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Pumice stone   /pˈəməs stoʊn/   Listen
Pumice stone

noun
1.
A light glass formed on the surface of some lavas; used as an abrasive.  Synonym: pumice.






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"Pumice stone" Quotes from Famous Books



... breakfast.' And I vanished into the bath-room. It was probably Carraway, I thought, that had left a little collection of soaps in that bath-room. He had brought a bucket of fresh water with him apparently to give them a fair trial. There was yellow soap, a pumice stone, and carbolic soap, and scented soap. 'I'll keep them for him,' I thought. 'Somebody may jump them if I leave them here. I wonder why in the world he's so distrait.' I had my suspicions as to the reason, and I laughed softly ...
— Cinderella in the South - Twenty-Five South African Tales • Arthur Shearly Cripps

... ground away the animals' feet, a horrid waste, extending upwards for 7000 feet. For miles and miles, above and around, great billowy masses, tossed and twisted into an infinity of fantastic shapes, arrest and weary the eye, lava in all its forms, from a compact phonolite, to the lightest pumice stone, the mere froth of the volcano, exceeding in wildness and confusion the most extravagant nightmare ever inflicted on man. Recollect the vastness of this mountain. The whole south of this large island, down to, and below the water's ...
— The Hawaiian Archipelago • Isabella L. Bird

... going to be messing about those doors? Why don't you get them under colour? You were fooling about there when I was here this morning. Do you think it'll pay to have you playing about there hour after hour with a bit of pumice stone? Get the work done! Or if you don't want to, I'll very soon find someone else who does! I've been noticing your style of doing things for some time past and I want you to understand that you can't play the fool with me. There's plenty of better men than you walking ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell



Words linked to "Pumice stone" :   pumice, stone, rock



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