You that made the heaven and the earth and all that in them is, can You no set fire to some wet whins, or change this stane into a mill-dam?
Micah rubbed his face dry, and said, "Will you let me stand on the Standing Stane and watch you gaen awa for ever and ever?
Eal Godes geladhung is ofer dham stane gebytlod, thaet is ofer Criste; fordhan dhe he is se grundweall ealra dhaera getimbrunga his agenre cyrcan.
But ere the key-stane she could make, The fient a tail she had to shake!
It is as clean as the hearth-stane of a tidy wife--and there certainly is a great improvement in it, in this respect, since I first knew it.
Now do thy speedy utmost, Meg, And win the key-stane of the brig; There at them thou thy tail may toss, A running stream they darena cross!
You see I have crossed Stane Street to-day, Dick," she said.
Once she had been shamed because of him, on Bignor Hill whereStane Street runs to Chichester, and a second time in front of him in the tent at Chitipur.
There runs Stane Street from Chichester to London and through London to the great North Wall.
And so they drew near to Gumber Corner where Stane Street climbs over Bignor Hill.
No, you don't actually remember it, Stella, but you have a feeling that round about Stane Street you once suffered great humiliation and unhappiness.
I trowed that ye had mair art about ye than to be feared for a stane an' lime wa,' an' twa or three airn staincheons.
I dinna think I clave his helmet, but I gae him sic a devil o' a knab on the temple, that he was stoundit, and fell as dead as a stane at my horse's feet.
The rebuilt parish church is imposing and stands on the site of the ancient Roman Stane Street.
At the distance of a mile south of Halnaker, Stane Street is reached at a point about four miles from Chichester.
We now join the Roman "Stane Street" from London Bridge to Chichester.
Ill pleased I was at the fule thing, that cost as muckle as would hae repaired the house from the wa' stane to the rigging-tree.
The Nine Stane Rig derived its name from an old Druidical circle of upright stones, nine of which remained to a late period.
At a place called the "Nine Stane Rig" there may still be seen a circle of stones where it is supposed this gruesome tragedy was enacted.
They dug his grave but a bare foot deep By the edge of the Nine-Stane Burn, And they covered him o'er with the heather flower, The moss and the lady fern.
But they argued that "Thear hed been many a tha afoar, but niver a stane rolled doon Wallow Crag afoar.
As it fell out upon a day They a' did put the stane, Full seven foot ayont them a' She gard the puttin-stane gang.
There is a knight in gude greenwood, If that he kent o me, Thro stock and stane and the hawthorn Sae soon's he woud come me tee.
She set a horn to her mouth, And she blew loud and shrill; Thro stock and stane and the hawthorn Brave Roger came her till.
There stands a stane in wan water, It's lang ere it grew green; Lady Maisry sits in her bower door, Sewing at her silken seam.
He came cripple on the back, Stane blind upon an ee; And sighd and said Earl Richard, I doubt this calls for me.
She hit the stane then wi her foot, And kepd it wi her knee, And spaces three aboon them a' I wyte she gard it flee.
Clean your ain door-stane before you speak o' other folks.
You hae gi'en me an insult, Angus Raith, and dinna cross my door-stane any more, till you get the invite to do so.
And if it be my lot to return to this village after ye are gane hame to your ain place, these auld withered hands will frame a stane of memorial, that your name may not perish from among the people.
When you to distant shores are gane How could I bear to tarry, Where ilka tree and ilka stane Would mind me o' my Mary?
Ilk stane wad mind me how we press'd Its half-o'erspreading heather, And how we lo'ed the least the best That made us creep thegither.
The passage about Stane Street is reprinted from the Times Literary Supplement by kind permission.
Stane Street, which is a southern continuation of Erming Street, pierced London's wall at Billingsgate, and that would therefore be the best starting point.
A quarter of a mile west is Stane Street, striking London-wards from Billingshurst, and we may follow it for a while on our way to Rudgwick, near the county's border.
Odd, we had it up the water wi' us, that there wasna a stane on the tap o' anither.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stane" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
