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Example sentences for "grey granite"

  • It is an outcrop of grey granite, pigeon-holed by weather, and veined by a variety of dykes.

  • The one exception was the dwarf Umm Jedayl, a heap composed only of grey granite.

  • The gashes in the flank made by wind and rain disclose the core--grey granite or sandstone coloured by manganese.

  • A god and a queen, standing side by side, are roughly cut in a block of grey granite.

  • The royal statues of this period, which are nearly all in black or grey granite, have been for the most part usurped by kings of later date.

  • The beautiful little water-courses had all broken from their diamond chains, and came dancing and singing down the hills, between the cedar bushes, and the masses of grey granite, like merry children laughing as they run.

  • This consists of eight columns, six of red granite forming a front, and two side columns of grey granite.

  • Many fragments are to be seen here of the columns which supported the roof of the basilica, among which those of grey granite, probably belonging to the outer rows of columns, are most conspicuous.

  • Traces have been found of a front chamber with a portico of grey granite columns.

  • Close to where we sat were the great masses of rock that had fallen from the cliffs, and upon examination I found them to be the finest quality of grey granite, the feldspar being in masses several inches square and as hard as a flint.

  • The way is terribly trying, nothing but detritus and blocks of grey granite, against which the horses wear out their shoes.

  • Solid rock could not be found, but all the detritus and boulders were of grey granite; seldom was a piece of porphyry noticed.

  • Occasionally a small erratic block of grey granite is seen.

  • The path runs up steeply between huge blocks of grey granite, so that our Ladakis have to take care that the boxes do not get banged.

  • From the last platform the path plunges down headlong, so we descend on foot these steep slopes of grey granite rounded by wind and weather.

  • A stretch of almost level ground follows, and then at last the path rises steeply to the pass, which is strewn with innumerable blocks of grey granite.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    answered them; cotton blow; each stanza; family history; gave his only begotten; gentleman like; good supper; grey colour; grey granite; grey hair; grey hairs; grey stone; grey wolf; greyish brown; greyish white; hope they; human creatures; little ahead; long stem; marked beauty; naval construction; people should; should say; slave insurrection; take heede; you hear