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Meanings of loadstone in English

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A permanent magnet consisting of magnetite that possess polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically.

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Examples for "lodestone"
Examples for "lodestone"
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The lodestone which will attract this grace is staunchness in the Covenant.
Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá
2
ROBBINS: We reached our lodestone just as the sun was reaching us.
Rock and Ice Magazine
3
These properties of amber and lodestone appear to have been widely known.
Heroes of the Telegraph
4
Besides the maze, we have a double arch of lodestone above us.
Map of bones
5
That edge of rock was our lodestone, drawing us like a magnet.
Rock and Ice Magazine
Usage of loadstone in English
1
A late writer, speaking upon the subject of the loadstone, tells us:
Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World
2
Why were not her eyes endowed with the power of a loadstone?
Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel
3
But perhaps there's a loadstone in South Carolina to draw you back?
The House Behind the Cedars
4
One came from the finding of the loadstone, or natural magnet.
Discoverers and Explorers
5
The loadstone of love touches it, and finds it mere brass.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 / Devoted ...
6
And the eye is the target, a loadstone, of these images.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1
7
Then the heap of money was a loadstone for all their hungry eyes.
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Ye...
8
An all-powerful loadstone was dragging us on-thelust of getting gold.
A Voyage round the World / A book for boys
9
It was all of loadstone, and opened with a great noise.
Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volum...
10
To this round loadstone he gave the name of terrella-thatis, little earth.
A History of Science — Volume 2
11
He could move me as a loadstone moves a speck of steel .
The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid
12
They always turn to me as naturally as needles turn to a loadstone.
The Lady of the Decoration
13
A piece of iron, which is inanimate, runs towards a piece of loadstone.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
14
To the Occidental stranger such a gathering suggests some social loadstone; but none exists.
The Soul of the Far East
15
The following sentence was neatly cut in the loadstone that was on the left:
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
16
They had a principle that operated like a loadstone in bringing the factions together.
The Abolitionists / Together With Personal Memories Of The Strug...
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