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Example sentences for "grey stone"

  • I saw, standing desolate in the basin of mountains, an old house of grey stone, very square, very plain, very resolute and staunch of physiognomy.

  • Suddenly, after a steep ascent, we saw before us a tall, lonely mass of grey stone, built upon the rock.

  • The heavy, overhanging roofs were thatched, and of enormous thickness; the walls of grey stone, with roughly carved, skeleton balconies.

  • Then raising his hands he blessed him and said: "Ride, my son, to the margin of the waters, and then cross the grey sea until you come to the palace of grey stone and to your lady mother who lives only in her memories.

  • Furthermore, Prince Vladimir, I have thirty young men in my hire, each one a master shoemaker.

  • The harper went back to Novgorod the Great, and it all happened as the Water Tsar had spoken up to the time when the boasters had said their say.

  • To him even the Terrible Tsar seemed to have lost his terror.

  • A grey stone statue, in its stillness, is a graceful object amid the rushing of water!

  • The road to the monastery is marked by small pillars of grey stone, not more than a quarter of a mile asunder.

  • The town of Peebles looks very pretty from the road in returning: it is an old town, built of grey stone, the same as the castle.

  • Our road turned to the right, and we saw, at the distance of less than a mile, a tall upright building of grey stone, with several men standing upon the roof, as if they were looking out over battlements.

  • The town itself is not ugly; the houses are of grey stone, the streets not very narrow, and the market-place decent.

  • Here again we have the great wide street with a profusion of grey stone gables on either side, and projecting inn signs, and sundials in profusion.

  • The village street, like Broadway, consists of rows of grey stone gables, at the end of which stands the sundial-surmounted cross.

  • Like Hatfield House, which in many respects it resembles, it is built of red-brick with stone coigns, and the time-toned warm colour is acceptable in this county of grey stone.

  • And thou, grey Stone, the pensive likeness keep 10 Of a dark chamber where the Mighty sleep: For more than Fancy to the influence bends When solitary Nature condescends To mimic Time's forlorn humanities.

  • The house itself is of grey stone, built in the time of Henry VIII.

  • It, like the jhils on the road, wound in and out among the hills, and, on the bund side, was bounded by a hill of black rock crowned with a chhatri of grey stone.

  • We went up a hill by way of a flight of grey stone slabs.

  • Build also a bridge of grey stone close by, for I would not forget the wants of my people.

  • The houses are strongly built of grey stone, and where there are fields, grey stone walls divide them, for hedges cannot grow on these windy, storm-swept heights.

  • Not only are the walls of grey stone, but they are roofed with slabs of stone also, and these weather to beautiful shades of green and grey, and blend perfectly with the prevailing hue.

  • Emerging from a tangle of plantations, we traverse a few rough pasture fields and soon come to the Heath Chapel, a small, ancient edifice, standing all alone in a green meadow, with sheep browsing leisurely around its grey stone walls.

  • Returning now to Castle Gates, we bend our steps towards a dignified-looking pile of grey stone buildings, standing a little back from the roadway.

  • On the summit of Haworth Hill, beyond the street, stands a grey stone house, which is shown as the original of 'Wuthering Heights.

  • We pass through a series of them, all more or less alike and all built mainly of grey stone, for we are near the moors.

  • The exterior is of grey stone, varied by blocks of red volcanic rock; here and there carved slabs of such rock have been inserted, a familiar feature in Armenian architecture.

  • The interior is of grey stone, and it is disposed in four semicircles.

  • Besides this temple the Gregorian Armenians have three churches, of which the most considerable is a large structure in grey stone, named after the Virgin Mary.

  • In the centre of the city is the Cathedral, a fine building of grey stone with a noticeable spire, standing in an open grassy square.

  • Most of them are built of grey stone, and all stand in prominent places, where they can easily be found and admired.

  • There is a church of grey stone with a spire, and other churches of less imposing appearance; a large red brick post-office with a tall clock tower, as well as several banks and hotels.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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