loadstone

They are the moral loadstone of the remarkably strong Muslim home, where hierarchy reigns supreme.

A Cremona Violin is, to a rich amateur, a loadstone that is sure to attract the shining metal from the depths of his purse.

William Barlowe, died; celebrated as the discoverer of the nature and properties of the loadstone.

The sand of the beach of those islands is iron, and is as easily attracted by the loadstone as steel filings.

On the northern side, there is a door fastened up with a piece of wood in the form of a large loadstone.

There is in the province, about 100 miles south of Chihuahua, a mountain or hill of loadstone.