argil

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So they toiled up the stiff and slippery slope, and found a scatter of crate-huts crowning a bald head of yellow argil.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The argil lamps, suspended below these images, shed a flickering light.

From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Flaubert, Gustave

Further: Webster doubles the l in all the derivatives of metal, medal, coral, axil, argil, and papil; but writes it single in all those of crystal, cavil, pupil, and tranquil—except tranquillity.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

A table in the centre exhibited curiosities of the rarest description: the shell of a Cauchoise cap, two argil urns, medals, and a phial124 of opaline glass.

From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Flaubert, Gustave

In the argil are imbedded small crystals of hornblende, or of mica, and thin pieces of quartz at most two lines square.

From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by Burckhardt, John Lewis