"Bed rock" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... places quite shallow. There seemed to be quite an area of this shallow water. The shallow places suddenly dropped off into pools of great depth, and it was something of a stunt to wander around on the shallow bed rock and cast off into the pools below. I tried it and found the lava as smooth and slippery ...
— Out of Doors—California and Oregon • J. A. Graves
... the river were sandy and sterile, and the soil contained much small quartz. The bed rock was a talcose schist near to Ocotal, but higher up the river it changed to gneissoid and quartz rocks, the latter in hard and massive beds. As we ascended the valley, the ranges bounding it got higher and steeper, the soil more ...
— The Naturalist in Nicaragua • Thomas Belt
... out them side comments," commanded Jim. "We know how smart that dog is, without your tellin' us any further. Get down t' bed rock!" ...
— Injun and Whitey to the Rescue • William S. Hart
... queer to tell it, and it seems queerer still to think of the doing of it, but I hadn't dug two feet before I come to bed rock, and there ...
— Red Saunders • Henry Wallace Phillips
... a fact that while an economic system does constitute the foundation of every religious and political superstructure, yet below the foundation itself there is always a bed rock upon which it ultimately rests, and this is a question of machinery by which the necessities of ...
— Communism and Christianism - Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View • William Montgomery Brown |
