But let me try to forget that side of it, and remember, rather, as we leave the smells behind, that the calcined bones become artificial manure, and go back again into the tortured fields of France, while other bye-products of the factory help the peasants near to feed their pigs.

Poor farms of the Ile-de-France!dwellings of old time, into whose barns the rich harvests of the fields had been joyously gathered year by yearold tiled roofs, clothed with ancestral mossplain hospitable rooms where masters and servants met familiarly together:you are no more than calcined and blackened stones!

It calcined the marble floor; it dissipated in vapour the inestimable gems that studded the walls.

In fact, the whole country hereabouts is volcanic, which is plainly seen from the immense masses of calcined stones, the exhalations of sulphur and the dreary wild appearance of the country, where scarce a tree is to be seen.

I never in my life saw so many calcined rocks and stones of great magnitude heaped together as at Radicofani.

I remarked that the mountain toward the summit forms two cones, one of which vomited fire and smoke, and the other calcined stones and ashes, accompanied by a rumbling noise like thunder.

It has been long since extinguished, but you meet with vast beds of sulphur and calcined stones, and the smell is at times almost insupportable.

They have been likened to those of Madrid, having the same brown calcined soil, the same absence of trees and vegetation.

Nothing is visible around but hard calcined plain, brown and level, lost on the horizon seaward in a series of mirages, ending northward in a chain of rocky, precipitous mountains.

A box with three compartments,for betel-nut, buyo-leaf, and calcined shell,cast in brass or bell-metal from a wax mould.

A white powder (calcined shell) that is sprinkled on the betel-nut.

The Chinese and natives of the place chew this nut with betel-leaf and calcined mussel-shells.

Great beams were burnt to charcoalstones calcined, and as white as snow, and such walls and towers as were left standing were so damaged that their instant fall was to be expected.

The solid walls and buttresses were split and rent asunder; enormous stones were splintered and calcined by the heat; and vast flakes having scaled from off the pillars, gave them a hoary and almost ghostly appearance.

The central tower was still standing, but chipped, broken, and calcined, like the rest of the structure, by the vehement heat of the flames.

The roof had fallen, all the woodwork had perished in the flames, and the stonework was calcined by the heat.

After Settat the road runs on for miles across the waste to the gorge of the Oued Ouem, and beyond the river it climbs to another plain so desperate in its calcined aridity that the prickly scrub of the wilderness we had left seemed like the vegetation of an oasis.

It seemed very little hurt, though the vegetation that had apparently choked the great open space was singed to a black fluff, among which lay thousands of calcined bones of man, horse, ass, and camel, for all was distinct in the bright, yet so pensive and forlorn, moonlight, which was that Eastern moonlight of pure astral mystery which illumines Persepolis, and Babylon, and ruined cities of the old Anakim.

Finally, we may sow the nitric ferment in calcined earth and cause nitrification to occur therein as surely as we can bring about a fermentation in wine by sowing Mycoderma aceti in it.

On farther reflection, he remembers that behind his grotto, on one of the first terraces of the mountain, there is a dense thicket, where the trees, embarrassed with vines and dry briers, closely interwoven, calcined by the burning reflections of the sun on the rock which surrounds them, present a collection of dead branches and mouldy trunks, scarcely masked by the semblance of vegetation.

To his great surprise, beneath the ruins, under coal dust and half-calcined trunks of trees, he discovered, elevated several feet above the soil, the partition of a wall, some stones quarried out and placed one upon another; in fine, the remains of a building, evidently constructed by the hand of man.

Bedient, who worshipped the abstraction, Womanhood, felt his intelligence seared, calcined....

It is said of the Pipa, or Surinam toad, a hideous, but probably harmless, animal, that very malignant effects are experienced from it when calcined.

The siliceous ingredient is calcined flint; and in some of the porcelain works, (particularly, I believe, those at Worcester,) the soapstone from the Lizard-point, in Cornwall, is employed.

"The fire raged four days and nights; and on the fifth of September, London, from the Tower to Fleet-street, was as if a volcano had burst in the midst of it, and destroyed it, the very ruins being calcined, and nothing remaining in the most populous part, to show the inhabitants where they had lived, except a church here and there, or an old statue.