The outcropping and visible rock is but small in extent compared with the rock that is underlying and invisible.
As man combines the laws of chemical attraction and of combustion, to fire the gunpowder and split the rock asunder, so God may combine the laws of nature to bring about answers to prayer.
No wonder that as the wind ruffled the yellow waters the waves seemed to lift their unclean hands toward the rock whereon the fallen man lay, as if eager to snatch him from it, too, and hurry him toward the sea.
It looked upon formless masses of rock and shrubbery, wide spaces of lawn and beach, and a shimmering expanse of water.
The claim worked by Johnson in his intervals of sobriety was represented by half a dozen rude openings in the mountain-side, with the heaped-up debris of rock and gravel before the mouth of each.
They were in an old tin box in a crevice of a rock above his head.
The rock was bare and the man was gone, but the river still hurried swiftly to the sea.
Nor does he perceive that the truth of the Christian rock is clouded over by him, and in a manner abolished, who thus betrays and deserts unity.
And upon this Rock I will build my Church; not upon Peter, which thou art, but upon the Rock which thou hast confessed.
It required very little for her to forget the slights and the coldness of her husband’s affection: her love was like the tide covering a barren rock; the sea breaks into waves and is dispersed in foam, while the rock remains ever unchanged.
She recalled the passion that had thrown her blindly into Edward’s arms, her bitter humiliation when she realised that he could not respond to her ardour; her love was a fire playing ineffectually upon a rock of basalt.
A vase of rock crystal, set in precious stones, seen today, could never have belonged to aught but some beauty, for whom it was selected by an adoring lover or husband, ere yet the honeymoon had passed.
I'd like to set the goat free, only he'd eat the rock plants.
And she was silent, ceasing to rock herself; letting him smooth and stroke her.
Had she energy or spirit to meet him in the afternoon by the rock archway, as she had promised?
VI On the wild thyme, under the olives below the rock village of Gorbio, with their mules cropping at a little distance, those two sat after their lunch, listening to the cuckoos.
The cab, moving at unaccustomed speed along these deserted roads, moaned dismally; and Barbara was possessed now by a desire which she dared not put in practice, to pull his head down, and rock it against her.
I found the point of rock where the cascade of ivy flows down the cliff; the ledge on which she had climbed was a little to my right--a mad place.
The world seemed to rockand sway; to dance up, and be flung flat again.
She was close above the shore before she saw him standing in the rock archway, looking for her across the beach.
The combe ends in a sandy cove with black rock on one side, pinkish cliffs away to the headland on the other, and a coastguard station.
I do not know what to say to her," he muttered, and slowly he began to rock himself.
Then suddenly from behind a rock there crawled out a strange figure.
A much harassed brigadier sat behind a rock near the telephone awaiting the answer to his urgent demand for guns.
The property of the freedman Pyrrhus was a flat rock in the northern part of the harbour, scarcely larger than the garden of Didymus at the Corner of the Muses, a desolate spot where neither tree nor blade of grass grew.
Octavianus and his Agrippa are the conquerors; but if a rock mutilates or an elephant's clumsy foot crushes me, I am nevertheless of a higher quality than either.
But Antony must help me to heap fresh obstacles in the pathway, and when he wishes to use his giant strength, what masses ofrock his mighty arm can hurl!
Under this rock of lava, which is more than seventy feet high, there is a stratum of pumice and ashes.
For a few seconds the rock beside him was not more steady.
After they had passed beyond the point of rock before referred to, Lawrence's curiosity prompted him to turn back and peep round.
Enormous masses of rock were torn up and scattered around.
This transformation of limestone into gypsum is analogous to the penetration of rock salt and sulphur, the latter being deposited from sulphureted aqueous vapor.
Sometimes the erupted rock has not transformed the compact into granular limestone to any great depth from the point of contact.
I have also seen on the edge of the crater of Vesuvius, fissures filled with rock salt, which occurred in such considerable masses as occasionally to lead to its being disposed of by contraband trade.
When basaltic islands and trachytic rocks rise on fissures, friction of the elevated rock against the walls of the fissures causes the elevated rock to be inclosed by conglomerates composed of its own matter.
A few hundred yards farther up the hill, and passing on our left the road which leads to Liberton, we reach the highest point, where the road is cut through the solid rock which forms the westmost spur of the Braid Hills.
It was dug out of the soft sandstone rock in the last century by a man named George Paterson.
He now led them out to a rock in one of the fields, and ordered them to fall to work at blasting, hewing, and dragging stones.
The first blow, though the lightest, would have killed me had it fallen on me, but I put a rock in my place which you did not see.
Afterwards, to make all still more secure, they tied the end of the chain, which came through the rock to a great stone called Keviti, which they sank still deeper.
He had been there about ten months when one day he saw something snow-white gliding into a rock and disappearing.
Lawless, pointing to a ledge of rock not far away.
You felt that it had no part in the career of the village on either side, but was like a rock in a channel, at which a swimmer caught or a vagrant fish loitered.
He stands apart from me, as a rock from the tree that grows out from its chasms.
If that old woman had been able to sleep, and hadn't sent that boy down to warn the train, we should have run into the rock and been dashed to pieces.
The detached mound of rock on which it stood rose like an island in the midst of the plain, and commanded the highways in every direction.
