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  • Clean up obsidians Cats and shave his head, as well as rate his Anime flicks

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Sneak Peak 2007

  • Nor were there any igneous stones or red-hot cinders mingled with the smoke that crowned the summit; a circumstance that quite accorded with the absence of the pumice-stones, obsidians, and other minerals of volcanic origin with which the base of a burning mountain is generally strewn.

    Off on a Comet 2003

  • But it also became a field of wide-spread volcanic activity, and lavas and obsidians are constantly encountered among its gravels, sands, and shales.

    The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

  • The _cochero_, says that the place is known as _itzlis_ -- the obsidians, the knives.

    In Indian Mexico (1908) Frederick Starr 1895

  • Nor were there any igneous stones or red-hot cinders mingled with the smoke that crowned the summit; a circumstance that quite accorded with the absence of the pumice-stones, obsidians, and other minerals of volcanic origin with which the base of a burning mountain is generally strewn.

    Off on a Comet 1877

  • Nor were there any igneous stones or red-hot cinders mingled with the smoke that crowned the summit; a circumstance that quite accorded with the absence of the pumice-stones, obsidians, and other minerals of volcanic origin with which the base of a burning mountain is generally strewn.

    Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space Jules Verne 1866

  • According to our experiments, the obsidians swelled very unequally: those of the Peak and the black varieties of Cotopaxi and of Quinche increased nearly five times their bulk.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • Don Juan de Larea, one of those men lately sacrificed to the fury of faction, had been struck with the phenomena exhibited by obsidians exposed to a white heat.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • This abundance is the more striking, as in other regions of the earth, in Iceland, in Hungary, in Mexico, and in the kingdom of Quito, we meet with obsidians only at great distances from burning volcanoes.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • The deprivation of colour and extraordinary swelling which the greater part of the obsidians undergo in a forge-fire, their transition into pitch-stone, and their position in regions very distant from burning volcanoes, appear to be phenomena very difficult to reconcile, when we consider the obsidians as volcanic glass.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

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