"Explainable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that much of the chalcocite is primary. The present tendency at Butte is to consider as secondary chalcocite only certain sooty phases to be found in upper levels. The solid masses of chalcocite in the Kennecott copper mines seem hardly explainable as the result of secondary sulphide enrichment. No traces of other primary minerals are present and the chalcocite here is ...
— The Economic Aspect of Geology • C. K. Leith
... distinctly forbade this; but I felt that it would not do. In every other way I was sure that I was allowed perfect liberty, so I soon ceased to puzzle myself or other people, and accepted Madam's presence as being perfectly explainable and natural,—just as the rest of the household did,—except once in a while something would set me at work romancing and wondering; and I read some stories in one of the books in the library,—of Peter Rugg the missing man, whom one may always meet riding from Salem to Boston in every storm, and ...
— An Arrow in a Sunbeam - and Other Tales • Various |
