argil

The valley-sides of dark trap were striped with white veins of heat-altered argil; the sole with black magnetic sand; and patches of the bed were buttercup-yellow with the Handán (dandelion), the

The Land of Midian 2003

Of flint or silex, lime or calcareous earth, and clay or argil, in various degrees of combination, the greatest parts of the mountains and plains, and the whole of what we commonly understand by soil, mould, earth, &c. are composed.

A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. Anonymous

So they toiled up the stiff and slippery slope, and found a scatter of crate-huts crowning a bald head of yellow argil.

To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855

The valley-sides of dark trap were striped with white veins of heat-altered argil; the sole with black magnetic sand; and patches of the bed were buttercup-yellow with the Handán

The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

It was no slight task, before pasting on the labels, to know the names of the rocks; the variety of colours and of grain made them confuse argil and marl, granite and gneiss, quartz and limestone.

Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850

The argil lamps, suspended below these images, shed a flickering light.

Tentation de saint Antoine. English Gustave Flaubert 1850

A table in the centre exhibited curiosities of the rarest description: the shell of a Cauchoise cap, two argil urns, medals, and a phial of opaline glass.

Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850

"In 1715," relates Dom Martin, "one Sieur Heribel exhumed in the vicinity of Bayeux, several argil vases full of bones, and concluded (in accordance with tradition and authorities which had disappeared) that this place, a necropolis, was the Mount Faunus in which the Golden Calf is buried."

Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850

So rich is the dark-colored tenacious argil of the

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829

In the argil are imbedded small crystals of hornblende, or of mica, and thin pieces of quartz at most two lines square.

Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 1822