| At the heart of the fleshy fruit, snug within its stony kernel, lies a bitter seed that is purported to hold miraculous anti-tumour properties. |
| For day after day south of Marzuk we saw nothing but stony wastes and sand dunes with never a blade of grass or bush to relieve the aridity. |
| He let the slope on the driveway pull him down to the level pavement, juddering over the stony concrete. |
| The stony surface was tainted with red iron and calcium, something that I had learned in school. |
| The harsh and simple answer to why Scotland voted to be absorbed in 1707 is because it was bankrupt, stony broke. |
| The stony path wound up the hill past a cave shrine and spiralled between one last jumble of boulders. |
