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Examples for "stalactites "
1 In one cavern six curious blade-shaped stalactites are called the Major Chimes.
2 The stalactites here are very beautiful, assuming the structure of satin spar.
3 Here Edgeworth adds a long description of the grotto and its stalactites .
4 Above us, almost lost in the gloom, was a ceiling of stalactites .
5 He pointed toward a narrow cleft between two stalactites near the roof.
1 Gulls darted overhead; and past the canoe dived the great floundering grampus .
2 Jan held on and breathed through his nose, snorting like a grampus .
3 The grampus , thirty feet long, never killed on the same account.
4 I, for one, was puffing, too- Iwaspanting like a grampus .
5 I gasped and coughed like a grampus : the stalk was down my throat still.
1 Are you an old mole , that you haven't seen it these six weeks?
2 And how that dazes me, old mole that I am, you yourselves have seen.
3 The old mole - eyed grump never sees anybody nor anything.
4 Two-year- old mole rats show just as much oxidative stress two-year-old mice -and then live for another quarter-century
5 Well, old mole , if you had not been as blind as a bat you would have seen that all winter.
6 You can sit on my back, and I will fly with you to warmer countries, far from the tiresome old mole .
7 Live with the dull old mole , who hated the sunshine, who would not listen to the song of the birds-liveunderground with him!
8 Now, poor old Mole had on occasions been what is called pot-valiant.
9 The contessa's letter was a sort of puzzle to poor old Mole .
10 Poor old Mole 's desire to distinguish himself in this matter was very great.
11 This chaff goaded poor old Mole to fury, coming as it did from the boys.
12 But really it is ridiculous to fancy old Mole and those black rascals accused of coining.
13 A few steamers lay at anchor, and, beyond the old Mole , black coal hulks peacefully stripped of rigging.
14 Of course, he may have started from the Old Mole , and swam across to the head of the bay.
15 ' Old Mole ' - alias Dr Robert Molton-cametrotting towards them, carrying the inevitable pile of photographs.
16 "Good evening, you old mole , " said the elder brother with a laugh.
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