petrifaction

They are wood, I believe, in an early stage of petrifaction.

With the petrifaction of its soil, it had withered away.

In extreme cases, such as petrifaction, the character is entirely disabled.

He is perhaps best known for his work in the artificial petrifaction of human cadavers.

Petrifaction is the replacement of organic matter by minerals in fossilization.

Petrifaction is separated from Rhizocretion by the way they are created.

Wood from local trees was preserved through petrifaction.

Esther, whose eyes had come alive and her cheeks flushed during these last words, relapsed in a second into a state of petrifaction.

At a short distance he could forget the blight, forget her petrifaction, believe that she was living flesh.

As a result, calcium carbonate from the surrounding soil had replaced the flesh leading to petrifaction.

The associated legend (of petrifaction for dancing or playing on the sabbath) is clearly post-Christian.

One person could change this legislative petrifaction: the governor, who signs or rejects the Legislature's redistricting package.

"What brings me back to performing is fear of petrifaction," Mr. Webb said the other day.

That was all - a situation of complete petrifaction, joke marbled by some misogynist Praxiteles.

I chose to kill the petrifaction mania with a delicate, a very delicate satire.

Because the fruits were of all types but tended to be overripe, a bit of petrifaction improved them.

Petrifaction of inner posture though Army pipes.

They mostly mean more paralysis, more petrifaction.

"What does the Liquid of Petrifaction do?"

Two thick pork chops were cooked to petrifaction and fresh sea bass came oversalted.

The artist has layered 40 metre long walls of ashes behind glass, as archives of petrifaction.

The trees, burdened with the last infinitesimal pennyweight of snow their branches could hold, stood in absolute petrifaction.

Their character armor is almost impenetrable, and their personalities rigid almost to the point of petrifaction.

He started for the shattered cellar door, then stopped, uncertain; how was he to keep Koros from petrifaction?

It would not do to have it known that a basilisk was around; some fool would be certain to test its legendary powers of petrifaction.