He crept out on a limb directly over Boxer and then he dropped a pine cone.
There he was picking out seeds from a pine cone on the ground.
All around had disappeared in the abyss; the inferior cone of Mount Franklin, rent asunder by the explosion; the lava jaws of Shark Gulf, the plateau of Prospect Heights, Safety Islet, the granite rocks of Port Balloon, the basalts of Dakkar Grotto, the long Serpentine Peninsula, so distant nevertheless from the center of the eruption.
But during the night of the 23rd, in consequence of the lava attaining the level of the first stratum of the volcano, the hat-shaped cone which formed over the latter disappeared.
It was explored thus to the very summit of the truncated cone terminating the first row of rocks, then to the upper ridge of the enormous hat, at the bottom of which opened the crater.
There, too, the colonists again found groups of magnificent kauries, their cylindrical trunks, crowded with a cone of verdure, rising to a height of two hundred feet.
Climbing down the crater, they went round the cone and reached their encampment of the previous night.
They went round the cone by the plateau which formed the shoulder, to the mouth of the enormous chasm.
From this point his eye, accustomed to estimate heights and distances, was fixed for a long time on the cone, the summit of which he wished to reach the next day.
The stream here made a bend towards the south, but this detour was probably not prolonged for the river must have its source in the mountain, and be supplied by the melting of the snow which covered the sides of the central cone.
Pencroft then twisted the piece of paper into the shape of a cone, as smokers do in a high wind, and poked it in among the moss.
And then you make a cone of clean, white paper with a little hole at the pointed end, and put the pink egg-sugar in at the big end.
Then, all at once, as quickly as you can eat an ice cream cone on a hot day, if something didn't happen.
and an ice cream cone besides!
I wonder if it can be an ice cream cone, or some peanuts, or anything like that?
One day Valancy had heaped up the sand in the little island cove in a tremendous cone and stuck a gay little Union Jack on top of it.
But I really like the cone and would rather not have to throw out a bunch of ice cream to get to the cone.
" The boy licked his cone and replied,"Because the day I take the dollar, the game is over!
" But eating an ice cream cone, Ron Silberstein, a 29-year-old musician, said: "I don't think this mask could hold this kind of ice cream - it's dripping all over.
The flavors include: Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel, Peanut Butter Chip, and Strawberry Waffle Cone, which includes crunchy pieces of chocolate.
