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Sentences starting with stones

Stones were again flying down through the open roof, and the members of the council started up from their ivory seats and sought shelter behind the marble piers and columns. [10]
Stones and bricks filled the air, and were heard striking steel and flesh in the ranks. [9]

Sentences ending with stones

Its deck glittered with precious stones. [10]
No doubt it will be hard to you to crave a boon, but ought you to shrink from those few steps over sharp stones? [10]
The good gifts which Heaven formerly permitted me to enjoy have lost their zest; instead of bread, it now gives me stones. [10]
And, as though we were still in the pastoral times of peace, in the square of one of these villages a horse-fair was in progress, blue-smocked peasants were trotting chunky ponies over the stones. [9]
The color thereof was white and sapphire-blue, and so likewise were the velvet cap and finely-rounded ostrich feather, which was fastened into it with a brooch of sparkling precious stones. [10]
There were no walls, no fences, no hedges--nothing to secure a man's possessions but these random heaps of stones. [5]
Everett Constable coughed, Wallis Plimpton shifted his position, the others sat like stones. [9]
And being turned upside down, he opened his mouth and vomited out the stones. [5]
Our course led up some terrific steeps, densely wooded with larches and cedars, and traversed by paths which the rains had guttered and which were obstructed by loose stones. [5]
Can you not understand how silly it is to pray to stones? [10]

Short sentences using stones

Ice was on the stones. [9]

Sentences containing stones two or more times

They had no weapons, but there were plenty of stones, and stones might answer. [5]
To dig a grave in the rock was impracticable, but the loose stones were scooped away to the depth of a foot or so, the body was deposited, and the stones were replaced over it. [4]

