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. |
The harsh and simple answer to why Scotland voted to be absorbed in 1707 is because it was bankrupt, stony broke. |
Throughout May Churchill continued to get a stony reception from the Conservative benches. |
Tope packs come in shallow and work the edges of stony reefs looking for black bream, school bass, rockling and even small dogfish. |
She could see nothing for miles but more stony peaks glittering in their mantles of silver and white. |