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Sentences starting with stone

Stone statues are made of harder material, but a soul dwells within them too. [10]
Stone walls have ears. [11]
Stone gave me a pleasant good-morning, and we walked together the length of the deck forward. [11]

Sentences ending with stone

Here it was written why those who asked should receive, and those who sought should find: "For what man is there of you whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? [10]
Neither do the wise ones beat themselves uselessly against brick or stone. [9]
The time came when Elsie was to be laid by her mother in the small square marked by the white stone. [6]
On Friday I went to Scarborough, visited the churchyard and stone. [14]
The pavement, here, was made of heavy blocks of stone. [5]
Ah, his heart was a stone. [5]
Once he had waked in the early morning, and, possessed of a strange feeling, had gone out to look a The Stone. [11]
The bridge is very fine, it have ten arches, and is constructed of free stone. [5]
The gallows Herr Van Bronkhorst had erected for men like you, is still standing by the Blue Stone. [10]
Now, as I understand it, the vein which contains the silver is sandwiched in between casings of granite, and runs along the ground, and sticks up like a curb stone. [5]

Short sentences using stone

Thus soft is this stone. [5]
Here, give me the stone. [10]
Why roll that stone? [13]
But not the stone one? [5]
That was at Stone Bridge. [13]
Third stone, fourth row. [5]
My heart must be stone. [13]
The stone is ancient error. [6]
Roll the stone! [13]
Dr. Stone. [5]

Sentences containing stone two or more times

He said he was hit by a stone from a catapult--a stone the size of a man's head. [5]
Striding from stone to stone he told himself, that ere he could begin a new life, he must do penance--some heavy penance; but what was it to be? [10]
The anchorite hastily threw away the stone, fell upon his knees, and soon found on the dry spot of ground under the stone, and in the farthermost nook of the retreat, a motionless human form. [10]
Kruger explained that that stone was removable; and that it was in the north wall of the foundation, fourth row from the top, and third stone from the west. [5]
There is a splendid stone pillar, a clustered column, right in front of me, and I am as much protected from the minister as Old Put's troops were from the British, behind the stone wall at Bunker's Hill. [4]
It was stone, reddish stone, and its nose and ears battered, and that give it an abused look, and you felt sorrier for it for that. [5]
In Florence, he painted every thing, designed every thing, nearly, and what he did not design he used to sit on a favorite stone and look at, and they showed us the stone. [5]
An arch cut out or a single stone would not be so beautiful as one of which each individual stone was shaped for its exact position. [6]
He saw The Man kneeling beside The Stone, he saw a hammer rise and fall upon a chisel; and the chisel was at the base of The Stone. [11]
The day was lead-coloured; the road had stone factories alongside of it,--grey, dull-coloured rows of stone cottages belonging to these factories, and then we came to poor, hungry-looking fields;--stone fences everywhere, and trees nowhere. [14]

