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Aubrey calls this "a conglobation of gravel and sand," and says that the inhabitants know it as "the Devil's Stone, and believe it cannot be mov'd, and that treasure is hid underneath."

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh

A very lucid explanation certainly, but rendered a little difficult of apprehension by the effort necessary for realising in a mental picture the conglobation of a fulgureous exhalation by a circumfixed humour.

From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Allen, Grant

He is called nut, from the conglobation of his form; but both the copies read, Out, gall!

From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur

Matter being supposed eternal, there never was a time, when it could be diffused before its conglobation, or conglobated before its diffusion.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Johnson, Samuel