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Parlá’s skill is finding dignity in the accidents of time, the stalactitic surfaces and loping marks of a city’s streetscape, the things that accumulate over time and are eventually lost to it.

From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2022

They gasped at the grandeur of the Grand Canyon, at the fire falls cascading down the face of Yosemite's Glacier Point, at the stalactitic vastness of New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns.

From Time Magazine Archive

The mineral also occurs as stalactitic or botryoidal masses with a fibrous structure, or in a massive, cellular or granular condition intermixed with calamine and clay.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

From this point both the landscape and the rocky cauldron are visible, and the latter is seen to be the remainder of a stalactitic cavern, the roof of which has fallen in.

From The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes by Craig, Austin

It generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown color.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section S by Project Gutenberg