More example sentences with the word stone in them

Supported by the young Englishman, Hilary climbed the stone steps and reached the porch, declaring all the while that he needed no assistance, and could walk alone. [9]
But when the young count held out his closed hands, saying: "If you choose the red stone, you shall throw first," he pointed to his companion's right hand, and, as it concealed the red pebble, began the contest. [10]
You'll prove that you threw a stone, or it shall go hard with you. [5]
Everybody will tell you that; and one day when a stranger threw a stone at it, not knowing it was your cat, the village rose against him as one man and hanged him! [5]
It does not yield to time nor to decay, to the long wash of experience that wears away the stone, nor to disintegration. [11]
Same to Governor Yates, Springfield, Illinois; Governor Stone, Davenport, Iowa; Governor Lewis, Madison, Wisconsin. [7]
They was Carter, Wright, Jengessen, an' two new riders from Stone Bridge. [13]
The stone is worth a landed estate, and though I am not a rich man, I would pay down two talents for it at any moment, even if I had to borrow the money. [10]
Every thing was worn out--every block of stone was smooth and almost shapeless with the polishing hands and shoulders of loungers who devoutly idled here in by-gone centuries and have died and gone to the dev--no, simply died, I mean. [5]
And how the woman with the red band around her neck, the mark of the rope by which she carried the stone, rushed at the other whose eye had been put out! [10]
It was hung with various garlands, and Melissa, before she prayed and anointed the stone, examined them with eye and hand. [10]
Side by side with the marble sarcophagus, or those of coarser stone, were wooden coffins and mummy-cases, with a place at the head for the portrait of the deceased. [10]
After a moment, with muttered words, Achmet sank down upon the stone again, drew a cake of dourha from his inner robe, and began to eat. [11]
They were aglow with loud-colored silken hangings, but the stone floors had nothing but rushes on them for a carpet, and they were misfit rushes at that, being not all of one breed. [5]
Great maples, heavy with leaves, stood out against the soft blue of the sky, and the sunlight poured over everything, bathing the stone walls, the thatches of the farmhouses, extracting from the copses of stunted pine a pungent, reviving perfume. [9]
Even the city, with its mass of stone and brick, rectangles, straight lines, dust, noise, and fever of activity, is penetrated by this divine suggestion of the renewal of life. [4]
She carefully followed with her fingers the groove in which the stone lay, and having recalled its shape by her sense of touch, she began her search anew. [10]
Miss Crane, tall, with all the severity of side curls and bombazine, stood like a stone lioness at the gate. [9]
Even a stone with a whitish band crossing it, belonging to the pavement of the back-yard, insisted on becoming one of the talismans of memory. [6]
I used to wish sometimes that I could turn fast enough to make the stone fly into a dozen pieces. [4]
Here it is--I will translate it: 'Brick livery stable, stone foundation, middle of town, corner of Orleans and Market. [5]
And no stone will be left unturned to discourage and overcome you. [9]
The third, upon whose figure Austen's eyes were riveted, was seated on a stone bench set in a recess of pines, and looking off into the Yale of the Blue. [9]
A drunken soldier, who soon reeled back into the tavern which he had but just left, distinguished himself as ringleader, and was the first to pick up a heavy stone to fling at the huge brass-plated temple gates. [10]
The first man who came to Purple Valley prospecting had often stopped his work and looked at The Stone in a half-fear that it would spring upon him unawares. [11]
He says the whites left their stone fort before he and Lieut. [5]
The pleading glance which Els had cast at her must have pierced her soft heart, for her bosom suddenly heaved violently and, struggling to repress her sobs, she gasped, "I know you mean kindly, but I am not made of stone or iron either. [10]
The big house where they lived was old, solid, picturesque the lower part built of logs, the upper of rough clapboards, with vines growing up the outside stone chimneys. [13]
At a place where there was a standin' stone I broke loose from three of 'em and come here over the mountains, and I ain't had nothin', stranger, but berries and chainey brier-root for ten days. [9]
At the Secundrabagh, where nearly two thousand of the enemy occupied a great stone house in a garden, the work of slaughter was continued until every man was killed. [5]
We'll stone him when we find him! [10]
At other times, when the light was perfectly clear and not too strong, and the village side of the crag was brighter than the other, more accurate relations of The Stone to its pedestal could be discovered. [11]
