992 examples of stony in sentences

Boomery's stony, except for his screw.

For the first few nights, with their guns popping off all round, and with blasting operations in full swing, an almost continuous echo travelled round and round the stony hillsides and made me dream that I was sleeping beside a stormy sea breaking in endless waves on a rocky coast.

" His stony look of repression had left him.

180 XXI Such tale of this lone mansion she had learned, And, when that shape, with eyes in sleep half drowned, By the moon's sullen lamp she first discerned, Cold stony horror all her senses bound.

I always wished I might gather a group of stony-hearted men and women in that room and see them melt under the magic of the scene.

Some came from other oases in the salt and stony plains where once an inland sea covered all, while the others hailed from the north where the Sierras de Guara rise merging into the giant Pyrenees.

Amid the solitary grandeur of the least known mountains in Europe it rolls and tumblestossed hither and thither in its rocky bed, fed by this and that streamlet from stony gorgesdown to the green valley of Torre Garda.

"I'll give her a regular shaking up; it'll make her hold her tongue and do her good," he said to himself, as a stony hill sloped temptingly before him.

"She's comin' right in on the stony point sou'east

I have lived here, here in Detton Magna, among the smuts and the mists, where the flowers seem withered and even the meadows are stony, where the people are hard and coarse as their ugly houses, where virtue is ugly, and vice is ugly, and living is ugly, and death is fearsome.

" Mrs. Marston looked at the girl with a gaze of stupefied, stony terror; not a muscle of her face moved; not one heaving respiration showed that she was living.

"You have not seen the catastrophe of the tragedy yet," said Marston, with a stern, stony look, made more horrible by a forced smile and something like a shudder.

A question was haunting him, a question which he could not thrust from him: he was going to marry Maude Falconer, going to take the hard and stony road of duty which Ida, in her noble way, had pointed out to him.

Their shoes were well suited for travel through the wilderness and in stony countries.

"First, you nearly strangle one, and then" Her soft arm stole about his neck, and her warm breath swept his cheek as, stony-faced, he trudged along.

She walked in spirit the stony pavement of the Kremlin.

After this the good broad carriage-road soon came to an end, and the easy gradient changed to a steep path among a grove of nothing but beeches, which emerged later on the slope of a somewhat bare and stony hill dotted with a few gentians.

" She lifted her dark and very beautiful eyes to her stony parent, then they dropped, and she began tracing figures and arabesques on the polished floor with the point of her foil.

However, in about half an hour his expression of stony malignity changed to a smile so cunningly devilish that, as he caught sight of himself in the mirror, his corrugated countenance really startled him.

He has forgotten the care and economy learned among the cold and stony hills of New England, and wants to do everything on a large scale.

Those who have visited Baden-Baden and her Kursaal sisters in the height of the season need not be told that no "church-face" ever equalled in solemnity the countenances of those who surround the fatal tables, waiting for the stony lips of the croupier to announce "Noir perd" or "Rouge gagne."

I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles.

" Then there was silence on the battlements; No sound was heard but the slow measured clang Of feet that paced the stony path below; Gwendolaine pushed aside the wind-blown hair From her wild eyes, and gazed into Sanpeur's.

Ah, that tall lank preacher, who thought himself a failure: how long I shall remember him and the words he read and the mournful yet resonant cadences of his voiceand the barren church, and the stony religion!

On a steep stony hill in Greece there lived in early times a few very poor people who had not yet learned to build houses.

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