gravelous

Example Sentences

• "That we ſearce it through a Silk Sieve, that ſo we may make it ſo impalpable, as that in paſſing through the Stomack, it leaves no hard gravelous ſubſtance, that might offend the Coats of the Stomack, or Inteſtines."
• "Patient be gravellous withal, he muſt drink the Spaw-waters, not conſidering how the Patient uſed to live before."
• "During the operation of such remedies, calculous patients are delighted in observing their urine become muddy and loaded with gravellous particles;"
• "The land more or less devoted to viticulture in the department of Gironde may be divided into six categories: (1) Alluvial or palus land, (2) rich, strong soil, (3) marly calcareous land, (4) gravelous land, (5) siliceous, and (6) sablo-argillaceous land.[…]Gravelous land is the most favorable for vine culture as regards the quality of the production, and may be divided into two classes: (1) On gravelous land composed of stones or quartz, being about three feet in depth, and having a subsoil of clay and argil or alios, the best growths of Médoc and Graves are cultivated; (2) sandy, gravelous land, forming a composition of sand and stones, based on an inert sand or upon aliotic layers, is not propitious to the vine in consequence of the humidity of the subsoil."
• "No sooner has he put his feet on the gravellous little platform, when a vast crowd of happily smiling and shouting Christians surround him, and after asking the first blessing, respectfully place their fresh, wet garlands of jasmine flowers around his bending neck."
• "The soil is very shallow, gravelous and the most part is rocky.[…]It was found growing in gravelous, fine sandy soil, fertile and non fertile^([sic]) soils."