In the morning, when he descended the trail, he found the sun was pouring a golden stream of light through the arch of the great stone bridge. [13]
And it foresaw what menaced the man whose stone double it is. [10]
Then with the wet scarf he had used to bathe her face he wiped the blood from the stone flags and, picking up the gun, he threw it upon a couch. [13]
It was the Westminster Catechism in wood and stone, and Dr. [9]
Beginning at the western break of the valley, it rushed along each gigantic cliff, whistling into the caves and cracks, to mount in power, to bellow a blast through the great stone bridge. [13]
And miles farther west a faint green spot marked the location of Stone Bridge. [13]
A few lascars were still cleansing the decks; others were seated on their haunches between decks, eating curry from a calabash; a couple of passengers were indolently munching oranges; and Stone the quartermaster was inspecting the work lately done by the lascars. [11]
But if they were of stone, I vow the flock could find their own straw to sit on. [9]
If the stone were now tipped over, it would slide into its place, and could be easily raised from its slanting position to the perpendicular. [6]
And after they were in office they were as helpless as so many stone images. [5]
Presently, as he went, he saw a stone well near a cottage by the roadside. [11]
Right from the water's edge rose long lines of stately palaces of marble; gondolas were gliding swiftly hither and thither and disappearing suddenly through unsuspected gates and alleys; ponderous stone bridges threw their shadows athwart the glittering waves. [5]
Ver' well, dere was twenty men in Pontiac, ver' nice men--you will find de names cut in a stone on de church; and den, three times as big, you will find Mathurin's name. [11]
Upon the table was the usual service, the heavy, much nicked stone ware, the row of plated and rusty castors, the sugar bowls with the zinc tea-spoons sticking up in them, the piles of yellow biscuits, the discouraged-looking plates of butter. [5]
Behind The Man was The Stone, which was not more motionless nor more full of age than this its comrade. [11]
The last blast was peculiarly strong one, and after the small rubbish was done raining around us and we were just going to shake hands over our deliverance, a later and larger stone came down amongst our little group of pedestrians and wrecked an umbrella. [5]
The cantor house was only a few steps from the Red Cock, and Wolf knew every stone in the street, which was named for the tavern. [10]
His real diamond was in danger of being exchanged for a stone, whose value he did not know. [10]
When the cider was heated in the brown stone pitcher, there was difference of opinion whether there should be toast in it; some were for toast, because that was the old-fashioned way, and others were against it, "because it does not taste good" in cider. [4]
Upstairs, the drawing-room was flooded with sunlight that poured in through a window with stone mullions and leaded panes extending the entire width of the house. [9]
The first officer was excited, the lascars were dazed, the stewards were hurried without being confident; only Hungerford, Stone, and the gunner were collected. [11]
Jethro Bass, who was engaged in pushing hemlock bark under the stone to be crushed, straightened. [9]
Behind the store was an old-fashioned garden, set about by a neat stone wall, hidden here and there by the masses of lilac and currant bushes, and at the south of it was a great rose-covered boulder of granite. [9]
Her family, indeed, was an old one on the island, and was prominent long before the building of the stone bridge on Canal Street over the outlet of Collect Pond. [4]
Not far away was a stone, too heavy to carry but perhaps not too heavy to roll! [11]
The State House was a building with much pretension to beauty, built in the classical style, of a yellow stone, with sold white blinds in the high windows and mighty columns capped at the gently slanting roof. [9]
A young lad, wandering along the deserted street, heard it, began to tremble, and sat down on a block of stone beside the doorway of a baker's shop. [11]
The grey stone walls of the houses grew darker and darker, and seemed to close in on the dumfounded, hysterical crowd. [11]
Restrained by the walls of stone from being destructive, it seems to rave at its own impotence, and when it reaches the whirlpool it is like a hungry animal, returning and licking the shore for the prey it has missed. [4]
It was a vision!--a miracle!--an anthem sung in stone, a poem wrought in marble! [5]
That commonest of village sights was lacking here--the public pump, with its great stone tank or trough of limpid water, and its group of gossiping pitcher-bearers; for there is no well or fountain or spring on this tall hill; cisterns of rain-water are used. [5]
It is a very relief to steal a walk of a hundred yards without a guide along to talk unceasingly about every stone you step upon and drag you back ages and ages to the day when it achieved celebrity. [5]
