slaty layers of rock, the red sandstone is found. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway It is adorned with a long pointed crest and a black neck-ring, the plumage being otherwise of a pale slaty blue, while the legs and the naked skin about the eyes are bright red. The Naturalist in La Plata But only the mosses were sufficiently abundant to make conspicuous masses of color to relieve the dull slaty gray of the glacial mud and gravel. Travels in Alaska The mantelpiece and fireplace were of a dark slaty stone, and of brick, respectively. Archibald Malmaison It appears originally to have been a slaty sedimentary limestone, but its present condition indicates that it has been altered, and has become partially crystalline--probably from the proximity of volcanic rocks. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Mica-slate, chloritic slate and the rocks of slaty amphibole contain magnetic sand in the tropical regions of Venezuela, as in the most northern regions of Europe. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Though absolutely cloudless, the sky seemed oppressed with slaty gloom, and the leaves of the trees near at hand assumed a leaden green. My Tropic Isle Steelman ran his eye meditatively over the cutting again, and turning to Smith said: "Go up there, James, and fetch me a specimen of that slaty outcrop you see there—just above the coeval strata." While the Billy Boils After marching three miles we camped at the foot of the ridge to be ascended next morning: the place is called Safhat el-Mu'ayrah from a slaty schistose hill on the eastern bank. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 We set out at seven a.m. on the next day, when an Azyab or south-easterly wind was promised by the damp air, the slaty sea, and the gloomy nimbi on the hill-tops. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 In the latter case its presence seems to prove still more clearly that the limestones of Cumanacoa and Caripe are only two parts of the same system, alternating with sandstone, sometimes quartzose, sometimes slaty. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 The MacAdam Range is of sandstone, the strata of which dip about 30 degrees to the south, in which direction, as we advanced, the rock was more slaty, and broke into rhomboidal fragments. Journals of Australian Explorations The ascent of the hills, which are densely wooded, was along spurs, and over knolls of clay; the rocks were sandy and slaty ?dip north-east 60 degrees. Himalayan Journals — Complete In all of them the females are dull brown or slaty black on the back and neck, these parts being beautiful bronze green in the males. The Naturalist in Nicaragua They have beautiful slaty or bluish-gray plumage with a dark soot-black head, while encircling the eye is a white ring which stands out conspicuously from the dark feathers surrounding it. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 It appeared to me to be much more ancient than the tertiary conglomerate of Barigon, and I saw it covering, in concordant position, a slaty clay, somewhat analogous to muriatiferous clay. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 We then entered a series of slaty, low, sandstone ranges, amongst which were some well-grassed flats, and plenty of water in the main gullies. Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia I knew it only by its slaty shimmer through the fading green of the tree-tops between me and it. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood Thus, for example, on the borders of Wales and Shropshire, we find the slaty beds of the ancient Silurian system inclined and vertical, while the beds of the overlying carboniferous shale and sandstone are horizontal. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) She was dark and massive, with black hair, thick, black eyebrows and eyes of the clear, slaty blue of the gulf water in a north wind. Rainbow Valley It incloses angular and less friable masses of dark brown clay with a slaty and sometimes conchoidal fracture. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 The country was in general poor, with partial tracts of better ground; the hills were slaty, and covered as well as the levels with small eucalypti, cypresses, and casuarinas. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales There were also some layers of very good coal, but the greater part of those visible were of a slaty character. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 The result attained is the conviction that no blue is really inconspicuous, and that some of the harsh new slaty tints are no less striking than the deeper shades they have superseded. Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort At the same time, the coast of Nova Scotia grew more obscure, though it lost none of its magnified proportions, while the slaty blue of Ile Haute changed to a grayer shade. Lost in the Fog Was it in the beds of slaty clay that alternate with the alpine limestone of Cumanacoa? Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Further on one passes peculiar horseshoe coves, with contorted lines of sandstone on one side and slaty blue rocks on the other, and necks of transparent sea of wonderful blueness between them. In Wicklow and West Kerry Here, also, is the "granite," making the walls sombre, as the colour is slaty to black. The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons There was dry mud on the back of his coat, his shirt-cuffs and collar were of a slaty hue, his hands and face filthy. Demos Not for him to notice how the vegetation changed when the limestone was passed, and the white quartz reefs began to seam the slaty sides of the valley like rivers of silver! Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn The slaty rock exhibits no open cleft; and none is found parallel with the direction of the slates. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 When the hornblende and feldspar are in nearly equal quantities, and the rock is not slaty, it corresponds in character with the greenstones of the trap family, and has been called "primitive greenstone." The Student's Elements of Geology This bed includes three layers of coarse, black, calcareous, somewhat slaty rock: the upper part passes into a compact red sandstone. Geological Observations on South America "You would not have to look long among those fissures of slaty schist without finding peptites of considerable value." Five Weeks in a Balloon On his left, a lofty inaccessible cliff; on the right, a frightful blue abyss; while the slaty soil kept sliding from beneath his horse's feet. Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn The sky was low and slaty gray; a fine rain was falling. The Metal Monster The granite of Dartmoor, in Devonshire, says Sir H. De la Beche, has intruded itself into the Carboniferous slate and slaty sandstone, twisting and contorting the strata, and sending veins into them. The Student's Elements of Geology In some of the jaspery layers, and in some of the black siliceous slaty bands, there were irregular seams of imperfect pitchstone, undoubtedly of metamorphic origin, and other seams of brown, crystalline limestone. Geological Observations on South America "We are going into the sunlight, out of the shadow;" and she glanced back at the west, which was of a slaty blackness. Ramona Then comes the reef, where the water is all slaty purple flecked with red. The Cruise of the Snark But our fancier would be compelled to match, generation after generation, his pale blue males with slaty females, for he wishes to keep the latter of this colour. The Descent of Man It is not uncommon to meet with an argillaceous rock having the same composition, without the slaty cleavage, which may be called argillite. The Student's Elements of Geology Through slaty hills whose sides are shagged with thorn, Where springs, in scattered tufts, the dark green corn, Towers wood-girt Harden far above the vale. Angling Sketches The house, fairly well built of a species of slaty stone with granite courses, has no architecture; it presents to the eye a plain wall with windows at regular intervals. Beatrix The walls, though built of the smooth, slaty stone which abounds in that region, showed many rifts and chinks where ivy had fastened its rootlets. The Chouans At the very last Skeeter rolled a pebble under his foot and stumbled—and again Smoky came in with his slaty nose in the lead. Cow-Country It is slaty, essentially composed of mica and quartz, the mica sometimes appearing to constitute the whole mass. The Student's Elements of Geology After awhile he had to descend from the ridge where he found himself standing bleakly revealed against a lowering, slaty sky that dripped rain incessantly. Cabin Fever For a moment she remained dazzlingly white, then faded away slowly to nothing in a squall, only to reappear again, nearly black, resembling a post stuck upright against the slaty background of solid cloud. The Mirror of the Sea S-S are the lines of stratification; D, D are lines of slaty cleavage, which intersect the rock at a considerable angle to the planes of stratification. The Student's Elements of Geology Hughes, Mr. T. McKenny, cited. —, on slaty cleavage. —, on protrusion of solid granite. The Student's Elements of Geology This is by no means a rare fossil in the slaty limestone of South Devon, and, like the Eifel form, is confined to the middle group of this country. The Student's Elements of Geology This trap consists of slaty porphyry and granular feldspar rock, the beds being traversed by joints like those in the associated sandstone, limestone, and shale, and having the same strike and dip. The Student's Elements of Geology To this subject I shall refer again when treating of the metamorphic rocks, and of the slaty and jointed structure. The Student's Elements of Geology In some of these slaty rocks in Ireland, immediately opposite Anglesea and Carnarvon, two species of fossils have been found, to which the late Professor E. Forbes gave the name of Oldhamia. The Student's Elements of Geology |
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