Granite

(noun.) something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness); 'a man of granite'.

(noun.) plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture; generally composed of feldspar and mica and quartz.

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• How do Big Buildings Get their Granite? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The broad pavement in front shone pale also; it gleamed as if some spell had transformed the dark granite to glistering Parian. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The old market-square was not very large, a mere bare patch of granite setts, usually with a few fruit-stalls under a wall. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Moreover, he put granite in the same cat egory, and believed it had been injected, as also metalliferous veins, in liquid st ate into the stratified rocks. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• On our left were the granite-ribbed domes of old Spain. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It is the granite formation, which lies deepest, and rises out, even to the tops of the highest mountains. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Granite is not rich in mineral ores. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In his judgment granite was a primitive rock formed previous to animal and vegetable life (hence without organic remains) by chemical precipitation. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Granite supplies the most durable materials for building, as many of the ancient Egyptian monuments testify. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The meanest streets are strewed with truncated columns, broken capitals--Corinthian and Ionic, and sparkling fragments of granite or porphyry. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Iron gates between granite pillars showed me where to enter, and passing through them, I found myself at once in the twilight of close-ranked trees. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• In this manner, after much labour, the rock was prepared to receive the blocks of granite, which were laid one on the other, till they rose above the surface of the water. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• On that granite pedestal a cast-iron pier was raised to a height of 100 feet, the level of the roadway of the rails. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The decomposed felspar of some varieties of granite yields the kaolin used in porcelain manufacture. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• If his supposition were correct, then granite would be found sending out veins from its large masses to pierce the stratifi ed rocks and to crop out where stratum meets stratum. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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