scoria

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Pamfilio Scoria had in vain tried to preserve his rights.

From The Waters of Edera by Ouida

There they would steal other horses from the Grosventres Indians, and drive them to their cache in the Scoria Hills whence they could emerge with them at their good pleasure and sell them at Pierre.

From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hagedorn, Hermann

Scoria was falling, and destroying all the shrubs and flowers in the beautiful valley.

From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Stables, Gordon

Scoria, skō′ri-a, n. dross or slag left from metal or ores after being under fire: a genus of geometrid moths:—pl.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various