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- noun Plural form of
petrification .
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Examples
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The roof of it is all covered with a kind of petrifications formed by drops, which perpetually distil from it.
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The roof of it is all covered with a kind of petrifications formed by drops, which perpetually distil from it.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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The roof of it is all covered with a kind of petrifications formed by drops, which perpetually distil from it.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James Boswell 1767
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As we ascended the hill again we found the petrifications scattered all over the ground; they were composed chiefly of palms and pines; and most interesting they were.
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If he were petrified in his present locality, we ought to find other petrifications in its immediate neighborhood, whereas all the twigs and branches which covered and surrounded him are free from the slightest encrustation.
The American Goliah Anonymous
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As we ascended the hill again we found the petrifications scattered all over the ground; they were composed chiefly of palms and pines; and most interesting they were.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897
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To render the scene still more imposing, remarkable volcanic deposits, wonderful boiling springs, jets of heated vapor, large collections of sulphur, immense rocks and petrifications abound in great profusion in this immediate vicinity.
The Discovery of Yellowstone Park Nathaniel Pitt Langford 1871
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Yellowish cavernous strata, with cavities from three to four inches in diameter, alternate with strata altogether compact, * and poorer in petrifications.
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It is white, or of a clear ochre-yellow, with a dull fracture, sometimes conchoidal, sometimes smooth; divided into thin layers, furnishing some balls of pyromac silex, often hollow (at Rio Canimar two leagues east of Matanzas), and petrifications of pecten, cardites, terebratules and madrepores.
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The same coral rocks as those of the Castillo and La Punta are found in the lofty inland mountains, accompanied with petrifications of bivalve shells, very different from those now seen on the coasts of the Antilles.
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