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Definition of Living granite

1. Noun. Highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Living Granite

Literary usage of Living granite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Aegean Days by James Irving Manatt (1914)
"Pushing on around the mountain by a road hewn in the living granite, we follow the course of a torrent overhung by plane trees and full of oleanders, ..."

2. Portugal, Old and New by Oswald Crawfurd (1880)
"... surrounds a level area from whose centre a huge square keep rises straight as an arrow from the living granite rock—the very earth- crust itself—on ..."

3. Portugal, Old and New by Oswald Crawfurd (1880)
"... surrounds a level area from whose centre a huge square keep rises straight as an arrow from the living granite rock—the very earth- crust itself—on ..."

4. Switzerland.: Illustrated in a Series of Views Taken Expressly for this Work by William Beattie (1836)
"... in boisterous precipitation, shaking the natural parapet along which the road—with infinite labour and ingenuity—is chiselled out of the living granite. ..."

5. Brittany and the Bretons by George Wharton Edwards (1910)
"... and its traditions, the Calvary country, its plains dotted with prehistoric dolmen and menhir, Calvary and saint cut often from the living granite. ..."

6. The Glamour of Prospecting: Wanderings of a South African Prospector in by Frederick Carruthers Cornell (1920)
"Both above and below this spot for miles the actual bed of the river was worn so deep and smooth in the living granite that it was almost impassable for a ..."

7. Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843 by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1844)
"The road also, now free from snow, gains rather than loses, as we can judge better of the torrents its bridges span, the living granite crags its grottoes ..."

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