He had stuck a piece ofstalactite between the jaws, so that the goats and cows timidly ran away, scared by the new ornament.
But when his Waltari had bravely conquered all dangers and deathly wounds,--then, he gave a shout of delight which made the stalactitewalls of his cavern, reecho.
The stalactite cavern of Han in the Ardennes is visited yearly by crowds.
Within is a bench cut in the rock, and the roof is encrusted with stalactite formations like cauliflowers.
The Hall of the Abencerrages has fine stalactite arches, and a bewildering wealth of decoration.
The beautiful stalactite grottos are all made of crystals of lime.
He then sets about combining metals with sulphur in the moist way, as if that were any more to his purpose than is the making of a stalactite for the explanation of marble.
The places where these false appearances of stalactite are found, are precisely those in which, from the nature of things, all possibility for such an operation is excluded.
It contains beautiful stalactite formations, and seems to be of considerable extent; it has, however, not been closely examined hitherto, as only a small part is conveniently accessible.
In this upper cavern we saw some tall and beautiful stalactite pillars.
In some cases the points of inverted cones of stalactite rested on the centres of pillars of stalagmite.
Trieste, with a large stalactite cavern, besides numerous caves near it.
Lisbon; has a good trade in wine, salt, and oranges; in the neighbourhood is a remarkable stalactite cave.
Pesth, in Hungary with vast stalactite caverns, some of them of great height.
In places where the drip is continuous the stalactite gradually assumes the shape of an immense icicle; while the stalagmite on the floor of the cave, underneath the drip, rises in a columnar mass to meet the descending stalactite.
It will be seen that, at one place, the stalactite has united with the stalagmite below.
Bather let me call it a curtain of rare lace cut out in marble, a screen of transparent ivory, a light stalactite roof of some fairy grotto!
The grottoes and stalactite caverns of this combe are curious alike within and without, and in their inmost recesses is a small lake, the depth of which has never yet been sounded.
Both lake and stalactite caves, however, can only be seen at certain seasons of the year, and then with difficulty.
Though no doubt they are curious and wonderful, one is apt, after having done a certain amount of grottoes and stalactite caverns in various parts of the world, to say, when the words "How marvellous!
The funnel, Rory declared, looked like a stalactite from "the cave of a thousand winters.
At the same time, stalactite vaulting was rarely employed, whilst horizontal courses of corbels or arches in which each stone projects slightly beyond that on which it rests, were used as supports for the domes instead of pendentives.
These doorways are placed in a rectangular recess roofed with thestalactite vault.
And he waved his hat around towards the stalactite walls and ceiling of the cavern, now burning, sparkling, blazing, in the reflected light of the candles.
The Arabic stalactite pendentive star-panelling and geometrical interlace are rarely if ever seen.
The vaulting is most ingenious and beautiful, and its forms, whether executed in brick or in plaster, are sufficiently varied without resort to the perplexing complications ofstalactite work.
I am a stranger in these parts, having left the train that goes to New York, because I heard there were some marvelous caves of stalactite formation in this mountain.
The other must be the tube that leads to the stalactite cave," said Mrs. Vernon.
Under the window was a rock of stalactite formation, shaped like an arch, from which trickled a little stream falling into a basin overhung by two arum lilies whose cups were as white as angels' wings.
Then a man got up by the apsis and stood there half hidden by the stalactite rock.
On a declivity towards the sea, is the beautiful stalactite cavern of Brando, not long since discovered.
Now we come to his Satanic Majesty's "Armchair," which is the name given to a splendid stalactite column in the centre of a chamber, and which on one side forms an excellent seat.
As we go along we see on the roof of the avenue the most beautifulstalactite formations--rosettes, &c.
We must not forget the Diamond Grotto, where, by holding your lamp behind you, a never-ending profusion of sparkling diamonds is seen among the stalactite beauties.
About ten or twelve feet high are the pillars, and the stalactite formations are still going on in some of them.
The stalactite formations are still going on in the grotto, for the water is constantly oozing through, and many a crystal drop may be seen hanging from the end of the bunch of beauties already formed.
The stalactite pillars are all opposite to each other, as if they were really supporting the roof.
Before entering it, however, Stephen takes our lamps, and leaves us in the dark for a time, while he goes and places them on the stalactite pillar in the chapel.
In this way, a stalactite looking like an icicle in stone gradually grows downwards.
Little is added to little, and in the course of ages the stalagmite grows upward from the floor and ultimately meets the stalactite to form a continuous column of glistening crystallized calcium carbonate.
Most wondrous of all there are a million stalactite figures in miniature that appear to be in a pandemonium of outlandish contortions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stalactite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crust; drapery; incrustation; pendant; scab; scale; shell; stone
