The pillars sustaining the vaulted roofs, whose curves allowed of every style, the massive walls between the passages, the naves themselves in this layer of secondary formation, were composed of sandstone and schistous rocks.
Here Simon Ford had lived with his family ten years, in a subterranean dwelling, hollowed out in theschistous mass, where formerly stood the powerful engines which worked the mechanical traction of the Dochart pit.
The old overman stepped forward, and himself felt the schistous rock.
It stands upon a mass of schistous rock about fifty feet above the river.
And these prodigious slabs of gneiss now lay amidst schistousmarl and calcareous rock.
This was Ambialet, so called from the extraordinary loop which the Tarn forms here in consequence of the mass of schistous rock which obstructs its direct channel.
De Saussure found rocks of schistous amphiboles covered with vitreous bubbles, like those seen on tiles where struck by lightning.
Recovered from the shock, he went out of curiosity to look at the result, and saw the wall at the edge of the road, the schistous and chalky rocks, even the trees themselves, coated over with layers of brown.
It contains strata ofschistous and coppery marl (bituminoce mergel and kupferschiefer) which form an important object in the working of mines at Mansfeld in Saxony, near Riegelsdorf in Hesse, and at Hasel and Prausnitz, in Silesia.
From Anapa to Gagra, along the shores of the Black Sea, we observe a secondary chain composed of schistous mountains, seldom exceeding 1000 yards in height.
They are interrupted here and there by loam and schistous clay and horizontal beds of a kind of limestone: below these are lignites and chalky limestone, in which shells are found belonging to a later formation.
The greater portion of the naked surface of the land is formed of limestone and dolomites, which are closely related: there are also, on the lower levels, grey or red sands, among which schistousloams of uniform colour predominate.
The inhabitants of the schistous valley capture in the chase such a number of these musk deer, that you see nothing in their houses but the skins of these animals, hung on the walls by pegs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "schistous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
