The part of Mount Owen on which I stood, consisted of basalt, which had crystallised cubically so as to form a tottering pile on the summit, not unlike the ruins of a castle, "nodding to its fall," and almost overhanging their base.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell
In a foliated rock the mineral ingredients have been crystallised and arranged in layers along either the planes of original bedding or those of cleavage.
"Geology"
James Geikie
She undoubtedly adds to the common fund of crystallised human experience, as literature might be called, something which is specifically feminine.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind