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Use in Literature

Granite

But she was immovable as granite.–G. Mercer Adam in An Algonquin Maiden.

Certainly nine hundred years leave their traces on granite as well as on other material, but the granite of Abbot Hildebert would have stood securely enough, if the Abbot had not asked too much from it.–Henry Adams in Mont-Saint-Michel And Chartres.

We find no granite formations of character underlying the race, such as are met with in the tribes and peoples of Asia.–William Aikman in The Future of the Colored Race in America.

The institution was accidental and superficial, and never had any real root in the Granite State.–Thomas Bailey Aldrich in An Old Town By The Sea.

These granites show in their exterior no sign of pressure structure.–Roald Amundsen in The South Pole, vols 1 and 2.

Behind him is the cold, almost vertical slope of granite, and before his eyes the ocean is rocking heavily and dully in the impenetrable darkness.–Leonid Andreyev in The Crushed Flower and Other Stories.

In the meantime I waited, perched on a block of granite, with my telescope, watching every movement.–Samuel White Baker in Ismailia.

In vain I seized the mahout by the back of the neck and nearly dislocated his spine in the endeavour to compel him to move forward; he dug his pointed hook frantically into Thompson's head, but the animal was as rigid as a block of granite.–Samuel White Baker in Wild Beasts and their Ways, vol 1.

His face was of a dirty white, and his wrinkled skull, denuded of hair, bore a vague resemblance to a block of granite.–Honoré de Balzac in Ferragus.

It was granite, basalt, porphyry, with life and movement.–Honoré de Balzac in Cousin Betty.

• Preface vi
• Use in Literature 1
• Granite 1
• Granite – "Beach" 11
• Granite – "Beautiful" 12
• Granite – "Blocks" 12
• Granite – "Cliffs" 13
• Granite – "Close" 14
• Granite – "Colonists" 15
• Granite – "Columns" 15
• Granite – "Companion" 16
• Granite – "Country" 16
• Granite – "Cyrus" 17
• Granite – "Different" 18
• Granite – "Evening" 19
• Granite – "Far" 19
• Granite – "Foot" 20
• Granite – "Few" 21
• Granite – "Finding" 21
• Granite – "Great" 23
• Granite – "Hands" 24
• Granite – "Hard" 25
• Granite – "Herbert" 26
• Granite – "Hidden" 26
• Granite – "Hills" 27
• Granite – "House" 28
• Granite – "Human" 32
• Granite – "Island" 33
• Granite – "Large" 34
• Granite – "Little" 34
• Granite – "Looked" 35
• Granite – "Made" 36
• Granite – "Man" 39
• Granite – "Mass" 39
• Granite – "Mile" 41
• Granite – "Mount" 42
• Granite – "Mouth" 44
• Granite – "Nature" 45
• Granite – "Near" 45
• Granite – "Nothing" 46
• Granite – "Old" 46
• Granite – "Once" 47
• Granite – "Placed" 47
• Granite – "Presently" 48
• Granite – "Range" 49
• Granite – "Remaining" 50
• Granite – "Return" 50
• Granite – "Rises" 51
• Granite – "River" 52
• Granite – "Rock" 52
• Granite – "Ran" 56
• Granite – "Shore" 57
• Granite – "Side" 57
• Granite – "Southern" 58
• Granite – "Steps" 59
• Granite – "Strong" 60
• Granite – "Sun" 60
• Granite – "Thought" 61
• Granite – "Thus" 61
• Granite – "Veins" 62
• Granite – "Wall" 63
• Granite – "Water" 65
• Granite – "Windows" 65
• Granite – "Work" 66
• Nonfiction Usage 67
• Script Usage 67
• Journalism Usage 67
• Governmental Usage 75
• Patent Usage 76
• Bibliographic Usage 81
• Encyclopedic Usage 164
• Lexicographic Usage 176
• Index 216