And when, after Earl St. Clair had run to him and had held him in his arms till his senses returned and the warm blood coursed through his veins, the two friends returned to the spot where Earl St. Clair had thrown down the wondrous goblet, they found nothing but a piece of rough grey Whinstone, with a drop of dew hidden in a little crevice which was hollowed in its side.
"The Scottish Fairy Book"
Elizabeth W. Grierson
They all had their book-bags, pockets, and arms filled with stones lately broken for mending the turnpike road, mostly granite, but partly Whinstone and flint.
"Alec Forbes of Howglen"
George MacDonald
Dunstanborough Castle stands in lonely grandeur on great Whinstone crags, close to the very edge of the sea, and on the first sight of it, Keats' wonderful lines spring involuntarily to the lips:- "Magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn."
"Northumberland Yesterday and To-day"
Jean F. Terry