chalkstone

How To Use chalkstone In A Sentence

• And about 50 meters into the canyon at this narrow section, I encountered a place where I was standing on top of a chalkstone with about a ten-foot elevation drop. CNN Transcript May 8, 2003
• A monumental effigy was also erected to him, "made of white chalkstone"; and this is almost certainly the figure now placed The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
• The building is constructed of basalt and chalkstone and made use of elements from an earlier structure on the site. Archive 2007-11-01
• With a piece of chalkstone picked from the rubble, I marked my path; but that was well-nigh the last glimmer of ordinary human sense in me, as I drew kilometer by kilometer near to my finality. The Day Of Their Return
• The white chalkstone glitters from afar; the light grey feldspar assumes a warm flesh tint; the limestone becomes straw color; the crystals of hornblende flash like fire-flies; and the veins of white quartz, running with their nodules of serpentine and chlorite through the dark clay-slate, gleam as do chain lightnings through the clouds. Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia
• Slates, chalkstones, limestones, granites and porphyries form these mountains. Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe
• And as I put a rotating torque force on that intermediate chalkstone that's the one that rotated. CNN Transcript May 8, 2003
• The walls were made of fragile chalkstone and had never been designed to withstand a serious attack. HARSHINI
• I down climbed off the main, top chalk stone, stood on the intermediate chalkstone and, at that point, saw that there was some good hand holds around the back side of the chalkstone. CNN Transcript May 8, 2003
• Extrication required amputation — Mr. Ralston 's left-handed severing of his right forearm, which was pinned between a chalkstone boulder and the canyon wall. Dark