Literary notes about conglomerate (AI summary)
The word "conglomerate" is employed in literature with a notable dual significance. On one hand, it is used in the literal sense to describe rock formations composed of various fragments cemented together, as seen in descriptions of rugged geological structures [1][2][3][4][5]. On the other hand, writers extend its meaning metaphorically to depict a composite or mixed entity, whether referring to a building constructed from disparate elements [6][7][8], a blend of cultural or political forces [9][10], or even a complex personality [11][12]. This layered usage enriches literary language by aligning the natural process of amalgamation with the intricate and sometimes discordant unity found in human affairs.
- The surface soil we had lately been travelling over was covered with boulders and fragments of conglomerate.
— from Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Carl Lumholtz - The large fragments of the conglomerate in the river bed were angular, and not at all rounded at the edges.
— from Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell - This red under-lyer is, in fact, a great deposit of red sandstone, breccia, and conglomerate with associated porphyry, basalt, and amygdaloid.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget - On August 25, 1960, Dixon collected four additional specimens at the type locality, a conglomerate cliff along the Río Marquez.
— from The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, México by William Edward Duellman - In the valley itself, the sandstone alternates with alum shales, which rest on a bed of quartz conglomerate, and the latter on black greenstone.
— from The Fables of Aesop by Aesop - The office of the magazine was in a large, conglomerate building, presided under by a janitor.
— from Whirligigs by O. Henry - A conglomerate building altogether, not unlike a two-storied summer-house full of French windows.
— from Red Rowans by Flora Annie Webster Steel - The cement converted the whole into a conglomerate closely united with the face-masonry.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - In Stamboul there is with no exception the most conglomerate mixture of nondescript nationalities on the face of the earth.
— from The Secrets of the German War Office by Armgaard Karl Graves - The National Socialist German Workers' Party, as Hitler called his movement, was a conglomerate built up around a few determined fanatics.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger - It is not a conglomerate idea, but a single one.
— from The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 8, August, 1880 by Various - I did not wish to be brought to life, and I am greatly ashamed of my conglomerate personality.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
