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Definition of Bluestones
1. bluestone [n] - See also: bluestone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bluestones
Literary usage of Bluestones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar by Thomas Rice Holmes (1907)
"... the inside of the circle has been conclusively demonstrated by the excavations;
hence the “bluestones” in front cannot have been erected before them. ..."
2. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1902)
"Professor Judd regards the "bluestones" as ice-borne boulders, the relics of a
former drift-deposit. They were probably commoner formerly than now, ..."
3. The Cambrian (1907)
"The title of Ambrosius or Emrys was bestowed upon Merlin for his skill in bringing
from Kildare, in Ireland, the "bluestones," known as the "Giant's Dance," ..."
4. The Cheshire Sheaf ...: Being Local Gleanings, Historical and Antiquarian by Francis Sanders, William Fergusson Irvine, J. Brownbill (1883)
"[1881] bluestones, SAUGHALL. There is a superior house and garden, ... known not
so very many years ago as bluestones, at which time it was a modest ..."
5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1888)
"The pebbles in the river-bed were quartzose, bluestones, sandstones, and a few
scattered pieces of granite, probably washed down from the Kinabalu ranges. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Those popularly known as " bluestones " belong to the Hamilton period of the
Devonian formation and occur mainly between the Hudson and Delaware rivers. ..."
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