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Meanings of solid chalk in English

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Usage of solid chalk in English
1
Under a clayish surface soil, there was a stratum of solid chalk.
Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
2
In the centre a well descends to the storeroom of the garrison, which is cut out of the solid chalk.
Seaward Sussex: The South Downs from End to End
3
They traveled for several hours to a certain well, said to be more than three hundred feet deep, bored down through solid chalk.
Quicksilver
4
In every gallon of that water there are, perhaps, fifteen grains of solid chalk, which was once inside the heart of the hills above.
Madam How and Lady Why; Or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Chil...
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