Silicious

These creatures, to judge from the shrivelled remains that have fallen into human hands, were bipeds with flimsy, silicious skeletons almost like those of the silicious sponges and feeble musculature, standing about six feet high and having round, erect heads, and large eyes in flinty sockets. ❋ H. G. Wells (2009)

The gray stones have eroded from the silicious shale that outcrops at the beach. ❋ Unknown (2006)

These creatures, to judge from the shrivelled remains that have fallen into human hands, were bipeds with flimsy, silicious skeletons ❋ Herbert George (2006)

This, and broad horizontal strata of trap, sometimes a hundred miles in extent, and each layer having an inch or so of black silicious matter on it, as if it had floated there while in a state of fusion, form a great part of the bottom of the central valley. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The rock is compact silicious schist of a slightly reddish color, and in thin strata; the island on which we slept looks as if torn off from the opposite side of the gorge, for the strata are twisted and torn in every direction. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In the silicious matter which the water deposits is perhaps the bony system, and in the still finer soil and organic matter the fleshy fibre or cellular tissue. ❋ Unknown (2004)

These accidents must always be expected, where spare carriages are placed for months upon sidings to become tinder in the sun; and where the cracks and crevices of the woodwork fill up with the silicious sand of the Desert, an admirable succedaneum for flint and steel. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The sea in places washed over slabs of the fine old conglomerates which, in this country, line the banks and soles of all the greater Wadys: these are the Cascalho of the Brazil, a rock which is treated by rejecting the pebbles and by pounding the silicious paste. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The material is the normal silicious gravel-grit, traversed and cloisonné by dykes of harder stone. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A slight mechanical change would produce a crater of eruption in these slopes, which consisted merely of whitish silicious tufa. ❋ Unknown (2003)

These consisted chiefly of quartz, felspar, and a silicious petrifaction of woody appearance. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The soil was light and friable, and below lay a bed of silicious tufa; therefore, even without tools, the aperture deepened quickly. ❋ Unknown (2003)

These silicious bodies belong partly to the lowly vegetable organisms which are called Diatomaceae, and partly to the minute, and extremely simple, animals, termed Radiolaria. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Hence it follows that these silicious organisms, though they are not heavier than the lightest dust, must have fallen, in some cases, through fifteen thousand feet of water, before they reached their final resting-place on the ocean floor. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The Wilderness, east of the Nile, is mostly a hard dry earth, which requires only a monsoon to become highly productive: even where silicious sand covers the plain, the waters of a torrent, depositing humus or vegetable mould, bind the particles together, and fit it for the reception of seed. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The aggregate shall be clean and of silicious or similar char - acteristics. ❋ Unknown (1992)

· The sand and aggregate should be of silicious origin or have similar characteristics. ❋ Unknown (1988)

Other dead vegetation, because of the highly silicious water, always gets petrified unless it is eaten first. ❋ Piper, H. Beam (1952)

They chew them up, dehydrate them, and convert their silicious outer bark and carbonaceous interiors into silicones for themselves. ❋ Piper, H. Beam (1952)

His silicious [comments], though very [creepy], were somewhat [arousing] to her. ❋ Mo D (2016)

[Me and] [my girlfriend] [done] a Siliciate last night ❋ Yorkie Oxlong (2010)