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• These cities were built and walled with granite, and we supposed them to be impregnable; and laying as they did in the centre of the continent, and in proximity to one another, we hoped yet to withstand them. —  The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West
• Of the variety of problems that it presents one might mention the petrological questions connected with the intrusion of the great masses of granite, and their relation to the slates and associated metamorphic rocks. —  The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
• They also cut vases and carve odd figures in an arsenical stone, of reddish color, with a grain like granite, which is little known in other countries In Shanghai the shops for the sale of china and porcelain-ware do not present as fine an assortment as those of Canton, where vases costing fabulous sums are to be seen, but they are rich with the peculiar pottery of Soo-Chow. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• We don't do things in that way now that we no longer have to get crops from granite, as they used to do in New Hampshire when I was a boy Carrington replied that it was unlucky for Virginians that they had not done things in that way then: if they had, they would not have gone to the dogs Gore shook his head seriously; "Did I not tell you so?" —  Democracy, an American novel
• Here as at Kobe the hills consist mainly of a species of granite which is exposed to weathering on so large a scale that the hard rocks are nearly everywhere decomposed into a yellow sand unfavourable for vegetation. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II

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