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Sentence Examples Jessica's stony expression softens and she stares at the ground for a moment. Adam nodded his acquiescence and stood to begin clearing the table in stony silence. Closer and closer the stony peaks came, the distance short enough for me to make out small boulders on the surface. The path through an entrance pavilion opens into a magical stony garden, a fragment of desert outcrop sprouting spiny cacti and frangipani. Her face was stony now, void of emotion as she burrowed into the cloak and sat on a smooth rock underneath a lime tree. The smallest spurfowl, the Hartlaub is found around stony outcrops and in sandy areas. The squirting cucumber can be found on sandy and stony ground, stone walls, grassy places, waste and fallow land. Pain stabbed at her from every direction, and she struggled to maintain her stony face. Conan followed them up the stony steps, back up to the light, the heat, and the noise. The stony path wound up the hill past a cave shrine and spiralled between one last jumble of boulders. Pegasus trots in harness, over the stony pavement, and pulls a cart or a cab behind him. It has full-size trees, sand banks leading down to a stony beach, and water cascading down a rock outcrop. 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. Throughout May Churchill continued to get a stony reception from the Conservative benches. The light drizzle had become a steady, lukewarm rain, and footing on the stony beach had become treacherous. From the pass head due south up the ridge, along a rocky escarpment then up grassy slopes to a stony summit. We avoided the first obstacle, a gully-bound stream that breaches the cliffs to run down to a stony beach, by following the path inland. Despite the best efforts of the excavators, the area was still very stony and most of the paths were pretty bumpy. The path on the south side of the river is very stony and uneven and the jolting began to tell. You can picture the rugged terrain of rocky beaches and stony slopes with ancient smouldering volcanoes standing guard over antique vines. Show More Sentences Descend back to the bottom of the stony path and head right, along the depression and start the descent to a large basin. She walks carefully along a little stony path, which winds its way between the unkempt bushes. The machine can operate in rough and stony ground inaccessible to conventional cutters. Rocky and stony soils are usually well drained, but at the same time not too fertile. Once past the houses, the enclosing walls open up and there are wonderful views along Troutbeck Park from the rough, stony track. We set out on foot from the car park, the falls being a good 10-minute walk away, on a stony path that goes up and down. I hefted my pick over my shoulder and brought it down hard on the stony wall. His blades drop with a clang on the stony steps, blood drips from his hands. Cries of disunion and secession, grown louder during the territorial debate, met with stony silence in Missouri. The floor was very stony, and her feet, covered only in silken slippers, began to get sore and she could feel a blister began to rise. Tope packs come in shallow and work the edges of stony reefs looking for black bream, school bass, rockling and even small dogfish. 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. This ecoregion is home to nine times as many stony corals as live in the Caribbean Sea and more than twice the number found in the Indian Ocean. Members of the clemency board listen mostly in stony silence and decline even to deliberate before their vote. There was no screaming, no running footsteps, no echoes across the stony surfaces. Some birds, such as the gibberbird, prefer these areas of bare stony plains. The stony soil below was covered by dense forests of live oak, Douglas fir, aspen, maple, ponderosa pine, madrone, Arizona cypress, and juniper. Some maintained a stony silence while others thought the question was ludicrous. An uncomfortable silence followed, filled with stony glares shared between me and Natasha. The stony surface was tainted with red iron and calcium, something that I had learned in school. Show More Sentences She could see nothing for miles but more stony peaks glittering in their mantles of silver and white. They're a Japanese foursome who play real stony, acidy, '70s-style guitar rock, complete with psychedelic period get-ups. I'm less impressed with the recent work, which is mostly a stony croak over monotonal and mostly inert melodies, but it's not all bad. A floatplane from Cordova has a smooth saltwater landing strip to the beach, with stony, pine-covered cliffs rising up on either side. Quinn lifted a hand to her chin, and stayed in that same stony position for a few moments before lifting a finger as if to point something out. His face was stony, eyes