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Meanings of loadstone in English
Usage of loadstone in English
1
A late writer, speaking upon the subject of the loadstone, tells us:
2
Why were not her eyes endowed with the power of a loadstone?
3
But perhaps there's a loadstone in South Carolina to draw you back?
4
One came from the finding of the loadstone, or natural magnet.
5
The loadstone of love touches it, and finds it mere brass.
6
And the eye is the target, a loadstone, of these images.
7
Then the heap of money was a loadstone for all their hungry eyes.
8
An all-powerful loadstone was dragging us on-thelust of getting gold.
9
It was all of loadstone, and opened with a great noise.
10
To this round loadstone he gave the name of terrella-thatis, little earth.
11
He could move me as a loadstone moves a speck of steel .
12
They always turn to me as naturally as needles turn to a loadstone.
13
A piece of iron, which is inanimate, runs towards a piece of loadstone.
14
To the Occidental stranger such a gathering suggests some social loadstone; but none exists.
15
The following sentence was neatly cut in the loadstone that was on the left:
16
They had a principle that operated like a loadstone in bringing the factions together.
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