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Definition of Petrifications
1. petrification [n] - See also: petrification
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petrifications
Literary usage of Petrifications
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Travels Through England of Dr. Richard Pococke, Successively Bishop of by Richard Pococke, James Joel Cartwright (1889)
"In the inner room is a great profusion of most beautiful shells, petrifications,
and fine polished pebbles, and there is a chimney to it which is shut up ..."
2. Works of the Camden Society by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1889)
"In the inner room is a great profusion of most beautiful shells, petrifications,
and fine polished pebbles, and there is a chimney to it which is shut up ..."
3. Travels Through Norway and Lapland During the Years 1806, 1807, and 1808 by Leopold von Buch (1813)
"It is the same with almost all the petrifications in the more ancient mountains.
The resemblance to present existing forms becomes gradually lost, ..."
4. A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps by Richard Joseph Sullivan (1794)
"But, on better observation, the reverse is found true; for nothing is more common
in cabinets, than flints containing not only petrifications., ..."
5. Observations on Mr. Archer's Statistical Survey of the Country of Dublin by Hely Dutton (1802)
"Many of the petrifications * above-mentioned are -found in places, where the
water has no influence in forming them, even in places remote from either ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1782)
"... of fome exotic animals, plants, and petrifications (fome unknown, others little
known), which have been communicated to the author by his friends and ..."
7. The Travels Through England of Dr. Richard Pococke, Successively Bishop of by Richard Pococke, James Joel Cartwright (1889)
"In the inner room is a great profusion of most beautiful shells, petrifications,
and fine polished pebbles, and there is a chimney to it which is shut up ..."
8. Works of the Camden Society by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1889)
"In the inner room is a great profusion of most beautiful shells, petrifications,
and fine polished pebbles, and there is a chimney to it which is shut up ..."
9. Travels Through Norway and Lapland During the Years 1806, 1807, and 1808 by Leopold von Buch (1813)
"It is the same with almost all the petrifications in the more ancient mountains.
The resemblance to present existing forms becomes gradually lost, ..."
10. A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps by Richard Joseph Sullivan (1794)
"But, on better observation, the reverse is found true; for nothing is more common
in cabinets, than flints containing not only petrifications., ..."
11. Observations on Mr. Archer's Statistical Survey of the Country of Dublin by Hely Dutton (1802)
"Many of the petrifications * above-mentioned are -found in places, where the
water has no influence in forming them, even in places remote from either ..."
12. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1782)
"... of fome exotic animals, plants, and petrifications (fome unknown, others little
known), which have been communicated to the author by his friends and ..."
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