Naturally magnetized mineral, magnetite variety.
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Examples for "loadstone "
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.
1 The lodestone which will attract this grace is staunchness in the Covenant.
2 ROBBINS: We reached our lodestone just as the sun was reaching us.
3 These properties of amber and lodestone appear to have been widely known.
4 Besides the maze, we have a double arch of lodestone above us.
5 That edge of rock was our lodestone , drawing us like a magnet.
6 Cheap housing too, of course -the rather grubbier lodestone of our age.
7 The man was using his lodestone apparatus, and when he'd finished, Lyra said:
8 A kindly tongue is the lodestone of the hearts of men.
9 He was the lodestone that attracted the Brook-Farmers to West Roxbury.
10 It blazed unmistakable, like a lodestone of power in Mara's vision.
11 They have lodestone , so that no ship with iron can sail to them.
12 Overhead the stone pedestal broke free from its magnetic attachment to the lodestone arches.
13 His glance went to the portrait, and his feet followed, as to a lodestone .
14 Again he noticed that wherever she was she was a lodestone for all eyes.
15 It took a bit of fancy footwork to calculate with all this lodestone around.
16 He showed how a lodestone 's declination could be used to determine latitude at sea.
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