Yet when they saw it was a man that rushed upon them, they were seized with sudden fear and fled this way and that, leaping by great bounds from the place of rock, which is the knees of the
stone Witch, so that presently I stood alone in front of the cave.
Nada The Lily
As the contestants came opposite where Bashti and Aora his prime minister stood, they redoubled their efforts, Wiwau goading enthusiastically, Tiha jumping with every thrust to the imminent danger of dropping the
stones. At their heels trooped the children of the village and all the village dogs, whooping and yelping with excitement.
Jerry of the Islands
They struck at each other, clinched, and rolled over on the cobble
stones.
Maggie A Girl of the Streets
For, let us insist upon this point, masonry must not be thought to be powerful only in erecting the temple and in expressing the myth and sacerdotal symbolism; in inscribing in hieroglyphs upon its pages of
stone the mysterious tables of the law.
Notre Dame de Paris
The
stone did not give the fraction of the breadth of a hair.
Tom Swift In The Land Of Wonders
Then holding it up he said, "There, that's the
stone your horse had picked up.
Black Beauty
For which the astronomers (who have written large systems concerning the
stone) assign the following reason: that the magnetic virtue does not extend beyond the distance of four miles, and that the mineral, which acts upon the
stone in the bowels of the earth, and in the sea about six leagues distant from the shore, is not diffused through the whole globe, but terminated with the limits of the king's dominions; and it was easy, from the great advantage of such a superior situation, for a prince to bring under his obedience whatever country lay within the attraction of that magnet.
Gullivers Travels
The man with the feathers went up to the
stone, stooped, slipped his hands under the face lying upon the ground, stiffened his Herculean muscles, and without a strain, with a slow motion, like that of a machine, he lifted the end of the rock a foot from the ground.
Ten Years Later
Our business is to construct a cannon measuring nine feet in its interior diameter, six feet thick, and with a
stone revetment of nineteen and a half feet in thickness.
From The Earth To The Moon
There are in every part of the valley a great many of these massive
stone foundations which have no houses upon them.
Typee
If I speak truth, the goat-skin with the
stones will lie upon the floor; and if there is truth as to whether it is death to enter here, that ye will learn afterwards.
King Solomons Mines
We went to the quarry from whence the
stones of Baalbec were taken.
The Innocents Abroad
This remonstrance being received with yells and flying
stones, according to a custom of late years comfortably established among the police regulations of our English communities, where Christians are stoned on all sides, as if the days of Saint Stephen were revived, Durdles remarks of the young savages, with some point, that 'they haven't got an object,' and leads the way down the lane.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
What winds conveyed this hurry to the grizzled mender of roads, already at work on the hill-top beyond the village, with his day's dinner (not much to carry) lying in a bundle that it was worth no crow's while to peck at, on a heap of
stones? Had the birds, carrying some grains of it to a distance, dropped one over him as they sow chance seeds?
Tale Of Two Cities
Mutely marching over the scornful clinking of pebbles, trampling the
stone that let it slip: thus did my foot force its way upwards.
Thus Spake Zarathustra