The Hailstone Hill, near Rowley Church, is the best locality for varieties in texture and composition, as also for contemporaneous veins.
The hailstone descends again, receives a fresh coating, is carried up once more, refrozen, and again descends.
Thus the hailstone grows until the current is no longer strong enough to support it when it falls to the ground.
The comic meaning of the broken rhythm of Stradella's overture becomes indeed Handel's inspiration in the light of the gigantic tone-picture of the "Hailstone chorus.
This hailstone is said to have fallen upon the estate of Mr. Moffat of Ord.
We will only ask our readers to listen to one more hailstone story, in which it is related that during the reign of Tippoo, sultan, a hailstone fell as large as an elephant.
Undoubtedly one of two things was true regarding this latter story; it was either a very large hailstone or a very small elephant.
A hailstone is a curious formation of snow and ice, and most of the large hailstones are conglomerate in their composition.
Still another instance is recorded of a hailstone having fallen in 1849 of nearly twenty feet in circumference.
While at Harrowgate he accidentally met with Professor Hailstone from Cambridge, and appeared much delighted to see him.
My orderly picked up one hailstone outside and brought it in to us.
When we look upon every hailstone as God's hail, and upon every fragment of ice as his ice, how precious the watery diamonds become!
Even as the slinger distinctly sends the stone out of his sling, so the path of every hailstone is marked by the Divine power.
In orthodox terms I argue that a fair-sized hailstone falls from the clouds with velocity sufficient to warm it so that it would not take on even one layer of ice.
Fassig lists a quartz pebble, found in a hailstone (Bibliography, part 2-355).
Beddoes was a violent and uncompromising Plutonist, while Professor Hailstone was as decided a Neptunist.
Mr. Hailstone of Walton Hall died 1890, his wife some years earlier.
He bequeathed his topographical collections to the Chapter at York, where they are preserved as the "Hailstone Yorkshire Library.
The maximum possible size of a hailstone cannot be positively stated, but stones larger than a man's fist and weighing over a pound have several times been reported on good authority.
A record of these ups and downs in the life of a hailstone is seen in the concentric layers of clear and snowlike ice of which it is composed.
The famous collection of the late Mrs. Hailstonewas sold in 1909.
The result was extremely interesting to the collectors, as Mrs. Hailstone had collected specimen lengths of almost every known lace.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hailstone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
