freestone

How To Use freestone In A Sentence

• The base of these hills was of close-grained white-coloured granite, or whinstone: the summits of good freestone: on the sides several good pieces of iron ore were picked up. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
• While Freestone had a good run on his first experience of the stage, they had a nightmare when a broken rotor arm cost them over two minutes.
• Towards the end of the twelfth century, stone from Caen was used for the rebuilding of Canterbury Cathedral, and in the mid-thirteenth century freestone from Caen was used for mouldings and carvings in Westminster Abbey.
• The presence of Tori Freestone's darting flute makes the horn front-line quite atypical.
• The stone is said to be a hard freestone from the Mendip quarries. The Book of Sun-Dials
• The flesh of a "freestone" peach separates easily from the pit and so lends itself to recipes requiring attractive peach halves or slices. Steve Poses: Farm Stands of Salem County, NJ
• The house has a dark look, being built of the native whinstone, or grau-wacke, as the Germans call it, relieved by the quoins and projections of the windows and turrets in freestone. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
• The ten-bay barn is of limestone with freestone dressings and diagonal buttresses.
• Use chunks of ripe pineapple, halves of slightly under-ripe apricots or freestone peaches.
• The ridges themselves were formed of a coarse kind of freestone in a state of rapid decomposition. Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete