What is "stalagmites"

Usage examples of "stalagmites".

More bulbs, placed between the stalagmites, threw grotesque shadows against the cavern walls.

When no more questions were forthcoming, she turned and led the way through the forest of stalagmites and into a low, narrow passageway leading to the next cavern.

After a long descent, the staircase gave onto a wooden boardwalk that disappeared between stalagmites and stalactites.

A forest of stalagmites, like jagged, giant spears, rose on both sides.

But this space had none of the vastness or majesty of the earlier caverns, just a few stubbly stalagmites rising from the rough uneven floor.

Then she emerged into a larger cavern, filled from floor to ceiling with thickly-tiered stalagmites, many joined with the stalactites overhead to form strange yellow and white pillars.

Here and there, the growth rose from the floor in glassy humps and soaring pillars, where stalagmites had formed.

Titanic stalagmites rose here and there from the rocky floor to approach and sometimes to join with stalactites descending from above.

I found myself in a cramped grotto, ringed with stalagmites and stalactites.

The light from the stalactites or stalagmites or whatever was bright enough that I could see the hole in the roof.

Candle stubs of diverse length and hue glittered fitfully from every available surface, including the seat of the Exercycle, the top of the dead television, and each precarious stack of new CDs rising like terraced stalagmites at obstacle course intervals across the hard uncarpeted floor.

Stalactites threw angular shadows across the ceiling, and stalagmites stood neck-deep in the pool.

Rows of stalagmites arose like savage fangs, to be matched by stalactites as sharp above.

I must trust the Lizard man as a guide, for he beckoned to us and then wove a pattern back and forth among those fangs of stalagmites, seeming entirely sure of where he went.

There were no stalagmites here, rather pillars worked into shapes of horror, each a monster or a man, the latter seemingly locked in some unbelievable torment from which not even the end of time might deliver him.