It is the hell which Milton describes with such horrible accuracy; in its hot and cold regions, the anxious soul is alternately tossed from the ardors of hope to the petrifying rigors of doubt and dread.
The precious minutes were flying, however; the big chestnuts pawed the ground and flecked their impatient sides with foam; the coachman seemed to be slowly petrifying on the box, and the groom on the doorstep; and still the lady did not come.
The most common petrifying materials are calcite, silica, and pyrite.
Such are popularly known aspetrifying springs, although they merely incrust the objects and do not convert them into stone.
Illustration: The Petrifying Geyser, New Zealand] There is some wonderful vegetation in New Zealand and nowhere else will one find a greater variety of ferns.
This was Mrs. Booth's little parable, and while none of our hearts had been dipped in this petrifying spring, it woke us to new desires to do more for the suffering poor.
It was a petrifying spring, and everything dipped in its waters was presently coated with a fine, stony sediment and practically turned to stone.
So the deadly, petrifying spring of selfishness will turn the heart to stone, and while having the form of life it will be cold and hard and dead.
Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.
Any substance which has the quality of petrifying other bodies, or of converting or being converted into stone.
Had it been the Prioress herself, why then---- Few can remember the petrifying effect of a flash of sudden anger in the kindly eyes of Symon of Worcester.
It was not the first time this looking back had had a petrifying effect upon a woman.
Whenever they happened to meet, the earl greeted him with an elaborate bow, and a petrifying smile; but for the last seven years not one syllable had passed between them.
Greatness had lost its former petrifying influence over him.
At Wotton Basset, in the parke, is a petrifying water, which petrifies very quickly.
In the parish of North Wraxhall, at the upper end of ye orchard of Duncomb-mill at ye foot of ye hill ye water petrifies in some degree; which is the onely petrifying water that I know in this countie.
At the Devizes, about a quarter of a mile from the towne, a petrifying spring shewn me by Dr.
In subsequent pages Aubrey refers to otherpetrifying waters near Calne, Devizes, and elsewhere.
The mass soon concretes, and after being brushed over with a thin layer of the petrifying paste, may be polished with pumice, &c.
These lumps, being ground and sifted, afford a fine powder, which, when made up into a paste with the proper quantity of water, forms the petrifying ground.
Calcareous tuf consists of similar incrustations made by petrifying rivulets running over mud, sand, vegetable remains, &c.
Was sorrowful shame, or her infatuation for the adventurer he cursed in his heart by his gods, the influence that was petrifying her into this unlovely caricature of her once bright and affectionate self?
Generosity and pity were fast undoing the petrifying influences of her early disappointment, their mutual reserve, and tacit misunderstandings.
She has the most tiresome style of prettiness that can be conceived, with that alabaster paleness, that petrifying calmness of manner, and a heart like a cucumber!
There is the petrifying sneer of a demon, which excludes and kills love, and there is the cordial laughter of a man, which implies and cherishes it.
In the Avenue Victoria, behind the military hospital, and in front of the petrifying spring, is the H.
In a garden of a house in the Boulevard Victoria is a petrifying spring, containing a large quantity of the carbonate of lime.
Greatly pleased with this gift, the goddess set it in the center of her terrible AEgis, where it retained all its petrifying power, and served her in many a fight.
The osteoid sarcoma is characterised by the formation of a tissue resembling bone but deficient in lime salts, and the petrifying sarcoma by the formation of calcified areas in the stroma.
Admitting them, however, as petrifications, it is certain that there must once have existed a pond in which the petrifying water was contained; but the ground in their neighbourhood retained no positive traces of any such receptacle.
The freezing, appalling, petrifyingdullness of that book is quite astounding.
There is the petrifying sneer of a demon which excludes and kills Love, and there is the cordial laughter of a man which implies and cherishes it.
The "Dropping Well," one of the most noted petrifying springs in England, and so named on account of its percolating through the rock that hangs over it.
Tag-rag, starting back aghast, and almost petrifying his voluble and officious assistant.
Starvation and Despair, two fiends, seemed sitting beside him in shadowy ghastliness, chilling and palsying him--petrifying his heart within him.
One of these new-fashioned paints was called 'Petrifying Liquid', and was used for first-coating decaying stone or plaster work.
It was also supposed to be used for thinning up a certain kind of patent distemper, but when Misery found out that it was possible to thin the latter with water, the use of 'Petrifying Liquid' for that purpose was discontinued.
This 'Petrifying Liquid' was a source of much merriment to the hands.
