Stony
['stəʊnɪ] or ['stoni]
Definition
(superl.) Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.
(superl.) Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.
(superl.) Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.
Typist: Stephanie
Examples
- The streets are wisely made narrow and the houses heavy and thick and stony, in order that the people may be cool in this roasting climate. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For the cart so hard to draw is near its journey's end and drags over stony ground. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Not one of her relations, for they lay glaring on her with stony eyes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She went by the way Mrs. Sparsit had come, emerged from the green lane, crossed the stony road, and ascended the wooden steps to the railroad. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- A pot of green bottle-glass had been allowed to cool slowly with the result that it had a stony, rather than a vitreous stru cture. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Many and many a sorrowful story like this these stony walls could tell if they could but speak. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Let her go,--with her stony heart, and her beauty;--how set and terrible her look is now, for all her loveliness of feature! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Sir Leicester, leaning back in his chair and grasping the elbows, sits looking at him with a stony face. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- For a moment she was stony with fear. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I raised his rigid limbs, I marked the distortion of his face, and the stony eyes lost to perception. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Editor: Ricky