"Bed rock" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thought it wuz built for astronomical purposes, for there is a passage down three hundred and twenty feet from the bed rock from which ...
— Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife • Marietta Holley
... Wis., on Saturday. From some unknown cause there was an upheaval of rock upon which the mills are located, throwing the mill walls out of place, cracking a great wall of stone and cement twenty feet thick and making a saddle-back several hundred feet long and six inches high in the bed rock beneath the mill. An artesian well two hundred feet away on the bluff has dried up. The damage to the mill and machinery will probably amount to several thousand dollars. The upheaval is supposed to have resulted from some hydraulic pressure between the seams of rock beneath. A panic occurred among ...
— The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 • Various
... search of such locations we must account for the numberless shafts which still exist both in India and Peru, and sometimes sunk within a few feet of each other, passing through the alluvium to a depth of 40 feet to the bed rock. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 • Various
... blind the eyes of the superficial listener; but these students are not willing to work out the fine points of the piece and polish it artistically. Neither are they willing to get right down, to the bed rock of technic and work at that seriously and thoroughly. If this course is suggested they grow restive, think they are being held back, and some times prefer to study with a more superficial teacher. The ...
— Piano Mastery - Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers • Harriette Brower
... down there to look into it. Darned if they hadn't lifted a lot o' woman's wedding things from that rich couple who got married the other day out at Marysville. Looks as if they were playing it rather low down, don't it? Coming down to hardpan and the bed rock—eh?" ...
— A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... attention from her sorrow, and she instituted a well-designed campaign to impress upon the child the desirability of civilized life and customs. Nor was this difficult, as she was soon to learn, for it rapidly became evident that beneath the uncouth savagery of the girl was a bed rock of innate refinement—a nicety of taste and predilection that quite equaled ...
— The Son of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... being from six to twelve days. Pole tools are used in drilling, the poles being of white ash, 37 ft. in length. The derrick is about 48 ft. in height. An auger some 4 ft. in length, and about a foot in diameter, is used to bore through the earth to the bed rock, the auger being rotated by ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 • Various |