Great blocks and shapeless fragments of rock strewed the margin of the awful torrent; gloomy walls of dark stone rose naked from these, bearded here and there with cedar, and everywhere frowning with shaggy brows of evergreen.
But on a sudden thrills from the people still and pale, Chorussing his unheard despair, a desperate wail Caught on a lurking point of rock it sways and swings, Sport of the pitiless waters, the raft to which he clings.
I'm so glad I haven't been in the Cave of the Winds; I'm so happy that Table Rock fell twenty years ago!
In the Bierhauagarten I linger By the Falls of the Geneses: From the Table-Rock in the middle Leaps a figure bold and free.
In his ears had rung the sweet, alluring song, and what had terrified him had not been the dangerous rock or the depths beneath the billows, but the prize itself!
It was but a short distance from them, and an immense scale of overhanging rock quivered for an instant, then fell, throwing its fragments in every direction.
By this time, they had reached the main road, and as Morgan seated himself on a rock to finish his story, Houston followed his example.
Houston, bending over him in the darkness, and removing as fast as possible the mass of crushed and broken rock under which he lay.
Suddenly the rocks by which they were surrounded began to quiver and vibrate; there was a deafening roar followed by a terrific crash, and an instant later, a mass of loosened rock was tearing its way through the shaft.
Jack and Houston sprang in opposite directions, but the pieces of flying rock overtook them, though they escaped being buried beneath the mass as it fell.
Yes, we had quite a long consultation together yesterday, he and Rivers and I, and we decided that it would pay to do some extensive drifting in those mines, and a good deal of that rock will have to be blasted.
I guess I'll find out what in the devil this means," he said to himself, as he paused behind a rock at a little distance, determined to ascertain what he could regarding their movements.
So absorbed was he in the study of the masses of rock about him, on which had been traced by the finger of the centuries, in wonderful hieroglyphics, the early history of the earth, that for a time he was unconscious of her presence there.
After they have blasted a ways, we can tell something from the character of the rock in what direction it will be best to run the drift.
As Houston and Van Dorn disappeared around a turn in the road, the figure of Haight emerged into the starlight from behind a large rock where he had been concealed most of the time during their stay at the cabin.
When a vessel leaves the port she may either pass between this rock and the shore, giving a birth to a shoal about one hundred yards to the northward, or she may run between the rock and the principal ridge or reef.
The stone or rock is large, and stands in the middle of the bed of a river, which is quite dry in the summer.
He had recollected a cleft in a rock at some distance, and had gone to see if any yet remained in it.
To the northward of the town, between the reef and the shore, there is a rock called Pedra da Velha, or the Old Woman’s Rock, which is to be seen even at high water by the breakers upon it.
Anxious to observe them, he mounted on the top of an elevated rock which advanced into the river, and he saw one walking at the bottom of the water.
Mr. Charlesworth refers to the fact that, in one species of shell, not only does the hole in the rock which the animal occupies increase in size, but also the hole through which it projects its syphons.
But here I must sit alone by the rock of the mossy stream.
Oh, from the rock on the hill, from the top of the windy steep, speak, ye ghosts of the dead!
His hat was afterward found on the point of a rock overhanging the valley; and it is inconceivable how he could have climbed to the summit on such a dark, tempestuous night without losing his life.
I have even refused to dispense the sacrament to him unless he relented, but I might as well have expended my energies on The Ghoul Rock out there at the opening to the Bay.
We crossed the Island once more, and I got on to a rock which dipped sheer and deep into the sea.
The rock was connected to the shore by a well-built, wooden wharf on piles, which ran directly into what I rightly guessed had been the summer home of Mrs. Horsfal.
I could see the rock cod and little shiners down there, darting about on a breakfast hunt.
She was well aware of my proximity, and, at last, when we were little more than a hundred yards from the point of the rock at the farthest out end of the wharf, she wheeled on me like the exasperated sea-nymph she was.
She scrambled up the rock and returned in half a minute with a pair of stout leather gloves on her hands.
For a while, I gazed at the horrible rockin fascination.
I let myself go, down the smooth shelving rock upon which I had been lying.
She reached over, picked them up, then sat on a rockby the water's edge and pulled them on her feet.
Jake swears to this day that she belonged to the launch party, who must have run sheer into The Ghoul Rock and gone down.
They put the hen's head under her wing and gently rock her to and fro till she apparently goes to sleep, when she may be carried to another nest and will remain there afterward.
The subject may be placed with his head upon the back of one chair and his heels on the back of another, and a heavy man may sit upon him without seemingly producing any effect, or even heavy rock may be broken on the subject's body.
Cole arrives first, and as I come thrashing through the bushes he sits on a rock munching some burnt flour.
Walking down the great blocks of rock which form the shore, the river appeared to narrow and at 11.
The main stream turns off sharply to the northeast and after a few miles passes into a deep canon, christened "Bowdoin Canon," between precipitous walls of archeac rock from six hundred to eight hundred feet high.
I went on easily, and on the way I came upon a flatrock a foot or two above water.
She began torock herself slightly, while she knitted.
We landed the enormous packing-case with difficulty on a flat piece of rock amongst some bushes, nearly knocking the bottom out of one of my boats in the course of that nautical operation.
If the cobble drives on shore, the current will take a boat as light as she is over the Bogie Rock and into the surf yonder.
The waves buffeted him, and flung him down, and lifted him up, but he was a fine surf swimmer, and he knew every rock on that dangerous coast.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