intent on what he was doing, his fingers racing almost invisibly across the control surface. The terrain is very rough, with an array of canyons, cliffy massifs, and stony substrates. They were moving away from the sea, over flat farmlands seamed with stony riverbeds. For a moment both of them looked at me with stony and unimpressed looks on their faces, and my heart sank. As we tour the house, there is no sign of the obsessive perfectionist whose thunderous features can silence a gallery with a single stony glare. The Princess's reaction was typically stony as judgment was handed down, betraying not a flicker of emotion. Chondrites are stony meteorites that contain small, melted beads known as chondrules and finer-grained material known as matrix. Chondrites are the main type of stony meteorite, constituting 84 percent of all witnessed meteorite falls. If the impact object was a stony carbonaceous chondrite there would be silicates all over the impact site. Even strong iron meteorites, not just weaker stony meteorites, are affected. Scampering and skittering up stony slopes we bag our coigns of vantage on the hills and sit in this thin heady oxygen. When I rose to welcome us all with a short mihi in Maori, my reception was a stunned and stony silence. I love stony beaches the best, and love searching amongst the pebbles for those of a curious shape or an unusual colour. He stepped inside the stony tunnel quickly, waiting a moment to make sure the entrance closed completely. A rainbow was shining in the sunlight above a distant waterfall at a sparkling mountain river with a stony arch of a bridge. Show More Sentences Most are stony, and of these the majority consist of chondrules, which are globules of silicate minerals, embedded in a finer-grained matrix. Then we scramble down the slope to the stony beach, and nibble on wild rose hips. Civilization rarely penetrates far into the sandy and stony depths of the desert, for there is little to sustain it in the barren reaches. Like all mail shots some probably fell on stony ground, whereas others may have attracted a little interest. A parachute centre's plans to extend the number of days it operates fell on stony ground when the application came before the town council. It clings tenuously to the stony mountainside in a thin line of hairpins before dropping out of sight. A grin cracked across the man's stony face, and a twinkle gleamed from his eyes. The young male dragon emerged fully from the dilapidated nest, his tiny claws softly tapping the stony cave floor as he took his first step. Although it occurred some two or three weeks ago, the local police have maintained a stony silence with respect to the theft. While you're here you can make the pilgrimage to Ground Zero and stand on the viewing platform to stare at the stony emptiness below. The harsh and simple answer to why Scotland voted to be absorbed in 1707 is because it was bankrupt, stony broke. It was on the stony stretch of waterway overlooking Wexford town that she drowned their daughters and then killed herself. Much of this carpet of herbs is on shallow gravelly and stony soils, too poor for buffel, or under mulga trees. Higher up the ridge underfoot conditions improve where the ground becomes stony. He let the slope on the driveway pull him down to the level pavement, juddering over the stony concrete. Steep slopes underlain by stony soils form appealing vineyard sites, but they can be susceptible to rapid soil erosion during storms. Weathered igneous and metamorphic rocks generally result in stony, well-drained, and relatively unfertile soils. You almost feel as if you're walking those cold stony streets with him, breathing the scent of smoke and coffee, hearing the rhythms of the city. The tarmac then gives way to a stony track which is navigable by most pushchairs, assisted wheelchair users and powerchairs. The road was now a stony, unsurfaced single track that had been hewn out of the sheer mountainside, hundreds of metres above the valley floor. Show More Sentences The trail descends, as stony as a streambed but never smooth, for these rocks are angular, unworn by steadily running water. The following day she was proclaimed by heralds with flourishes of trumpets at various places in London, to the stony disapproval of the citizens. This means there are a lot of different groups and sub-types of iron meteorite and they can be related to both stony achondritic and chondrite meteorites. Where the stony track turns sharp left and levels out, head straight on through a gate up along a track climbing to reach another gate at the top of the hill. Barely a regular structure, road or building broke the contours of the mountainsides, whose ragged, stony slopes rose straight from the shore to a thousand feet. One minute you're in a sharp, spluttering, stony riffle, and then you're in a swift, frictionless, swirling