coralite

The continent of Drevlin was flat and featureless, a hunk of what the mensch called "coralite" floating in the Maelstrom.

The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993

The soft, shimmering glow of the coralite was lost in the brighter light of hundreds of campfires.

The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993

Clutching the small lapis and chalcedony box in her hand, she hastened up the coralite steps.

The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993

Giant hailstones continued pounding the ship's hull and the lightning blasted three holes in the coralite during the brief time Haplo stood and watched.

The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993

All races have tried to develop various means of catching and containing the water by sealing up the coralite, but, because the coralite is essentially a living entity, undergoing constant alteration, these have met with only mediocre success.

The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993

A pumicelike substance made from ground coralite, grise is often mixed with headroot, an herb with a strong, but not offensive odor, used to kill lice, fleas, ticks, and other vermin.

The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993

Several coralite boulders were behaving in a most extraordinary manner.

The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993

Jarre stood some distance away from him, staring in awe at the coralite isle floating in the pearl-blue sky.

The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993

Outside of its formidable-looking fortress, it had little else to recommend it being mostly covered with the scraggry brush known as dwarf-shrub, so named because it looked somewhat like a dwarfs thick, russet beard and because once it dug its way into the coralite, it was almost impossible to uproot.

The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993

"Not long," he said, assisting her to sit on a large outgrowth of coralite.

The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993