Synonyms for vesuvian

Grammar : Noun

Spell : vuh-soo-vee-uh n

Phonetic Transcription : vəˈsu vi ən

Définition of vesuvian

As in friction match : noun match lit by striking

Example sentences :

Then—the campaign with its crowds, its enthusiasm, its Vesuvian mutterings.
Extract from : « A Man for the Ages » by Irving Bacheller

Observation on the volcanoes of other districts show that the Vesuvian group is in this regard not peculiar.
Extract from : « Outlines of the Earth's History » by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

The name anorthite was given to the Vesuvian mineral by G. Rose in 1823, on account of its anorthic crystallization.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 » by Various

Pratt started, flushed angrily, and brushed the vesuvian from his coat, but not until it had burned there a round black spot.
Extract from : « Thereby Hangs a Tale » by George Manville Fenn

A Vesuvian explosion seemed to heave in his capacious bosom, and found vent in a furious roar.
Extract from : « The Prairie Chief » by R.M. Ballantyne

If I have not lost my mind I have accurately conveyed those two Vesuvian irruptions of philosophy.
Extract from : « Essays on Paul Bourget » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Here was Naples deserted by the thousands of foreigners whom a few days of Vesuvian bellowings had frightened into abject panic.
Extract from : « Vistas in Sicily » by Arthur Stanley Riggs

Sir Humphry Davy observed that the fumes which escaped from Vesuvian lava deposited common salt.
Extract from : « The History of Salt » by Evan Martlett Boddy

Otherwise the world presents itself to them under too settled an aspect—unless, of course, Vesuvian Revolution shakes the land.
Extract from : « Diana of the Crossways, Complete » by George Meredith

Readers will transport themselves to the Bay of Naples, and beautiful Vesuvian scenery seen from sea.
Extract from : « History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XIV. (of XXI.) » by Thomas Carlyle

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