Sandstone

(noun.) a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.).

整理:诺里斯

• Sediment ary rocks, like old red sandstone, and, according to Werner, basa lt, are in a third class. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• He might have been an Arab, or an automaton; he would have been like a red sandstone statue but for the motion of his arm with the dice-box. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The power was taken from a water wheel in Steele’s Creek, and the first grindstones for smoothing down the welded edges in gun barrels were cut from a red sandstone ledge up the gorge. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• On either side of the peninsula the Atlantic in varying mood lies extended in summer sunshine, or from its shroud of mist thunders o n the black cliffs and their time-sculptured sandstones. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

整理:露丝