sienite

This is more properly to be called sienite, or syenitic granite, with felspar too abundant generally to make a firm and durable stone.

The Resources of North Carolina: Its Natural Wealth, Condition, and Advantages, as Existing in 1869. Presented to the Capitalists and People of the Central and Northern States 1869

Here and there only small rocks of granite, quartz or sienite interrupt the dreary uniformity of the plain.

Travels in Nubia 2004

Thus, the column of sienite from Charnwood Forest has a capital of the cocoa palm; the red granite of Ross, in Mull, is crowned with a capital of lilies; the beautiful marble of Marychurch has an exquisitely sculptured capital of ferns; -- and so through all the range of the arcades, new designs, studied directly from Nature, and combining art with science, have been executed by the workmen employed on the building.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various

They lingered around the rocks in their path, black with fringes of dry sea-weed, and talked of gneiss and sienite, granite and trap; they stopped at the curve in the shore, and sat down to watch the white flitting of sails on the far horizon-line, and somehow, the sight of them led to a long talk about

Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord

To let the sailors go ashore with us, we drew up the boat on the rock several feet, and made it fast with a line knotted into a crevice between two fragments of flinty sienite rock at the foot of the crags.

Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' 1887

On the west it was separated from the island below it -- a high, black dome of sienite -- by

Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' 1887

More than half the surface was bare as black sienite could be.

Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' 1887

A few of the early settlers used freestone or sienite, or

Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

He visited finally the city of Sunnu, situated at the first cataract of the Nile, and visited the immense quarries, granite and sienite, where rocks were split off with wooden wedges on which the quarrymen poured water which swelled them, and thus obelisks one hundred and thirty feet high were detached from the face of the quarry.

The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt Boles��aw Prus 1879

On them we found the only gravel bed we saw in Labrador, and yet their name is due to the rough piled basaltic appearing rock, that proved on close examination to be much weathered sienite and granite.

Bowdoin Boys in Labrador An Account of the Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador led by Prof. Leslie A. Lee of the Biological Department Jonathan Prince Cilley 1877