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Examples
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The smooth curves of this lamp form harmonious and organic lines in the room, and with a little imagination they are reminiscent of a water-polished stone.
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In shallower areas, smooth, water-polished pebbles cover the bedrock.
Arctic Ocean 2008
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Where the foaming waters were sharply bent westward by an unyielding wall of granite he found a mass of storm-tossed driftwood that provided him with a fine-grained, water-polished club.
The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992
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Where the foaming waters were sharply bent westward by an unyielding wall of granite he found a mass of storm-tossed driftwood that provided him with a fine-grained, water-polished club.
The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992
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She had begun building her own little cache of jewels here; a handful of gems that Keman had given her, augmented with things she had found in deserted lairs, and the odd agate she found, water-polished, in the beds of streams.
The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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When Cadmann let himself go there was a momentary sensation of weightlessness, then a ramp of water-polished stone to reach up from beneath them, and he slid the rest of the way into the water.
The Legacy of Heorot Niven, Larry 1987
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Before the yacht, blazoned on a dark, water-polished stratum of the volcanic stone, was the White Blade which Jarvo told them marked the subterranean entrance to the mysterious island.
Romance Island Zona Gale 1906
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He was pointing to a shallow part, close inshore, just after they had left the harbour, where a drain ran down, and the smooth black water-polished rock was veined with white spar.
Menhardoc George Manville Fenn 1870
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