There is an arenaceous quality in the style which makes progress wearisome.

The Arabs say that, once "submerged" beneath the arenaceous "flood", a man loses the power to extricate himself.

The arenaceous, or quartz rocks, including beds of loose sand and gravel, sandstone, quartzite, and conglomerate (a rock made of cemented rounded gravel or pebbles).

"An arenaceous ulster-speakingetymologically," he said.