There is no lack of sandstone, slate and whinstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

Below this mass lies a pale red hardened sandstone, and beneath that a trap-like whinstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference

All the other roads are covered with macadam made out of black whinstone that is as hard as iron.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference

This stone was massive, of some thick grey whinstone carefully shaped into a thick, tapering pillar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wicked Day]

Heathcliff is: an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation: an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wuthering Heights] Reference

Many of these hills are covered with a hard, tough, useless sort of whinstone, which adds considerably to the expense of building on them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference

The roads were excellent, and made upon the MacAdam principle, whinstone having been brought for the purpose from the distance of several miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

A remarkable rectangular-shaped coffin of whinstone was that of Menkare, the Mycerinus of the Greeks, and the builder of the third pyramid; this interesting relic was found by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

The silvered whinstone houses, and the rosy men in blouses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhymes of a Red Cross Man] Reference

The rock is of trap, greenstone, or whinstone, which miners call iron-stone and.    From Wordnik.com.  [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference

The hills, at the foot of which we are encamped, are composed of whinstone (basalt).    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference

Scotch boy who had not eaten many a bit of whinstone, and been all the better for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madam How and Lady Why] Reference

Existing granite kerbs will be refurbished and the road repaved with whinstone blocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [News round-up] Reference

It is of whinstone, and "appears not to have had the chisel, or any inscription upon it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1] Reference

IN the body of our whinstone, on the contrary, there is now mark of calcination or vitrification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theory of the Earth~ Part 3 (historical)] Reference

It consisted of an elevated tableland composed of ironstone and granite occasionally traversed by veins of whinstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1] Reference

In a short time we arrived at a pretty large river, called Boki, which we forded; it ran smooth and clear over a bed of whinstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Interior of Africa — Volume 02] Reference

But in the unerupted species of lava, that is to say, in our whinstone, every species of mineral appearance is occasionally to be found.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theory of the Earth~ Part 3 (historical)] Reference

Tell her what Heathcliff is: an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation; an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wuthering Heights] Reference

Caledonia over the hole in a blue whinstone, where Robert de Bruce fixed his royal standard on the banks of Bannockburn and just now, from.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Robert Burns] Reference

Dunstanborough Castle stands in lonely grandeur on great whinstone crags, close to the very edge of the sea, and on the first sight of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northumberland Yesterday and To-day] Reference

Tell her what Heathcliff is -- an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation, an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wuthering Heights] Reference

If these parts of the composition be less distinct, or if only two of them be visible to the eye, it is termed porphyry, trap, whinstone, moorstone, slate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference

They all had their book-bags, pockets, and arms filled with stones lately broken for mending the turnpike road, mostly granite, but partly whinstone and flint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference

You see I know too much, and I haven’t your whinstone nerve and total lack of imagination.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prester John] Reference

A pretty large river called Boki, which we forded: it ran smooth and clear, over a bed of whinstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa] Reference

145 feet, cut through solid rock, of which seventy-five feet are of whinstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 548, May 26, 1832] Reference

My whinstone house my castle is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Carlyle] Reference

QUOTATION: My whinstone house my castle is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quotations] Reference

'Rough as a saw-edge, and hard as whinstone!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wuthering Heights] Reference

49My whinstone house my castle is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quotations] Reference

6014My whinstone house my castle is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quotations] Reference