The valley-sides of dark trap were striped with white veins of heat-altered argil; the sole with black magnetic sand; and patches of the bed were buttercup-yellow with the Handán (dandelion), the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian] Reference

Of flint or silex, lime or calcareous earth, and clay or argil, in various degrees of combination, the greatest parts of the mountains and plains, and the whole of what we commonly understand by soil, mould, earth, &c. are composed.    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

So rich is the dark-colored tenacious argil of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference

Mica slate has still more argil in it, and decomposes more rapidly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

The argil lamps, suspended below these images, shed a flickering light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tentation de saint Antoine. English] Reference

A table in the centre exhibited curiosities of the rarest description: the shell of a Cauchoise cap, two argil urns, medals, and a phial of opaline glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life] Reference

The valley-sides of dark trap were striped with white veins of heat-altered argil; the sole with black magnetic sand; and patches of the bed were buttercup-yellow with the Handán.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian — Volume 2] Reference

And that the uniformity of the mixture of the original earths, as of lime, argil, silex, magnesia, and barytes, which they contain, was owing to their boiling together a longer or shorter time before their elevation into mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference

Near the edge of the valley there lie scattered on the sand considerable portions of flinty slate; and amid the common clay, which forms the basis of the soil, are perpendicular layers of a lamellated brown argil, assuming, as it were, the slaty structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time] Reference

"In 1715," relates Dom Martin, "one Sieur Heribel exhumed in the vicinity of Bayeux, several argil vases full of bones, and concluded (in accordance with tradition and authorities which had disappeared) that this place, a necropolis, was the Mount Faunus in which the Golden Calf is buried.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life] Reference

"winter-brooks," the red porphyritic trap, heat-altered argil, easily distinguished by its fracture from the syenites of the same hue, appeared to be iron-clad, coated with a thin crust of shiny black or brown peroxide (?).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian — Volume 1] Reference

“winter-brooks,” the red porphyritic trap, heat-altered argil, easily distinguished by its fracture from the syenites of the same hue, appeared to be iron-clad, coated with a thin crust of shiny black or brown peroxide (?).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian] Reference

Clay or argil, 154.    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

Stretch the vast beds of argil, lime, and sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes] Reference

Arab-o = Arab. arane-o = spider. arangx-i = to arrange. arb-o = tree. arbitraci-i = to arbitrate. ardez-o = slate (stone). aren-o = arena. arest-i = to arrest. argil-o = clay. argument-i = to argue. argxent-o = silver (metal). arhxitektur-o = architecture.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Complete Grammar of Esperanto] Reference