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Definition of Flagstones
1. flagstone [n] - See also: flagstone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flagstones
Literary usage of Flagstones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Land- plants abound, especially in the higher groups of the flagstones, where
forms of Psilophyton, ..."
2. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1884)
"At the former locality they are abruptly truncated by aN and S fault, which brings
them into conjunction with the underlying flagstones, while near the ..."
3. Siluria: A History of the Oldest Fossiliferous Rocks and Their Foundations by Roderick Impey Murchison (1859)
"The Flagstones of Caithness, which were first described by me in the year 1827,
... Their most durable and best qualities as flagstones are derived from an ..."
4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"... SQUARE Flagstones 36. If a square flagstone is supported on four edges it is
evident that it will not be so severely strained as when supported at two ..."
5. Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical by Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1860)
"We detect fragments of the Old Red flagstones still fast jammed among the petrified
roots of old Oolitic trees; we find their water-rolled pebbles ..."
6. Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to by Edward William Cox, Great BRitain Magistrates' cases (1875)
"Those cellars were so formed when the square was built in 1830, and the flagstones
were then Ып. thick. The footway on this side of the square was formed by ..."
7. Building Stones and Clays: Their Origin, Characters and Examination by Edwin Clarence Eckel (1912)
"Class B. Graywackes and Dense Flagstones.—The stones of this group are often as
dense and compact as those of Class A. Like them the constituent grains are ..."
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