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Definition of Pumices
1. pumice [v] - See also: pumice
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pumices
Literary usage of Pumices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"It may be added, that at Lipari, and in commerce, they are denominated pumices,
and names adopted by the arts ought not to be changed without ..."
2. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"Their vaulted roofs are hung in pumices, And in the rotten trunks of hollow trees.
But plaister thou the chinky hives with clay, Nor place them where too ..."
3. Memoirs of John Evelyn ...: Comprising His Diary, from 1641-1705-6. And a by John Evelyn (1871)
"... it burst out beyond what it had ever don in the memory of history, throwing
out huge stones and fiery pumices in such quantity as not onely invi- ron'd ..."
4. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1798)
"It is not generally known, that the pumices have ... the light globular pumices
are alfo found ; but we do not think, with" him, that this forms a ..."
5. Petralogy. A Treatise on Rocks by John Pinkerton (1811)
"In his visit to the little isle of Lipari, which, pumices of though only six
miles in length and four in breadth, is singularly interesting from the pumices ..."
6. The Monthly Epitome by William Clarke (1799)
"... pumices, and Enamels of the fame Nature, found on the Rock of burnt Stones,
and at Procida—Great .Friability of this Enamel, not common to volcanic ..."
7. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1889)
"SECTION OF LAVAS, TUFFS, pumices. AND A SMALL VOLCANIC CONE BETWEEN " IL ...
Lower pumices and other explosive eruptive products. 27. ..."
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