Usage examples (32)

• Germoe till last century, when they were broken up for road-metal, and that they consisted of a kind of gritstone common enough to the Crowza
• The two colossi on the plain of Thebes are, of course, hard gritstone.
• The Kinder Scout plateau is a more or less flat slab of gritstone overlain by a thick layer of peat.
• It is of gritstone, but has been much altered and repaired at later periods, when limestone has been used.