The same kind of petrifaction is to be seen, it is said, at the hot springs of. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia] Reference
"A petrifaction was a kind of a hard-wood chemical git-up.". From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilderness] Reference
On the way back to Moscow he relapsed again into a state of petrifaction. From Wordnik.com. [Dream tales and prose poems] Reference
There is petrifaction of the understanding; and also of the sense of shame. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Sayings of Epictetus] Reference
How long ago was it since he had thought himself in a state of peaceful petrifaction?. From Wordnik.com. [A House of Gentlefolk] Reference
Later, I played my part in the establishment and the petrifaction of the two zones in Europe. From Wordnik.com. [An Open Letter to the Secretary General] Reference
'If she is not at the Rooms to-night,' said Sir Sedley, 'I shall be stupified to petrifaction. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
This, then, was not a natural petrifaction, operated by asphaltus and salt, but an evident miracle. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Because the fruits were of all types but tended to be overripe, a bit of petrifaction improved them. From Wordnik.com. [Question Quest]
Mark Twain parodied petrifaction hoaxes with his account of the discovery of one, which some newspapers took as a true story. From Wordnik.com. [When Giants Roamed the Earth] Reference
The trees, burdened with the last infinitesimal pennyweight of snow their branches could hold, stood in absolute petrifaction. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter IV] Reference
They are not a chain, as most Eastern people imagine them, but a giant ocean caught by petrifaction at the moment of maddest tempest. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference
The complementary belief in the possibility of the petrifaction of men and animals has a similarly extensive geographical distribution. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
It was explained to me by several Manóbos that pointing at the dwelling place of these spirits might result in petrifaction of the arm. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Something like a petrifaction of her wildest face was shown. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
Organization means creed, and creed means petrifaction and tyranny. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews] Reference
Without doubt he was suffering from some process of moral petrifaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Rough Road] Reference
"The chemistry of the process of petrifaction or silicification," writes. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the National Parks] Reference
It was like a petrifaction of a human face in the softest moment of passion. From Wordnik.com. [Liber Amoris, or, the New Pygmalion] Reference
I chose to kill the petrifaction mania with a delicate, a very delicate satire. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches New and Old] Reference
This petrifaction of egoism would from amazedly to austerely refuse the petition. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Your jealousy will not take alarm at the prospect of a rival petrifaction at your side?. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03] Reference
Of the older writers Hellwigius, Horstius, and Schurig speak of petrifaction of the arm. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
But, everything here is kept with such trimness that it gives you the idea of a petrifaction. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference
Girl's suddenly stiffening from the toes upward, and glaring among us like a parochial petrifaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English] Reference
From day to day he noted the change, like that of a gradual petrifaction, which went on in her face. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Heidenhoff's Process] Reference
She is not quite so far gone in petrifaction as Aunt, although she gets a little stonier every year. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903] Reference
Advise them to be burnt at the stake at once, rather than submit to this slow process of petrifaction. From Wordnik.com. [Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman.] Reference
What is determinable and more to our purpose is the subsequent process of dissolution, or petrifaction. From Wordnik.com. [Together] Reference
For when her heart had begun to grow cold in the process of petrifaction, there had awakened a new faculty, -- her mind. From Wordnik.com. [Together] Reference
But, indeed, that Sunday evening reading was the one thing that saved my life from growing, or settling, into a petrifaction. From Wordnik.com. [Daisy] Reference
There seems to be a life and infinity in the incomplete, which the determinate excludes by its own completeness and petrifaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory] Reference
With the look that Margaret gave her husband, he might have seen that the process of petrifaction had set in, had gone far, indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Together] Reference
The process of petrifaction requires some months, or perhaps a year or two, varying with the size of the article to be operated upon. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference
A horse's head was in process of petrifaction; and J----- bought a broken eggshell for a penny, though larger articles are expensive. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference
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