pudding stone
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pudding stone
First recorded in 1745–55
Example Sentences
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A farmer told Mrs. Rudge that the people who built the church brought the pudding stone down from a hill, and three times the devil carried the stone back to its lone hilltop.
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Their scientific curiosity aroused, Professor & Mrs. Rudge began scouting the area, soon came across another pudding stone.
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The Rudges still did not know who set out the mysterious stones, but they doggedly followed the pudding stone trail across eastern England.
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The Rudges believe that the ancient Tardenoisians laid out the pudding stone trail to guide them to their flint mines.
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Entirely pudding stone, chiefly calcarious, some small parts of quartz, red granite, & flint only to be found.
From Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) by Stanley, Edward
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