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geologize .
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Examples
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We continued travelling northward in a zigzag line; sometimes stopping a day to geologise.
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We continued travelling northward in a zigzag line; sometimes stopping a day to geologise.
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Steward with Clem, when the Yampa expedition had gone, started back over the cliffs for Alcove Brook to geologise, leaving Prof. busy with observation, Cap. plotting the topographical notes and making his map thereby, and me with no special duty at the time.
A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
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On the following morning they kept along the edge of the moraine to the end of Mt. Buckley, and again stopping to geologise, Wilson had a great find of vegetable impression in a piece of limestone.
The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition Charles Turley 1904
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We can attend committees, and canvass for subscribers, and archaeologise, and geologise, and take ether with our fellow Christians for a twelvemonth, as we might sit cross-legged and smoke the pipe of fraternity with a
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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We botanise, we look for nests, we geologise, we study birds through glasses, we garden.
The Altar Fire Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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E.R. Evans, Debenham, and Gran set off to the Turk's Head on Friday morning, Evans to take angles and Debenham to geologise; they have been in their tent pretty well all the time since, but have managed to get through some work.
Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890
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Our elephant was an excellent one, when he did not take obstinate fits, and so docile as to pick up pieces of stone when desired, and with a jerk of the trunk throw them over his head for the rider to catch, thus saving the trouble of dismounting to geologise!
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Strange to say, we had almost forgotten that! and also geologise; but our concern at present is with fishers, or, rather, with that fishing enthusiast, MacRummle.
The Eagle Cliff 1859
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I however still had time to geologise for about three hours, and then rode back to Santa Cruz, where I did not arrive till late at night.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 George Grey 1855
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