Literary notes about Limestone (AI summary)
In literary descriptions, “limestone” as a color evokes a natural, understated elegance, often suggesting a light, almost ethereal quality. Writers employ phrases like “white limestone” ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5]) to convey atmospheres of purity or ancient, weathered majesty, while variations in tone also appear. For instance, one author notes a “dull brown” limestone ([6]), and another describes it with hints of blue or grey ([7]), illustrating how the color range can subtly influence the mood of a landscape—from the soft, luminous bed of a river to the rugged, solitary cone rising against the sky.
- The appearance of the stone was that of fine-grained white limestone.
— from Noémi by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould - Again the clear waters of the Miami rippled in softly merry music over the white limestone of their shallow bed.
— from The Red Acorn by John McElroy - She was born at the mouth of a white limestone rock cave on the coast of Devonshire.
— from The Turquoise Story Book: Stories and Legends of Summer and Nature - The original is of compact white limestone stained yellow.
— from Zuñi Fetiches Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 3-45 by Frank Hamilton Cushing - [6350 feet], rears itself in solitary magnificence, an insulated cone of white limestone."
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron - Limestone also occurs in Deerfield, Conway, Colrain, &c. of a dull brown colour.
— from American Journal of Science, Vol. 1. by Various - The limestone was very compact, of a blue or grey colour, and many of the fragments were almost full of coralline remains.
— from Western Himalaya and TibetA Narrative of a Journey Through the Mountains of Northern India During the Years 1847-8 by Thomas Thomson