run, or in a deep slow pool of long vowels and slow consonants. The lowest track is also the youngest part of the flora and the larch trees in the stony environment are a different picture from the old arolla pines above. The sky changes from royal blue to the deepest red, the smell of sweet lemon trees wafts through the air as the geckos start to scrabble around on the stony ground. When the roots create a dense network on stony soils it is better gradually to remove loose stones in order to prevent any damage, which may be caused by their movement. Together, they have scaled the stony scramble of Stirrup Crag at Yewbarrow, hit the heights of Helvellyn twice and negotiated the precarious pathway of Striding Edge. Rey, after sitting for long hours in stony silence, eventually gave the police her last name. Sara Sonnack, a stony Brook journalism major who will be a senior next year, says she hopes she can make the trip. Havel was a hero who shrugged off the title, understandably uncomfortable with the assumptions of stony perfection. The stony silence of IRS is compelling thousands of us to hire tax counsel and to proceed at our own risk and expense. It was dry at low tide and filled quickly as the tide came in, the sides of the bay were stony and the bay itself was sandy with large mussel beds. Also look for shingle banks, areas of mixed mud and stony ground that holds numbers of dabs, and the ends of headlands that jut out to sea where a tide race forms. I smile while ordering, but her face stays stony, reminding me of a rock. She cast it aside forcefully and with stony eyes, turned to Dimitri. The towers and turrets of the castle rose above the trees like huge stony fingers, and the late evening sun was bathing it in a glorious golden peachy light. The soils in this mountainous region of Portugal are shallow and stony. Show More Sentences The road traverses sandy and stony desert and mountainous terrain. Here are the high plains and deeply-cleft bocage country of Normandy, the stony, prehistoric wilds of Brittany, and the richly-planted riversides of the Seine and the Loire. And like the New Testament parable of the sower and the seed, it remains to be seen whether the pope's prayers will fall on stony ground or whether they bear much fruit. The carcasses of the dead seals were found a week ago scattered on the stony shore at Beginish Island, close to the Great Blasket and about three miles from Dunquin. And off they went again, up the stony, twisting path, bending over beneath their loads and a natural inclination to avoid the rain as much as possible. He took to the stony path, not minding where he put his feet. If you hike down the steep, stony path on the opposite side, you come to a small, swimming-pool-size basin of water, covered in a green carpet of duckweed. He frowned, and started to retrace his steps up a stony path leading away. The surface varies from a stony path to a rutted lane to a broad carpet of grass, all of it passable on a touring bike with the exception of 100 yards or so towards the end. With a low growl of irritation, Simon continued to dash after his cousin, gliding along the cold, stony pavement like a blur of auburn, tan, and gray. To pass the time, he stared at the stony bluffs surrounding the path. Nick looked at Carolyn impassively, his face stony from lack of emotion. He turned to the others and was met by two identical stony glares. The doctor expected a shrug, stony silence or some sort of sarcastic hiss. Jared looks over at me, and raises his eyebrows at my stony glare. But I was going through a reclusive and non-communicative phase, and his efforts to talk to me, to establish genuine communication, were met with a stony and moody silence. He stood in the doorway, a stony expression covering his face. The prime minister's offer will fall on stony ground, however. The book actually began in Malaysia, during a four hour taxi ride, when the author's mind conjured up a scene which he knew was just too good to let fall on stony ground. If even a handful of anthropologists were naive and unwitting collaborators of colonialism, and there is not much evidence of it here, their efforts fell on stony ground. Show More Sentences A suggestion of trying Gandhi's method falls on stony ground. The sunrays reflected off each tiny crystal of the chandelier, lighting up the dark stony walls of the hall revealing pictures and portraits of the kings long before. The soldier just stared back at him, expression fixed and stony. She jerked her head at me in a curt nod and remained looking stony. The woman looked middle aged with dark black hair shot with stony gray. It is generally hilly, with thin, stony clay soils, and contains few areas suitable for farming. A meteor appears when a particle or chunk of metallic or stony matter called a meteoroid enters the earth''s atmosphere from