The ancient Egyptians called the loadstone the bone of Haroeri, and iron the bone of Typhon. From Wordnik.com. [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference
To-morrow, by the end of the day, we shall come to a mountain of black stone, called loadstone, for thither the currents bear us perforce. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I] Reference
They lit their pipes, put a specimen of the coal on the table, and made it a kind of loadstone of thought and conversation. From Wordnik.com. [The Gilded Age A tale of today] Reference
"loadstone" (magnetic iron ore) seems first to have been found. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
What principle is there, why a loadstone attracts iron?. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference
The loadstone of love touches it, and finds it mere brass. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
He could move me as a loadstone moves a speck of steel. From Wordnik.com. [The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid] Reference
Then the heap of money was a loadstone for all their hungry eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
Pulo Bongorong, near Borneo Proper, there is plenty of loadstone found. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
A piece of iron, which is inanimate, runs towards a piece of loadstone. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
These men that now so flock around us; would find some other loadstone. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
The following sentence was neatly cut in the loadstone that was on the left. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Swift's loadstone was a magnification of William Gil - bert's famous dipping needle. From Wordnik.com. [COSMIC VOYAGES] Reference
The hearts of the soldiers of France went to him like steel to the loadstone -- first. From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
They had a principle that operated like a loadstone in bringing the factions together. From Wordnik.com. [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference
His extensive discussion includes bodies as various as the loadstone, plants, and insects. From Wordnik.com. [Antoine Le Grand] Reference
Ethelberta single having been the loadstone in the cliffs that had attracted Ladywell hither. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand of Ethelberta] Reference
But what is the reason the air never draws a stone, nor wood, but iron only, to the loadstone?. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
How comes a loadstone to draw iron to it? jet chaff? the ground to covet showers, but for love?. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
From time immemorial I have been the loadstone of credulity, and -- I am altogether defenceless. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
M. Formey, secretary of the academy of Berlin, explains this phenomenon by that of the loadstone. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
That shop, which was dark and smelt of Bibles, was a loadstone rock for all that bore the name of boy. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Portraits] Reference
Not a loadstone ... unless something peculiar happened between the British and U.S. editions of the book. From Wordnik.com. [Weird Stones] Reference
Near it a reservoir had been fashioned of four sorts of stone — touchstone, pure stone, marble, and loadstone. From Wordnik.com. [The Brown Fairy Book] Reference
She has been like a loadstone drawing me back to her, when in my pride I would have rejoiced to feel myself free. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces] Reference
There is much worry and misery in the world because so many are astatic, like a compass that has lost its loadstone. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
And neither amber nor the loadstone draws anything to it which is near, nor does anything spontaneously approach them. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
The Arabian Nights 'story of the mountain which consisted of a single loadstone finds its literal fulfilment in Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
Thus spake the iron to the loadstone: “I hate thee most, because thou attractest, but art too weak to draw unto thee.”. From Wordnik.com. [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference
You were here, I came because there is a loadstone within you, that is my heart's sole attraction, and I must follow my heart. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The power of the loadstone to attract iron was known to the ancient Egyptians, but it was not applied to any practical purpose. From Wordnik.com. [A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.] Reference
As truly as the loadstone draws iron towards it, so he, lying at the bottom of his grave, could draw me near him when he would. From Wordnik.com. [Barnaby Rudge] Reference
On the loadstone that was placed on the right side the following iambic verse was curiously engraven in ancient Roman characters. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
She is the loadstone that attracts men of iron, gallants and roarers, where they cleave sometimes long, and are not easily got off. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Rose sauntered after, by-and-by, as if unwillingly drawn by a loadstone, and found the heavens wrapped in a rosy flame of Northern Lights. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
Caithness lay the loadstone which had brought Raspe to Scotland. From Wordnik.com. [The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen] Reference
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