Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name given to a bed occurring in the Red Marl (Triassic) near Wells, England, which is described by Buckland and Conybeare as being “a beautiful breccia, consisting of yellow transparent crystals of carbonate of lime disseminated through a dark red earthy dolomite.”
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Examples
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He told him that the wonder-stone lay concealed in a stone castle about midway up
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You tell me that the old woman has desired you to fetch the wonder-stone from Mount Massis; follow her advice, journey to the mountain, and work out your good fortune.
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With these words they ushered him into the interior, and gave him the joyful intelligence that he had now accomplished everything that was necessary to put him in possession of the wonder-stone.
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"Hast thou the wonder-stone from Mount Massis?" said she.
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I fancied I had already discovered the wonder-stone of Mount Massis, and now I must journey out into the world again on anew adventure.
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"Behold the chest in which the wonder-stone is hid," said they.
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"But," said he to the magician, "whither shall I bend my course? where is Mount Massis? and even if I succeed in reaching it, how shall I discover the wonder-stone?"
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After this Jalaladdeen heard that the castle in which the wonder-stone was concealed lay on the other side of the hill; but still no one knew anything of the stone, nor had the inhabitants a satisfactory idea of the castle.
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"Is this really the wonder-stone?" said Jalaladdeen, gazing on it with rapture.
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Go forth into the world, and fetch the wonder-stone from Mount Massis, otherwise thou canst never be my husband. "
tankhughes commented on the word wonder-stone
It's not the Blarney Stone and it's not Burt Wonderstone, but it's still quite wondrous and a stone. Can't find a specific picture of it online because so many other things are called wonder stone.
November 3, 2022