talcous

In the 15th-century Palazzo Pisani, Karla Black has made the kind of work that whets the appetite for the Turner prize, the award she is tipped to win this December: boulder-size bundles of sugar paper chalked over in shades of peach and pistachio and bedecked with talcous mounds of plaster powder; sheets of paper sprayed with fake tan; and balsa wood painted with eyeshadow.

Karla Black at the Venice Biennale: 'Don't call my art feminine' 2011

The rock constituting the cliffs along the shore where we were encamped, is a talcous rock, or steatite, with brown spar.

The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters

The rock constituting the cliffs along the shore where we were encamped, is a talcous rock, or steatite, with brown spar.

The Life of Kit Carson Ellis, Edward S 1889

The rock constituting the cliffs along the shore where we were encamped, is a talcous rock, or steatite, with brown spar.

The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson Peters, DeWitt C 1858

What I saw of this country between the second and eighth degrees of latitude, and the sixty-sixth and seventy-first degrees of longitude, is entirely composed of granite, and of a gneiss passing into micaceous and talcous slate.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

Cape Codera, the great mass of the Silla of Galipano, and the land between Guayra and Caracas, the table-land of Buenavista, the islands of the lake of Valencia, the mountains between Guigne, Maria Magdalena and the Cerro do Chacao are composed of gneiss; * yet amidst this soil of gneiss, inclosed mica-slate re-appears, often talcous in the Valle de

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

The rock constituting the cliffs along the shore, where we were encamped, is a talcous rock, or steatite, with brown spar.

The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851

What I saw of this country between the second and eighth degrees of latitude, and the sixty-sixth and seventy-first degrees of longitude, is entirely composed of granite, and of a gneiss passing into micaceous and talcous slate.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

The whole to the very top consists of the same talcous clay, which is universal all over the island, and of a talcous stone, which, when exposed to the sun and air, crumbles in pieces, and dissolves into lamellae.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Robert Kerr 1784

The soil here was found to be quite like to what had elsewhere been found, and the rocks and stones consisted of granite, moor-stone, and brown talcous clay-stone.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Robert Kerr 1784