"Talc" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... however, I began to find that I was shelling out something that was not cement. It chipped away, in regular layers, and when I took it to the daylight I found that each layer was made up of two parts. One side was shiny staff that looked like talc, and on this was smeared a coating of dark toffee-coloured material, that might have been wax. The toffee-coloured surface was worked over with ...
— The Lost Continent • C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
... my party to the water-holes found by Mr. Roper; on approaching them, we crossed an extensive box-flat, near that part of the river where it is split into collateral chains of holes. Talc-schiste cropped out at the latter part of the journey; its strata were perpendicular, and their direction from north-west to south-east; its character was the same as that of Moreton Bay and New England; numerous veins of quartz ...
— Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia • Ludwig Leichhardt
... ribbon of road that was leading us across all Northern Italy. It was so dusty that Mamma, Maida, and I put on the motor-veils we had discarded after the first few hours of the trip till now; things made of pongee silk, with windows of talc over our eyes and little lace doors for our breath to pass through. It was fun when we would slacken speed in some town or village, to see how the young Italians tried to pry into the motor-masks' secrets and find out if we were pretty. How much more they ...
— My Friend the Chauffeur • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... natural gas, crude oil, coal, copper, talc, barites, sulphur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, ...
— The 1991 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... specimens of Talc brought from Nepal as a medicine; but I have no information concerning the place where it ...
— An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal • Fancis Buchanan Hamilton |
