On this occasion, she witnessed several experiments of "colours, loadstones, microscopes" and was "full of admiration", although according to Pepys, her dress was "so antic and her deportment so unordinary" that the fellows were made strangely uneasy. ❋ Richard Holmes (2010)
Euripes, and a great rock of loadstones, which may cause the needle in the compass still to bend that way, and what should be the true cause of the variation of the compass, [2998] is it a magnetical rock, or the pole-star, as Cardan will; or some other star in the bear, as ❋ Unknown (2007)
Now, by the hidden and admirable power of the loadstones, the steel plates were put into motion, and consequently the gates were slowly drawn; however, not always, but when the said loadstone on the outside was removed, after which the steel was freed from its power, the two bunches of scordium being at the same time put at some distance, because it deadens the magnes and robs it of its attractive virtue. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Likewise loadstones of prodigious virtue, and other rare stones, both natural and artificial. ❋ Unknown (2002)
I perceived that the parts of the gates that joined on the inside were covered with steel, and just where the said gates touched when they were opened I saw two square Indian loadstones of a bluish hue, well polished, and half a span broad, mortised in the temple wall. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Several fine experiments were shown her of colours, loadstones, microscopes, and of liquors; among others, of one that did, while she was there, turn a piece of roasted mutton into pure blood, which was very rare. ❋ MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON (1968)
"The Selwyns I do not expect soon at Richmond for the Carlisles are going to Cheltenham; but so many loadstones draw him, that I who have no attraction seldom see him." ❋ Helen [Editor] Clergue (N/A)
'Near that isle there are ships without nails of iron or bonds, on account of the rocks of adamants (loadstones), for they are all abundant there in that sea that it is marvellous to speak of, and if ❋ Mabel Bent (N/A)
Some persons are like loadstones, they draw, others are like loads of stone, they have to be drawn. ❋ George W. Bain (N/A)
He places the corpse of the admiral who commanded at Babylon in an iron coffin, that four loadstones hold to the vault. ❋ Jean Jules Jusserand (N/A)
He was fond of comparing himself to Mahomets coffin, attracted equally by two loadstones, and hesitating eternally between heaven and earth, between the roof and the pavement, between the fall and the ascension, between the zenith and the nadir. ❋ Unknown (1917)
Both ladies were examples of sincerely religious life, “at once sources and loadstones of all good to the village,” as he wrote in the preface to ❋ Collingwood, W G (1911)
Likewise loadstones of prodigious virtue; and other rare stones, both natural and artificial. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Now there are some curious bodies in nature (of which I have two specimens on the table) which are called magnets or loadstones; ores of iron, of which there is a great deal sent from Sweden. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Their ego had been slapped in the face and compressed into a mould; they were subconsciously trying to rebuild it to its original proportions by feeling older than their fathers and showering their awful contempt upon those ancient and despicable loadstones: "loyalty" and "patriotism." ❋ Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1902)
She was a singularly beautiful girl, and naturally it was her beauty that first attracted me; but her intelligence and sympathetic nature were the loadstones that drew my heart to her as I came to know her better. ❋ Unknown (1901)
“The Selwyns I do not expect soon at Richmond for the Carlisles are going to Cheltenham; but so many loadstones draw him, that I who have no attraction seldom see him.” ❋ Ed (1899)
"Common stones" appear to be loadstones, brick, white lead, and gumstone. ❋ Unknown (1893)
[stoned] retard 1: guess whats in my hands...
stoned retard 2: omg! what! [what is it]? is it scary?
stoned retard 1: no...its a loadstone
stoned retard 2: omfg! [aaah]! ❋ Rubi (2006)
That [car] is [one hell of a] vaginal loadstone! ❋ Gingery (2006)
[Bertha]: You still having trouble peeing?
[Gordon]: Nah, I [shot out] a loadstone last night so we're all good now. ❋ Chigg Bungus (2021)
