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