"Denticulated" Quotes from Famous Books
... can hardly measure less than four hundred feet in stature. They are the remains of a sharp granitic comb whose apex was once the "Parrot's Beak." The mass, formerly mammilated, has been broken and denticulated by the destruction of softer strata. Already the lower crest, bounding the Sha'b Umm Khrgah, shows perpendicular fissures which, when these huge columns shall be gnawed away by the tooth of Time, will form a new range ... — The Land of Midian, Vol. 2 • Richard Burton |