The gun shook as it recoiled from the shock, but the wonderful disappearing carriage, fitted with coiled, pneumatic and hydrostatic buffers, stood the strain.
"Tom Swift and his Giant Cannon or, The Longest Shots on Record"
Victor Appleton
The forcing also of veins into contiguous stratified or schistose rocks is a natural consequence of the hydrostatic pressure to which columns of molten matter many miles in height must give rise.
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell
37. The liquid contents of the growth began to ooze out through the wound, but this after a time became cicatrized, and the stem continued to grow obstinately downwards once more, in opposition to the hydrostatic pressure.
"The Mechanism of Life"
Stéphane Leduc