Sentences with phrase «of rocks»

In 1830, Sir Charles Lyell (1797 - 1875), the leading geologist of Victorian England, published his Principles of Geology, which showed from the study of rocks that «creation» was a much slower process than would appear from the Bible.

The beauty of the rocks in the afternoon sun, the weathered apricot trees and the stream along which he walked refused to let him go.

In fact, it is a mystery; on this account, how the causal powers of human beings can differ from those of rocks.

«If a physical thing were made up exclusively of parts of this kind it would not be essentially one, but only one by accident, like a heap of rocks piled up together.

That you can't see how it demonstrates you're as stupid as a box of rocks is why you're so fun to have around..

Between the world of rocks and a world of people, there has been a series of «emergences» — new forms of actuality have appeared.

But the ultimate components of rocks or grains of sand or molecules and atoms are series of occurrences bound together by a feeling for one another.

How can we survive as a democracy with a sizable % of the population delusional, paranoid and dumber than a box of rocks?

IF we, the normal, naturally developed, un-deviated sector of humanity, decided to for example, give up JOINT TAX RETURN FILINGS as part of our marriages, you would see the pink triangle radicals drop the issue of same - deviant - marriages like a sack of rocks.

Nothing new here, they are still dumber than a box of rocks.

Hartshorne grants that extremes of disunity or of monotony do exclude feelings, as, for example, in the case of rocks or perhaps trees.

Even a pile of rocks will have properties that none of the rocks individually possess — instability for example — but this is hardly a significant challenge to the reductionist goal.

Our elected representatives should be smart... but it now seems some are as dumb as a box of rocks.

Well Don alot of it has to do with geology (the study of rocks).

Empty out your head (plenty of rocks to be found there, no doubt) and lob the contents at the Loveland police.

He will be reminded of what that simple old sage remarked in ancient times, «When they meet together, and the world sets down at an assembly, or in a court of law, or a theater, or a camp, or in any other popular resort, and there is a great uproar and they praise some things which are being said or done, and blame other things, equally exaggerating both, shouting and clapping their hands, and the echo of the rocks and the place in which they are assembled redoubles the sound of the praise or blame — at such a time will not a young man's heart, as they say, leap within him?

I wouldn't take her out — this isn't my first parenting rodeo — but once she calmed down, I put some of her rocks onto her little stroller tray to play with while we walked back down to our neighbourhood.

If I have an infinite number of rocks and give them all to you I have zero rocks.

Now, I am no enemy to word - pictures, but a civilization is not really a house, a limb, or a heap of rocks; it can not literally fall in, rot, or skid out from underfoot.

It is that soil right next to the beaten path, or on the edge of the field which contains a lot of rocks and stones.

The Cambrian strata of rocks, vintage about 600 million years, are the oldest ones in which we find most of the major invertebrate groups.

There are as many ads in the world as there are rocks on the earth, and unless you've been living under one of those rocks, you've probably seen at least one ad that was the epitome of the old adage «sex sells.»

So brother I think it is not right what you are trying to do whether you are a Mormon or a Muslim... Nothing like a kinder word that comes like drips of water that breaks the solidest of rocks....

The next table had a big bowl of sand with a smaller bowl of rocks.

For we can easily see an analogy between healthy people and healthy cars, but when we speak of rocks we have moved beyond any clearly understood analogy to the normal use of the word «healthy».

If I drew a cartoon for the «Naked Pastor» it would be a guy standing in the middle of shattered glass with buckets of rocks throwing them over a cliff at neighborhood of full of glass houses.

He is pressing himself up on a pile of rocks, blood gushing from his crown of thorns, with an enormous cross on his back that reads «The Sins of the World.»

Again, the classification of rocks according to certain types enables engineers to carry out mining or building operations with maximum safety and efficiency.

There are as many ads in the world as there are rocks on the earth, and unless you've been living under one of those rocks, you've probably seen at least...

For example, there is the distinction which men make between themselves as souls, selves, or thinking beings, over against the inanimate world of rocks, trees, and mountains.

Just as I feel the presence of an ache in my stomach, and the ache thereby becomes part of me, so when I feel the presence of rocks, trees, hills, and rivers, they too become part of me.

Dutch, an Oglala Sioux raised in South Dakota, tells me about the numbers of rocks used for different ceremonies.

Natural formations of rocks do not have geometric shapes arranged in recognizable structures.

The strange thing is, our bags of rocks may look quite different.

The «bag of rocks» metaphor is right on!

Lutek, Yes, we tend to come up with what we think is the literal meaning of the Bible, then place our interpretation on others like a bag of rocks on their back that we think they should carry.

She landed in the dust of the rocks in a heap, startled and winded.

Not to mention that I once came upon a whole pile of rocks, who knows what was going on there.

@ Steve - I guess what i meant with the rocks was... did this pile of rocks (which happens to be in the shape of a pyramid) happen on accident or on purpose?

But they did used to burn them at the stake, or crush them under a pile of rocks, or hang them, or drown them, etc, etc..

If you're bound by the foolishness of anti-gun politicians in prohibiting trained teachers and staff from defending students, then a bucket of rocks is actually a reasonably good idea.

«They (shooters) will face a classroom full of rocks, and they will be stoned,» said the superintendent of the Blue Mountain School District.

Marbles in metamorphic aureoles and iron - rich skarns appear to be favored sites for gold mineralization in these deposits, perhaps due to the rheological character, permeability after fracturing, and chemical reactivity of those rocks to alteration by hydrothermal fluids.

We're not sure what's in the water in Pennsylvania, but after one school district in the Keystone State distributed buckets of rocks around school to pelt shooters as a last resort, and another handed out tiny baseball bats to thwart would - be attackers, we asked readers what you thought of these...

Also I was cramped in this really uncomfortable tent with a sleeping bag that was too small for me and also layed on a bunch of rocks I got no sleep.

Officials who have been briefed on the inquiry described it as having made strikingly little progress in answering the basic questions of the case, with frustrated FBI agents reporting that they are running out of rocks to overturn.

Old Dragon is the local name of a pile of rocks near Woody Island.

There's a good reason to drop some cash on a great set of rocks tumblers: they make whisky taste better.

More bountiful still is oil shale, a type of heavy oil that lies between layers of rocks like North Dakota's shale - oil but requires oilsand - like extraction and upgrading techniques.

The pair of rocks, called the Donnorsmarck Diamonds, total more than 185 carats and once belonged to French nobility.