Those here are of reddish variegated, hardened sandstone, with madrepore holes in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference

The madrepore pier had been nearly swept away, and the houses near the water were flooded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

“Still assuming that I am an individual, and human, and not a madrepore of linked beans.” byssus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ready for the SAT « So Many Books] Reference

“And once again, her skirt, the oriflamme of her hair – but seen, as always, from the back.” madrepore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ready for the SAT « So Many Books] Reference

All around is a sea of mounds covered with sand, where the houses stood, mostly built of madrepore, and laid out in streets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

Aleck continued, gleefully, whilst I drew in line, and my kite slowly descended; "we shall have time for the sailing match, and madrepore hunt, and the caverns -- everything!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the White-Rock Cove] Reference

The number of houses in Souakin is about six hundred, of which two-thirds are in ruins, for the madrepore with which they are built soon decays, unless constantly kept in repair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Nubia] Reference

The flat ground for miles inland is composed of nothing but madrepore, and is covered with semi-fossilised sea-shells, which have probably not been inhabited for thousands of years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

The sand, some 14 feet in depth, which originally surrounded the building, has been washed away, allowing the sea free access to the foundation caisson, which is down 14 feet into the solid madrepore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report on the Department of Ports and Harbours for the Year 1890-91] Reference

We now placed the chama shells, the crabs, and other shell-fish, together with Johnny's specimens, to which he had added a splendid madrepore vase, in the boat, and as soon as the swimmers were dressed, we pulled over to Palm-islet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

I went ashore the second day, and sat in a sort of audience-arbour near the madrepore pier, and many maps were drawn on the ground with camel-sticks, and we were quite proud that my husband was able to settle it all with no interpreter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

Without any doubt, it is the most original building in the world; it recalls nothing that you have ever seen and it belongs to no style whatever: you might call it a gigantic madrepore, a colossal formation of crystals, or a grotto of stalactites inverted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference

Like a madrepore if mesmerized, in rapt catalepsy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heptalogia] Reference

But it would be like dissecting a 'polypus' or a 'madrepore' to enter into explanation with her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

The sub-soil of Paris, if the eye could penetrate its surface, would present the aspect of a colossal madrepore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference

The town proper of Jidda is built of madrepore and stone, and is more cleanly than Eastern cities generally are.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Autobiography of Nicholas Said; a Native of Bornou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa] Reference

This is a great mass of madrepore, and in the living state every one of the ends of these branches was terminated by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coral and Coral Reefs] Reference

Third picture: in shallow seas have sprung up isles of madrepore; a cluster of palm trees overhangs them here and there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life] Reference

I could observe groups and clusters of coloured coral and madrepore - stone, whose magnificence challenges all description.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Journey Round the World] Reference

We found in this place, in the dry bed of an old stream, innumerable fossils in the limestone, principally shells and madrepore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage] Reference

And I was at the lowest point of created life; a madrepore rooted to the rock, fathoms below the tide-mark; and worst of all, my individuality was gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography] Reference

No buildings of ancient date are observed in Djidda, the madrepore being of such a nature that it rapidly decays when exposed to the rain and moist atmosphere prevalent here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred] Reference

Fixed to a piece of madrepore, this seaweed vegetates at the bottom of the ocean, at the depth of 192 feet, notwithstanding which we found its leaves as green as those of our grasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

They are encased in a formation of madrepore breccia, which the negroes call God's masonry, and which, like the travertin of Italy, envelops fragments of vases and other objects created by human skill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference

The second part may have been some corraline or madrepore growing in shallow water, the coriaccous part of which, and the animals residing in the cells, may have resembled the bark and leaves of a plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08] Reference

As the branches are open, this would not be equivalent to more than half an inch in height of solid coral for the whole surface covered by the madrepore; and, as they are also porous, to not over three-eighths of an inch of solid limestone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography and Selected Essays] Reference

This is a great mass of madrepore, and in the living state every one of the ends of these branches was terminated by a beautiful little polype, like a sea anemone, and all the skeleton was covered by a soft body which united the polypes together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

"Suakim is built of madrepore," he replied to the above question; "very curious.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War] Reference

"The rate of growth of the common branching madrepore is not over one and a half inches a year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography and Selected Essays] Reference

Miraculous isles of madrepore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference

He bent and affected to examine the madrepore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Major Vigoureux] Reference

Sea-hedgehog, madrepore, sea-ruff, or pad.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Love Story] Reference