They occur in large irregular patches in the summit and middle regions, and though they have been subjected to the action of the weather with its corroding storms for thousands of years, their mechanical excellence is such that they still reflect the sunbeams like glass, and attract the attention of every observer.

The South Lyell glacier eroded this magnificent basin out of solid porphyritic granite while forcing its way westward from the summit fountains toward Yosemite, and the exposed rocks around the shores, and the projecting bosses of the walls, ground and burnished beneath the vast ice-flood, still glow with silvery radiance, notwithstanding the innumerable corroding storms that have fallen upon them.

And better for us, perhaps, that He should not cure us at once, lest we should fancy that sin was a light thing, which we could throw off whenever we chose; and not what it is, an inward disease, corroding and corrupting, the wages whereof are death.

Oh, the corroding, torturing, tormenting thoughts that disturb the brain of the unlucky wight who must draw upon it for daily sustenance!

Love scorns control, and prompts the labouring sigh, Pales the red lip, and dims the lucid eye; His look alarmed the stern Túránian Chief, Closely he mark'd his heart-corroding grief;

As the days went by and Esther drooped like a graceful plant athirst for water there grew in Aunt Amy's twisted brain a slow corroding anger.

" The poor stricken heart brimmed with its bitter and corroding agony; and, raising his head, the lawyer said, coldly: "Enough?

"What happened to your trapeze?" "Some one spilled acid on one of the wire ropes, and it ate into the metal, corroding it and separating a number of the strands so that a little extra weight broke them," said Joe.

"Bacchus dissipates corroding cares.

There was a huge market for non-corroding rebar to be used in concrete exposed to the weather, particularly in marine environments and in roads that were salted during the winter.

The sensitized nerve, which had received the old image, gave it out fresh again to the reviving power of memory, and this was only a continuation of what had been a corroding custom of years and years.

Distant sails, waning sails, Waft me to some shore Where corroding care prevails Never, nevermore!

that drowns corroding care, Asserts its empire in the glittering bowl, And pours Promethean vigour o'er the soul.

What was deadly in the neo-paganism of the Renaissanceits frivolity and worldliness, corroding the very sources of belief in men who made of art a decoration for their sensuous existencehad not penetrated to those Lombard valleys where Ferrari and Luini worked.

"Have you also forgotten that I am the son of Henri IV?" "May your Majesty never forget it more than I do," said De Luynes, with an audacity before which the eye of Louis sank; "but believe me that the fact will avail you little until you have purged the nation of the foreign fungus which is corroding the root of your authority.

A Greek physician is said to have copied it into his book of diagnoses "as a compendium of all the symptoms of corroding emotion."

that drowns corroding care, Asserts its empire in the glittering bowl, And pours promethean vigor o'er the soul.

To thy unhappy courts a lonely guest I come, corroding Melancholy, where, Sequester'd from the world, this woe-worn breast May yet indulge a solitary tear!

There she pined in the sickness of hope deferred, in the corroding anguish of dread uncertainty, for a space as wide as that between the baptismal font and presentation at Elizabeth's court.

With each day the torture increased, the soreness of his heart became more corroding and painful.

The sense of expectancy was so overwhelming that it completely paralyzed every other faculty within him, and Editha's searching eyes seemed like a corroding acid touching an aching wound.

Strongly alkaline as that water was, corroding to the mouth and nauseous to the taste, still the refugees were clinging to it.

Uncle Laube had a pet phrase that stuck in the boy's mind and exercised a corroding influence on some of his most cherished sentiments: "A man must be able to fight, but it is black hell when he has to.

He was unspoiled by fortune and applause; uncorrupted by the tempting chances of his time; stainless in the use of gifts which in the hands of a man less true would have caught the contagion of Pope's malice or of Swift's corroding cynicism.

She had endured six months of corroding homesickness and constant fear, when Mr. Noble came to her rescue.