Stones

Examples

• They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Yellow diamonds are more flashingly brilliant than white stones that cost much more. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• As they passed the different mile-stones, Oliver wondered, more and more, where his companion meant to take him. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He chose the trade of a lapidary, or polisher of precious stones, an art which in that age was held in almost as high esteem as that of the painter or sculptor. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• By dint of hard scrambling he finally straddled the top, but some loose stones crumbled away and fell with a crash into the court within. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There, Mrs Clennam dropped upon the stones; and she never from that hour moved so much as a finger again, or had the power to speak one word. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• At one end he built a fireplace of small stones from the beach. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He pointed behind him at the boat, and gasped to that degree that he dropped upon the stones to get his breath. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I ground and beat them between two stones; then took water, and made them into a paste or cake, which I toasted at the fire and eat warm with milk. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• A task too strong for wizard spells This squire had brought about; 'T is easy dropping stones in wells, But who shall get them out? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The man's footsteps were so noisy on the echoing stones that he was unwilling to add the sound of his own. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The wayfarer smoked his pipe out, put it in his breast, slipped off his great wooden shoes, and lay down on his back on the heap of stones. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• And now, Watson, not another word of the matter until we have a few solid stepping-stones on which we may hope to get across to our solution. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The grim blackness of the stones told by what fate the Hall had fallen--by conflagration: but how kindled? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• This must be a strange night to you, standing alone here with your counterpart on these street stones? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• There he made all the necessary arrangements for having the Diamond cut into separate stones. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Many people think deep, lumpy stones are most desirable. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• And in the laying of bricks and stones is the just man a more useful or better partner than the builder? Plato. The Republic.
• Again there was a loud laugh, the most startling of which was the Baronet's, which rattled out like a clatter of falling stones. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Using this cover, they were linking the individual mounds up with stones and dirt. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• If you try to evade me, I'll stop you, if it's by the hair, and raise the very stones against you! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• They have rumbled through the streets, and jolted over the stones, and at length reach the wide and open country. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Devoid of parents, devoid of relations, devoid of flocks and herds, devoid of gold and silver and of precious stones. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She's bad enough as it is, with her dreams and her methodee fancies, and her visions of cities with goulden gates and precious stones. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The brilliant stones gleamed strangely against his smooth, brown hide. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The connoisseur, accustomed to the possession of jewels, finds in its soft luster a grandeur above that of all the sparkling stones. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The nuts they cracked between their powerful jaws, or, if too hard, broke by pounding between stones. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Possibly he did not even have a name, but in some way he hit upon a scheme for throwing stones farther, harder and straighter than any of his ancestors. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Man first discovered by observation or accident that certain stones were melted or softened by fire, and that the product could be hammered and shaped. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In front of him was one of the whitewashed stones that marked the edge of the road. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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