He paid no attention to the police, but at Mr. Gubb, who was tearing the wrapper from what proved to be but a common vitrified paving-brick, he looked long and hard.
"Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective"
Ellis Parker Butler
Now they were round boulders raised one above another, apparently susceptible to every breath of wind; anon, they towered like blunt-pointed obelisks, taller than the tallest trees; again they assumed the shape of mighty waves, vitrified; here, they were a small heap of fractured and riven rock; there, they rose to the grandeur of hills.
"How I Found Livingstone"
Sir Henry M. Stanley
vitrified with age, by George!
"Warlock o' Glenwarlock"
George MacDonald