Boulder

Examples

• An onion is an onion is an onion, Robert Jordan said cheerily and, he thought, a stone is a stein is a rock is a boulder is a pebble. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Another officer stood by the boulder. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Then the sniper behind the boulder a hundred yards down the slope exposed himself and fired. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Captain Mora got down from the boulder. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He was going to try for the other officer with the automatic rifle when he would leave the shelter of the boulder. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Below on the slope the man who had run from the pile of stones to the shelter of the boulder was speaking to the sniper. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Just then another officer flopped in behind the boulder. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He almost dove behind the boulder. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He stood up, then put both hands on top of the boulder and pulled himself up, kneeing-up awkwardly, then getting on his feet. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Then he stepped clear of the boulder and stood there looking up the hill. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Robert Jordan climbed up, over and around the gray boulders that were wet now under his hands as he pulled himself up. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• From the gorge came the noise of the stream in the boulders. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The boulders below them that had been wet as the snow melted were steaming faintly now in the hot sun. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Pilar was climbing up to them, making heavy going of it in the boulders. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• A long, sloping hillside, dotted with gray limestone boulders, stretched behind us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Throughout a large part of the United States, erratic boulders and scored rocks plainly reveal a former cold period. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Let us sit here, Selden suggested, as they reached an open ledge of rock above which the beeches rose steeply between mossy boulders. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He had slipped the pack off and lowered it gently down between two boulders by the stream bed. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Drift, sand, rubble, boulders, come next; and finally volcanic products, like lava, ashes, pumice. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Then he stood beside Primitivo in a hollow behind two boulders and the short, brownfaced man said to him, They are attacking Sordo. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

Edited by Glenn