outer space. Far away, on the stony garrigues by the fading light of the harvest moon one could hear the musical calling of wolves. This process can form a stony or metallic core, surrounded by a mantle and an outer crust. Pulsation had ceased. For three days the body was preserved unburied, during which it had acquired a stony rigidity. Polyps resemble little upside down jellyfish, For protection, they build stony cup-shaped houses called corallites around their soft bodies. We arrived in Delhi stony broke, and resigned ourselves to selling the van and hitching home. Since last May the Tory regime has told us repeatedly that UK United is stony broke. Hammer hero Mark Dry has admitted he's still stony broke despite his Commonwealth Games bronze. There is also Copacabana Beach, a stony beach on the Lapad peninsula, named after the popular beach in Rio de Janeiro. These were usually annular forts, with one or more concentric earthen or stony walls, with a trench in front of each one. They are built mostly of small stony grains, called chondrules, barely a millimeter in diameter. Damsel and dragon flies skimmed over the water and caddis flies dragged their stony homes behind them in the mill stream. A big round grey rock, like the upper half of an egg, poked out of the water about a mile from the stony headland. Her soul is bruised by the taunts of children, her feet by the stony ground under her traditional kamik. Show More Sentences It is used for shallow tillage, normally with a tang share, in dry, stony soils. Disk plows also are better suited to rough, stony, and rooty ground because the disks ride over the obstructions. The larger shallow sand and stony reefs have been equipped with light signaling in modern times. Role of warm stratification in promoting germination of seeds of Empetrum hennaphroditum, a circumboreal species with a stony endocarp. Ask students to imagine that they are examining a stony meteorite and an iron meteorite that have fallen from the sky. The summit of Swirl How is marked by a fine cairn on a stony top, built close to the Greenburn edge of the ridge. Apart from sandy and stony reefs, extensive cold water coral reefs, mostly of Lophelia, are growing in Skagerrak. The eastern arm of Swirl How leads down the stony slope of Prison Band to the depression at Swirl Hawse. The summit area is extremely stony, striking pale rocks being much in evidence. We've come to connect thick knifed impasto with a Wales-by-numbers approach to rainy, stony landscape. My soil's too stony to make a Dutch hoe effective, and the tool that works best is a three-pronged cultivator. Placed at regular intervals, a series of cairns can be used to indicate a path across stony or barren terrain, even across glaciers. A chocolate-brown colony of brain coral, nearly 8 inches wide, has grown on the stony surface, its distinctive fleshy, serpentine folds nearly covering the rock. Lucifer, which is Latin for light-bearer, is a wash of stony Casio soul flourishes and vibey Parisian coos, set adrift on dank, bass-reverb bliss. She is very curious to see what Maureen, the receptionist, looks like when abstracted from that stern matronly gaze etched irremovably into her stony forbidding features. Blinking in a yellowlit housewindow two faces fixed aspectant in some domestic tragedy. Rapid his progress who petrifies these innocents into stony history. The Crankshaw family have a problem, they are stony broke, so broke that Danny Thumper, the bailiff, and his two guard dogs, Love and Hate, are after all their belongings. The river here is broad and gently flowing in meanders in a stony channel. For protection, they build hard, cup-shaped houses called corallites around their soft bodies.The new polyp remains attached to its parent and builds its own stony corallite. Vineyards in these regions offer stony soil and favorable conditions for producing excellent crisp, fresh Sauvignon Blanc with intense fruit and grassiness flavors. Show More Sentences The Kattegat is a rather shallow sea and can be very difficult and dangerous to navigate, due to the many sandy and stony reefs and tricky currents that often shift. Examples from Classical Literature Here Victor's lip quivered, for Monnier griped him by the arm, and looked him in the face with wild stony eyes. There is hardly a shaduf to be seen and very little cultivation, it is either desert or stony hills on each side. This is one of the ordinary stony meteorites, and is thus contrasted with the Rowton siderite which we have just been considering. The road over the cleland Hills was much wilder than they expected, and it was very stony and bad. The ground is stony, and scarce any thing but gravel, mixt with a little earth. Peter could gain no competence from the stony farm, no consent from the girl. After descending from Bethphage for about half a mile by a very steep and