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Example sentences for "stone and"

  • Hence such violent ebullition in volcanos, and hence the emission of so much pumice-stone and ashes, which are of the same nature.

  • The place was then purified, and a large cross, made of stone and plaster, was erected on the spot.

  • Repeatedly they saw structures of stone and plaster, and occasionally showing architectural skill in the execution, if not elegance of design.

  • Finally it crossed the gorge and landed roughly on the ledge, its brownish-green armor looking unnatural against the stone and snow.

  • Not a single scraper touched the skies of Manhattan, only mangled upheavals of stone and steel.

  • It dipped, and another rose before them, frail earth punctured by an agony of stone and steel.

  • He felt new strength and courage coming to him from out of the Hill, from the roots of stone and past, and he vowed again not to surrender his spirit until every chance to kill or injure the usurper had been utterly spent.

  • This was in spite of the fact that I had first drawn the design carefully in measured squares on stone and transferred it in red to the black cylinder.

  • Pour clean water over the whole stone and coat it with strong soap-water that is permitted to dry on it.

  • Everything, composition, writing on stone and printing, was finished in fourteen days.

  • The pavements were of cinders from the Iron Works; a bed six inches thick and as hard as stone and with a surface like macadam.

  • Although they were scattered all over the waste places to-day, the heavy work was done in the Point district, where a couple hundred mansions lie in solid heaps of brick, stone and timbers.

  • On them are depicted the same hieroglyphical characters as one sees on the monuments, allowing of course for the difference and discrepancies which would occur between the work on stone and that on paper.

  • The drive thither was through one of the finest thoroughfares in the city, lined with substantially built bungalow-houses of stone and stucco, each standing in its picturesque tropical garden, a mass of bloom and waving fan-palms.

  • The lower part of the mound was formed of stone and earth, and below ground-level, digging 12 feet down, he found nothing but solid earth.

  • Another sculpture, found by Stephens, is a seat or couch carved out of a single block of stone and measuring 3 feet 2 inches in length and 2 feet in height.

  • Most interesting of all were the beautiful inscriptions on stone and marble, recently been found in the tomb of the Forty Saints.

  • Passing through a triumphal arch of stone and marble, the procession was met by hundreds of maidens and children, clothed in linen and gold, who led the way, singing and strewing flowers in the path of the heroes.

  • Their homes were wonders of stone and ivory.

  • In the distance were the famous Samarian houses of stone and marble, dark and foreboding against the moonlight.

  • First rub the brasses with turpentine, vinegar or whiskey, then with rotten-stone and a woollen cloth, and polish off with a piece of soft leather.

  • Stone and stew a quart of ripe cherries, sweeten them, place some slices of buttered toast in a deep dish, and put the stewed cherries over them.

  • It consists of a layer of cedar logs; above this a layer of small sticks, and above this again slabs of stone and mud.

  • The small room in the eastern end of the cave was located on a kind of bench or upper level, and was constructed partly of stone and partly of adobe.

  • In the French Revolution the Jacobins tore from the cathedral the statues of two hundred and thirty saints; but it was still a city of saints in stone and marble.

  • Berlin, capital of Prussia and of the German Empire, the residence of the German Emperor, is situated in the midst of a vast plain; 'an oasis of stone and brick in a Sahara of sand.

  • The ivy creeps over their conceptions in stone and marble, and the traveller exclaims in awe, 'Can it be that all this glory was created for destruction?

  • The Luther Monument is a history of Protestantism in stone and bronze.

  • Cologne is full of wonders in stone and marble, wonders in legend and story as well; and among these the cathedral holds the first place, in both art and fable.

  • Just how and why the practice was started the people cannot explain; but to this day every one who passes a kuriya will take up a stone and throw it on the pile.

  • The Arawaks proper were physically an undersized, weakly people, peaceable agriculturists, by far the most civilized of all Guiana peoples, being skilful weavers and workers in stone and gold.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    able also; curious account; dare say; dead trees; distinction from; dunno what; duties towards; little satisfaction; over twenty; passengers were; poorest countries; second degree; sometimes added; stone bridge; stone circle; stone fence; stone from; stone implements; stone knife; stone mortar; stone wall; stone walls; stones were; thousand little; two other; will denounce