More example sentences with the word stones in them

All the first years, their only question had been--asked with beseechings and tears that might have moved stones, in time, perhaps, but hearts are not stones: "Is he alive? [5]
The good you would put in a mill to watch the stones grind, and the bad you would put on a prairie alone to make the grist for the grinding. [11]
How carefully he would have removed the stones from his darkened pathway! [10]
The stones are worn and smooth, and pushed apart in places, so that the road has the exact appearance of those ancient paved highways leading out of Rome which one sees in pictures. [5]
Over this he wore a mantle of white cloth-of-gold, pounced with the triple-feathered crest, lined with blue satin, set with pearls and precious stones, and fastened with a clasp of brilliants. [5]
It consisted of wood and stones, and was covered with a thick layer of moss, raised at the head in a slanting direction. [10]
It is a wonder that this slight-looking structure can have survived the blasts, and thunderbolts, and earthquakes, and the weakening effects of time on its stones and timbers for five hundred years. [6]
But many brightly-coloured, white, or otherwise conspicuous species, do not seek concealment; whilst again some equally conspicuous species, as well as other dull-coloured kinds live under stones and in dark recesses. [1]
The stones on which they had stepped were covered, and a deep stream of water, rising with every pulsation of the sea, now, where there was only a rivulet before. [4]
The Scythian guards, which at last put a stop to the frantic rage of the deluded populace, arrived too late to prevent the destruction of the house, but they saved Philotas and the other youths from the fists and stones of the rabble. [10]
They would cross where the twelve stones were placed in memory of that great event. [5]
Every trench dug where the paving was torn up had its object, and each heap of stones its particular design. [10]
Inside, the walls were stuccoed in imitation of stone,--first a dark brown square, then two light brown squares, then another dark brown square, and so on, to represent the accidental differences of shade always noticeable in the real stones of which walls are built. [6]
Few of them were in a position whence they might cast stones at Eldon Parr . [9]
A spacious yard well above the pavement surrounds it, sustained by a wall of dressed stones, capped by an iron fence. [9]
Is it a weed that will grow anywhere, in a crevice between two stones in the city? [9]
On every walk we took they were forced upon our ears; the air was full of them, the very stones repeated them. [10]
So with that we threw all the stones on him, and then left him. [5]
Working by night, we stowed the powder in the tower--dug stones out, on the inside, and buried the powder in the walls themselves, which were fifteen feet thick at the base. [5]
His next work was to build a fireplace of stones and to gather a store of wood. [13]
A long consultation was held, but the conclusion was two great stones were brought before Powhatan; then as many as could layd hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head, and being ready with their clubs, to beate out his braines. [4]
Round her throat was fastened a necklace like a collar, made of pearls and costly stones, and hanging low down on her well-formed bosom. [10]
What a change was all this, he thought to himself, from the staring hot stones of Malta, the squalor of Constantinople, the frigid cliffs of Spitzbergen, the noisome tropical forests of the Indies! [11]
Within the cabin was a great fireplace of stones, where our cooking was done, and bunks set round for the men in cold weather and rainy. [9]
All the vast walls are made wholly of these precious stones, worked in, and in and in together in elaborate pattern s and figures, and polished till they glow like great mirrors with the pictured splendors reflected from the dome overhead. [5]
I used to walk down there and sit on the stones of the ruined mill; or climb to the crests on the far side of the pond to gaze for hours westward where the green billows of the Alleghenies lost themselves in the haze. [9]
The Hamadryas baboons turn over stones to find insects, etc. [1]
Gold and silver trappings lay there in abundance, costly articles of attire studded with precious stones . [10]
Yes--on; still on towards the goal; away over ruins and stones, through blood and dust, till she bowed her proud neck, crushed and beaten, and sued for mercy. [10]
Sleep had not touched Orlando's eyes when, sitting down by the stones which were to mark his resting-place, he waited for Louise to wake. [11]
My second visit to the great stones after so long an interval was a strange experience. [6]
That constant pacing to and fro, that never-ending restlessness, that incessant tread of feet wearing the rough stones smooth and glossy--is it not a wonder how the dwellers in narrows ways can bear to hear it! [12]
But after a tiresome march of almost half a mile, we came to a hill covered thick with a crumbly rubbish of stones, and so steep that no man of us all was now in a condition to climb it. [5]
The mob had thrown stones at the upper windows, in order to awaken him, and had insulted him with cursing and offensive language. [4]
I smiled to think what the tiny creek, always creeping through a faint leak in the gates and falling with a granite rattle on the stones, would now become. [11]
In combined length these three stones stretch nearly two hundred feet; they are thirteen feet square; two of them are sixty-four feet long each, and the third is sixty-nine. [5]
Egyptian vessels were there, manned by Phoenician colonists from the coasts of the Delta, and bringing fine woven goods from Malta, metals and precious stones from Sardinia, wine and copper from Cyprus. [10]
As we stood there, a scarlet figure came winding in and out among the giant stones, crosses hanging at her girdle. [11]
I doubt if there has been a more faithful reader of these graven stones than myself for many a long day. [6]
Sooner or later, then, Jane heard the cracking of horses' hoofs on the stones, and the sound came nearer and nearer. [13]
The number of their collected enemies was great, but Hermas had hopes of outstripping them, for his prisoner revealed to him the spot where their boats, drawn up on shore, lay hidden under sand and stones. [10]
The cheerfulness of the workmen, who sang gaily an old chanson of mill- life as they tugged at the timbers and stones, gave a fillip to the spirits of Jean Jacques, to whom had come a red-letter day. [11]
Like Sindbad in the valley of precious stones, he wants to fill his pockets with diamonds, but, lo! [6]
I sprang through the underbrush and came down roughly into a sort of quarry, spraining my ankle on a pile of stones. [11]
The doors of the temple were thrown wide open; the temple-servants and hundreds of soldiers were busied in clearing the steps and approaches of the stones and fragments of statuary with which the heathen had encumbered them. [10]
Then filling in the space between the mound and two contiguous stones, the impost could be dragged up to its position. [6]
The mare and the sorrel of Cumner's Son I put inside the house that covers the well, and I lifted two stones from the floor and set them against the entrance. [11]
The Plain of the Shepherds is a desert, paved with loose stones, void of vegetation, glaring in the fierce sun. [5]
Could it be the roar of the thousand wheels and the ten thousand footsteps jarring and trampling along the stones of the neighboring city? [6]
We went to the quarry from whence the stones of Baalbec were taken. [5]