They saw the vault covered, and the stone fixed down. [12]
The depots are vast palaces of cut marble, with stately colonnades of the same royal stone traversing them from end to end, and with ample walls and ceilings richly decorated with frescoes. [5]
There it was vast and lone, Splendid in power, breaking against the stone Walls of the world in thunder symphony. [11]
To Venters the valley appeared to have been filled in by a mountain of melted stone that had hardened in strange shapes of rounded outline. [13]
There was a use for every one who could heave a stone or flourish a sword; and when he thought over the number of his troops he believed he might succeed in holding the building for some considerable time. [10]
When you see us offering sacrifice at the foot of a marble image you must not suppose that the lifeless, perishable stone is the object of our adoration. [10]
Her tears fell upon the stone hearth, and the fire dried them. [11]
The stone fell upon the ledge, and bounded off again. [11]
The fire rests upon the broad hearth; the hearth rests upon a great substruction of stone, and the substruction rests upon the cellar. [4]
Shortly we came upon an ancient stone aqueduct, built upon arches, and from that time forth we had ruins all about us--we were approaching our journey's end. [5]
Here we came upon a new board shanty, and found some men engaged in building a stone house; so the Schwarenbach was soon to have a rival. [5]
He drew himself up to a sitting posture, but his head struck a curved stone ceiling. [11]
She crept softly up the stone steps. [11]
A road slanted up the little limestone bluff, and above and below us stone houses could be seen nestling into the hill, houses higher on the river side, and with galleries there. [9]
These all burn up sooner or later, provided they are not housed in brick or stone and iron. [6]
So they put up a stone wall. [5]
All went well until Marcey dug a hole in the ground, put a stone in it, and, burying it, said it was Laforce's heart. [11]
There are no unsightly stone walls and never a fence of any kind. [5]
Once more the unhappy woman waved him off; his very heart stopped beating, for her movements were wild and vehement, and he could see that the stone which she was holding on by shifted its place. [10]
One hand lay under her head, hidden among the thick dark brown hair, the other clasped unconsciously a little amulet of green stone, which hung round her neck. [10]
He is Shiva, under a new alias, and he abides in the bottom of that cistern, in the form of a stone lingam. [5]
The doctor gave Ulrich many an admonitory word, his wife kissed him, and as a parting remembrance hung a small gold ring, with a glittering stone, about his neck, and old Rahel gave him a kerchief full of freshly-baked cakes to eat on his way. [10]
The old Latin tutor put a modest blue stone at the head of his late companion, with her name and age and Eheu! [6]
He did not turn, but a heavy stone caught him high in the shoulders, and he fell on his face and lay clutching the epaulettes in his outstretched hands. [11]
Or shall we turn into the garden through the lovely Arch of the Princess Elizabeth, with its stone columns cut to resemble tree-trunks twined with ivy? [4]
Hers was in truth no beauty of stone, but the beauty of force, --of life itself. [9]
The twin stone towers of the unfinished cathedral loom up large in the fading light, and the bishop's palace on the hill--the home of the Bishop of Arichat--appears to be an imposing white barn with many staring windows. [4]
This old stone tower was very massive--and rather ruinous, too, for it was Roman, and four hundred years old. [5]
Then she went towards two blocks of stone which leaned against each other, and between them afforded the spot of shade, not many feet wide, which Paaker had pointed out as a shelter from the sun. [10]
One could have tossed a biscuit on the stone wharfs where the workmen, crouching over their tasks, straightened up at sight of us and cheered. [9]
Instantly the waves took hues of lighter brown, deeper yellow, and cloudy gray, and the sea wore the aspect of a shallow pond with muddy bottom, into which workmen hurl blocks of stone. [10]
While speaking, he took Hermon's hand and gave him the stone, but the artist instantly used his finger tips to feel it. [10]
The stone lies too far from the water to enable anybody to land on it now, and it is protected from vandalism by an iron grating. [4]
It is put together in solid blocks of honest brick and stone, and has the air of intending to stay. [5]
Then he returned to where he had left Wrangle, and led him down off the stone to the sage. [13]
If he, according to tradition, merely translated it from certain ancient and mysteriously-engraved plates of copper, which he declares he found under a stone, in an out-of-the-way locality, the work of translating was equally a miracle, for the same reason. [5]

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