petrifaction

In the next chapter I shall explain how these petrifaction stories developed.

She is not quite so far gone in petrifaction as Aunt, although she gets a little stonier every year.

To the artist, nature is never seen in petrifaction; it is really as well as literally a becoming.

There seems to be a life and infinity in the incomplete, which the determinate excludes by its own completeness and petrifaction.

Thus apostrophized, Jim is compelled to break the silence, which seems to himself to wall him round like a petrifaction.

The Empire stopped growing, and when things stop growing, they start dying, the death of petrifaction.

His companion in contemporary fame, Blackstone, shared the petrifaction.

Zoolithus, the petrifaction of an animal of the class Mammalia.

There is petrifaction of the understanding; and also of the sense of shame.

Opinions examined with regard to Petrifaction, or Mineral Concretion.