"Stalactite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... seance followed. The litany of Lucifer was chanted, and the prodigy of "substitution" was effected. The ceremony took place in a grotto with a stalactite roof; Miss Walder produced from a basket the serpent which was an inseparable companion of all her travels; it immediately genuflected in front of her, swarmed the wall, and assumed a pendant position attached to one of the stalactites. It was a reptile of no ordinary ...
— Devil-Worship in France - or The Question of Lucifer • Arthur Edward Waite
... rays, Piercing some eyelet in our cavern black, Ended their viewless track On thee to smite Solely, as on a diamond stalactite, And in mid-darkness lit a rainbow's blaze, Wherein the absolute Reason, Power, and Love, That erst could move Mainly in me but toil and weariness, Renounced their deadening might, Renounced their undistinguishable stress Of withering ...
— The Unknown Eros • Coventry Patmore
... years, nor six hundred thousand years, but for aeons of untold millions." Those slender agents which have devoted themselves unceasingly to the accomplishment of a single task may in this long lapse of time have accomplished results of stupendous magnitude. In famed stalactite caverns we are shown a colossal figure of crystal extending from floor to roof, and the formation of that column is accounted for when we see a tiny drop falling from the roof above to the floor beneath. ...
— Time and Tide - A Romance of the Moon • Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball
... M. VESQUIER, is well ahead, and DAUBINET follows closely at my heels. Thus we proceed, and if this order is preserved throughout, I feel that the sensational romance above mentioned will not be written, at least not on this occasion. We are in stalactite caverns; I expect a subterranean lake,—of still champagne of course,—and a boat; strange silver foil and gold foil fish ought to be swimming about, and the name of the subterranean lake should be Loch Foil, Loch Gold or Silver Foil, according to the material. No, nothing of the sort. ...
— Punch, Volume 101, September 19, 1891 • Francis Burnand
... and subterranean; cool, dimly-illuminated grottoes, some in basaltic, columnar rock, some in emerald-glowing stalactite, invited all the fantastic creatures of the sea, both fabled and real, who were promenading about on the floor of the deep, to a sweet, life-long siesta in their softly-gleaming recesses. On the second ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 • Various
... Silurian; of the Devonian; of the Carboniferous; of the Permian; of the Trias; of the Jurassic; of the Cretaceous. Spongilla. Spongillopsis. Spongophyllum. Spore-eases, of Cryptogams in the Ludlow rocks; in the Coal. Squirrels. Stagonolepis. Staircase-shell. Stalactite. Stalagmite. Star-corals. Star-fishes. St Cassian Beds. Stephanophyllia. Stereognathus. Stigmaria; ficoides. Stonesfield Slate; Mammals of. Strata, contemporaneity of. Stratified rock. Streptelasma. Streptorhynchus. Stromatopora; rugosa; tuberculata. Strombodes; pentagonus. Strombus. ...
— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson
... the incident of being surrounded, and the way in which Tom presented a stalactite to the ...
— The Golden Magnet • George Manville Fenn
... by its nature disintegrating wherever it is exposed to the air and frost, and the foundations of the bastions which support the causses are being continually sapped by water which carries away the lime in solution and deposits a part of it elsewhere in the form of stalactite and stalagmite in the deep galleries where subterranean rivers often run, and which probably descend to the lowest part of the formation. Thus by the dislodgment of huge masses of rock which have rolled down from their original positions, and the breaking away of the surfaces of others, the most ...
— Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine • Edward Harrison Barker
... unobstructed beam" was shining right into the knapsack itself, for all the world like one of those little demon electric lights with which the dentist makes a momentary treasure-cave of your distended jaws, flashing with startled stalactite. At the same moment Nicolete's starry eyes took the same direction; then there broke from her her lovely laughter, merry ...
— The Quest of the Golden Girl • Richard le Gallienne
... be regarded, fancifully, as a lichen, umbilicaria, on the side of the head, with its lobe or drop. The lip—labium, from labor (?)—laps or lapses from the sides of the cavernous mouth. The nose is a manifest congealed drop or stalactite. The chin is a still larger drop, the confluent dripping of the face. The cheeks are a slide from the brows into the valley of the face, opposed and diffused by the cheek bones. Each rounded lobe of the vegetable leaf, too, is a thick and now loitering drop, larger or ...
— Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience • Henry David Thoreau
... explored the cavern. The mouth is about 1,100 feet above the sea. We zigzagged up to it, and first were led into an aperture in the rock, at some height above the true entrance of the cave. In this upper cavern we saw some tall and beautiful stalactite pillars. ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall
... little heed, his whole attention being at once transferred to the famous jube, or rood-loft, or what passes by that name. Bather let me call it a curtain of rare lace cut out in marble, a screen of transparent ivory, a light stalactite ...
— Holidays in Eastern France • Matilda Betham-Edwards |