He always dominated the places easiest of assault, and flung down exceedingly troublesome big stones which smashed men and ladders both --then he would near burst himself with laughing over what he had done. [5]
They have passed the outer wall, and stand in the open air--in the street he has so often pictured to himself when hemmed in by the gloomy stones, and which has been in all his dreams. [12]
Here once when the Micks got to throwing stones through the Methodis' Sunday school windows, Buck Fanshaw, all of his own notion, shut up his saloon and took a couple of six-shooters and mounted guard over the Sunday school. [5]
He smiled at the lizards hanging on the foundation stones, he paused to dip his finger in the basin of a fountain, he eyed good-humouredly the beggars--old pensioners of the late Dakoon--seated in the shade with outstretched hands. [11]
They grow none the less vigorously for being trodden upon, like those tough weeds that love to nestle between the stones of court-yard pavements. [6]
The back and the jambs are built up of great stones, not always smoothly laid, with jutting ledges upon which ashes are apt to lie. [4]
I have seen the hull of a steamboat that was smaller than one of those stones. [5]
With respect to the Hamadryas turning over stones, the fact is given (s. 76), on the evidence of Alvarez, whose observations Brehm thinks quite trustworthy. [1]
Murmuring and plashing, the forest stream dashed down its steep bed over rocks and amid moss-covered stones and smooth pebbles to the valley. [10]
Every ramble through the forest enriched our knowledge of plants and animals, and I soon knew the different varieties of stones also; yet we did not suspect that this knowledge was imparted according to a certain system. [10]
Presently he drove the dogs across the road, and attached them to a flat vehicle, without wheels or runners, used by Garotte for the drawing of lime and stones. [11]
Ye know, also, that when mosques are builded, asses bear the stones and the cement, and cross the sacred threshold. [5]
It is more than human to take the stones from the path of the man who became her foe, as she does. [10]
Outside the little tavern there, after dinner, the green stage was drawn up; and Tom the driver cracked his long whip over the Morgan leaders and they started, swaying in the sand ruts and jolting over the great stones that cropped out of the road. [9]
The grave is surrounded by a low wall of loose stones, to which each visitor adds one, and in the course of ages the cairn may grow to a good size. [4]
It was about sunset, and she and Fay had finished supper and were sitting in the court, when Venters's quick steps rang on the stones. [13]
Yet there he stood before the eyes of her soul in all his stately height, surrounded by radiance, and with a solemn gesture he laid his hand on the stones he had piled up. [10]
Many of the stones, that had been thrown, struck the slates on the roof; not one had passed over the church. [10]
They roll down stones, or throw them at their enemies: nevertheless, they are clumsy in these various actions, and, as I have myself seen, are quite unable to throw a stone with precision. [1]
Baboons turn over stones, and scratch up roots with their hands. [1]
The huge hewn stones which he required for this purpose had been taken from the Temple of Nemesis, which he was supervising. [10]
A few upright stones were all that I recollect. [6]
He placed the stones some yards apart. [13]
Some of its stones show marks, as it is thought, of having belonged to a Saxon edifice. [6]
There are single stones in the Treasury building (and a good many of them) that cost twenty-seven thousand dollars apiece--and millions were spent in the construction of that and the Patent Office and the other great government buildings. [5]
Inlaid with precious stones in lovely patterns of flowers--5. [5]
How hard the stones and what more pitiless than the gaze of their fellow-creatures in the crowd below! [9]
Chambers did his stealing, and got the peach stones, apple cores, and melon rinds for his share. [5]
It was a stately room, surrounded by marble columns, which bore witness to the owner's wealth, for the floor was beautifully adorned with bright-hued pictures, mosaic work executed in colored stones by an artist from Syracuse. [10]
In a wild state they break open hard fruits with stones. [1]
They took no special notice of Ulrich, and after having stared sufficiently and exchanged a few words with him, continued their interrupted game of trying to throw stones over the church roof. [10]
There was a sound like the hard rattle of a creek over stones, and then another sound behind that. [11]
The emerald he sold was my property; and were those stones really so much alike that even the seller. [10]
The villages were small, the roads pretty generally wretched save in summer, and from many of the fields the most abundant crop that could be gathered was that of stones. [4]
So, taking several small stones with him, he stepped and slid down to the edge of the slope where he had left his rifle and boots. [13]
There is a sledge drawn by one poor horse, and on the front of it is a cask of water pierced with holes, so that the water squirts out and wets the stones, making it easier sliding for the runners. [4]
At last he sighed and said: "When I supposed these stones were glass and this ivory bone, the thing hadn't any interest for me because it hadn't any value, and couldn't help me out of my trouble. [5]
This was a short and stout crowbar of iron; not one of the long crowbars that farmers use to pry up stones, but a short handy one, such as you would use in digging silver-ore out of the cracks of rocks. [4]
A projecting wall sheltered the old men from the hurricane, yet they found it difficult to stand erect, even while supported by their staves and clinging to the stones of the masonry. [10]
The stones and shells are often brought from a great distance. [1]
When one was seen to enter his burrow, then all the entries to it except one--there are usually three--were plugged up with stones. [4]
I stood on Sarum's treeless plain, The waste that careless Nature owns; Lone tenants of her bleak domain, Loomed huge and gray the Druid stones. [6]
The "Shepherd of Salisbury Plain" was represented by an old man, who told all he knew and a good deal more about the great stones, and sheared a living, not from sheep, but from visitors, in the shape of shillings and sixpences. [6]
Round corners, over ruts and stones, and uphill and down, we went jolting and swinging, holding fast to the seat, and putting our trust in things in general. [4]
Except for the rough-hewn stones that held and directed the water, this willow thicket and glade had been left as nature had made it. [13]
The great peaks rose several thousand feet above the glaciers, and then, as now, shattered by sun and frost, poured down their showers of rocks and stones, in witness of which there are the immense piles of angular fragments that constitute the moraines of Ivrea. [5]
Down towards the river a sleigh was making its way over the thin snow of spring, and screeching on the stones. [11]
The crash and reverberation of the thunder did not trouble us so much as the swish of the wet branches in our faces and the horrible road, with its mud, tripping roots, loose stones, and slippery rocks. [4]
The baboons in return rolled so many stones down the mountain, some as large as a man's head, that the attackers had to beat a hasty retreat; and the pass was actually closed for a time against the caravan. [1]
An abundance of red and white roses stuck out from the front folds of his ample toga, and were held in their place by gold brooches, sparkling with precious stones of large size. [10]

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