stony path, we come to the village of Bethany. Rend Subhadra's stony bosom with a mother's cureless grief, Let her follow Abhimanyu and in death obtain relief! The water-courses were ineffably stony, and, of course, there were no bridges. The numerous streams which cross the stony pathway all flow to the south, uniting their waters with the Salado de Moron. So still was the crowd, and so reverberant the air, that they could hear the man's footsteps on the stony hillside. The nonmagnetic stony asteroids are an absolute necessity for the Belt Cities. Descended towards the plains over stony rises, with gum-tree, lancewood, and other scrub and spinifex. Away up the long stony hill, scrambling and scrabbling, but never ceasing till they reached the level prairie at the top. They sat down on the sour stony land among the ragwort and teazles and feverfew. No substance is so favourable to nitrification as the natural stony concretion known under the name of lime-tuf. They sat down on the sour stony land among the rag-wort and teazles and feverfew. My first great sporting achievement was in killing a duiker, a small antelope that was found in bushy or stony country. At this time, young Dunlap was introduced to the stony paths of playwriting. Above these rocks we look up the stony bed of the frantic river and meet the blue mass of a distant mountain. Show More Sentences Below the rock-face we came back to snow grass and stony creeks, and so to last night's camping ground. There is only the footway to pierce it, crooked and steep and stony from the start. What geologist would not wish to try his hammer on those rocks with their stony pages of fossilized history? A waning moon had risen, and in its faint light the water of the brook glimmered coldly as it wimpled over the stony ford. Leaving Gayle behind, we climb up a steep and stony road above the beck until we are soon above the level of green pasturage. This is earthy and brittle, not stony, like the shells of mollusks. His stony, unwinking stare was fixed on the planks of the deck. The road between Baku and Tiflis runs through a stony, desolate country. It was a stony smile, humorless as a crevasse in a rock-face. The country at the foot of the range was very stony, rough, and scrubby. His eyes were bent fixedly before him, and throughout his whole countenance there reigned a stony rigidity. And her eyes followed me with a kind of stony remorse which struck a chill to my bleeding heart. Her spirit felt as bruised as a fledgeling fallen upon stony ground. And yet, in spite of the killing pace and the stony track, who but the sluggard or the dolt can hold aloof from the course? But it was stony Mountain that was of most importance to the British. His horrible pleading fell on stony ears, and he changed his tune. To his further remonstrances she interposed a stony silence. The Sunday People saw an inflatable boat packed with 47 Syrians land on a stony Lesbos beach near the capital Mytilene at dawn. Their absolute steepness is indicated in the photograph which I took over the stony desert. They tell us what it is, a third-rate city in a stony wilderness. Show More Sentences Dunstan, stony and snappish, was carrying the picnic impedimenta. The white petals re-entered their red cases, the flowers faded as I looked, and the bush changed into a block of stony knobs. Down into the bosom of a stony shepherdess there steals a fleck of light and warmth that would have done it good a hundred years ago. In about three hours the Victoria was crossing with extreme rapidity an expanse of stony country, with ranges of lofty, naked mountains of granitic formation at the base. The Suruc plain is an arid, stony, grassless and vast flatland. He lost the track, however, on the stony ground beyond the stream where I had seen the Beast Man drinking, and went wandering aimlessly westward shouting Moreau's name. It was as though all his castles in the air had come toppling about his ears, the blue sky had turned to stony grey and the sweet waltz music had become a dirge. It was Phaethon who drove them to Fiesole that memorable day, a youth all irresponsibility and fire, recklessly urging his master's horses up the stony hill. A stony business altogether, with heavy stone balustrades, and stone urns, and stone flowers, and stone faces of men, and stone heads of lions, in all directions. The ten-day, 100 kilometre trip of a lifetime encompasses some of the world's unique landscapes, from stony, flat expanses to windblown sand dunes. Archibald Craven, who lived at Misselthwaite Manor, she looked so stony and stubbornly uninterested that they did not know what to think about her. I could not say which, for eyes were open and stony, but without the glassiness of death,and the cheeks had the warmth of life through all their pallor. Find more words! 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