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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And sometimes columns are formed when stalactites and stalagmites meet and join together.
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Like bones of mountains among icy autumn clouds tiny stalagmites pierce the rippling surface.
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Ruth clung to him as her wide eyes drank in the nightmare splendour of the illuminated stalagmites and stalactites.
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Stalactites and stalagmites in wondrous formations diminish the sense of bare rock walls.
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The growth of stalagmites resumed on top of this fresh deposit when the climate warmed up around 18,000 years ago.
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The island was a long, rough crescent, covered for the most part with enormous stalagmites.
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These pillars may have represented stone columns or stalagmites, but they also may have represented trees.
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Those big stalagmites, like giant ice cream cones or some-thing.