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• Certain bodies -- as, for instance, the iron ore called loadstone, the earth itself, and pieces of steel which have been subjected to certain treatment -- are found to possess the following properties, and are called magnets. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
• One of these was loadstone which is basically a chunk of naturally occurring iron which has somehow in the course of the earth's long history obtained a magnetic orientation.
• There is much worry and misery in the world because so many are astatic, like a compass that has lost its loadstone. Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep
• I unclasped the shagreen case; the sergent-de-ville and the gendarme stole up and looked over my shoulder; the garçon drew near with round eyes; the little woman peeped across; the merchant, with tears streaming over his face, gazed as if it had been a loadstone; finally, I looked myself. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
• In the card is a long steel needle, and the point of it is rubbed with a stuff called loadstone, and it takes the card round and round, and always points to the north. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading
• Now, by the hidden and admirable power of the loadstones, the steel plates were put into motion, and consequently the gates were slowly drawn; however, not always, but when the said loadstone on the outside was removed, after which the steel was freed from its power, the two bunches of scordium being at the same time put at some distance, because it deadens the magnes and robs it of its attractive virtue. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
• You must know that some few hundred years ago, people discovered that a mineral called the loadstone, found in iron mines, had the quality of always pointing to the North, and they found, too, that any iron rubbed with it would possess the same quality. The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; the Boy and the Book; and Crystal Palace
• On this occasion, she witnessed several experiments of "colours, loadstones, microscopes" and was "full of admiration", although according to Pepys, her dress was "so antic and her deportment so unordinary" that the fellows were made strangely uneasy. The Royal Society's lost women scientists
• O my lord, he replied, know that we have wandered from our course since the commencement of the contrary wind that was followed in the morning by a calm, in consequence of which we remained stationary two days; from that period we have deviated from our course for twenty-one days, and we have no wind to carry us back from the fate which awaits us after this day: to-morrow we shall arrive at a mountain of black stone, called loadstone: the current is now bearing us violently towards it, and the ships will fall in pieces, and every nail in them will fly to the mountain, and adhere to it; for God hath given to the loadstone a secret property by virtue of which everything of iron is attracted toward it. Nights 9-18. The Story of the Third Royal Mendicant.
• Thus, the power of drawing iron is one of the ideas of the complex one of that substance we call a loadstone; and a power to be so drawn is a part of the complex one we call iron: which powers pass for inherent qualities in those subjects. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding