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Example sentences for "stonily"

Lexicographically close words:
stones; stonest; stoneware; stonework; stonie; stoning; stony; stoo; stooan; stood
  1. More than once, Ephie had blushed and writhed in blissful torture under these stonily staring eyes.

  2. And once more, with eyes stonily averted, his wife left him to his own company and that of the face in the glass.

  3. Maurice stood stonily while reading this, and for some moments after its quick perusal.

  4. Half an hour later, as she sat at one of the windows, staring stonily out in the shimmering sunlight of the street, she saw some of the Vigilantes returning.

  5. One fell upright, grinning stonily as if delighted by the feat.

  6. As Thady Shea gazed upon those seven stone gods which sat in the dust and grinned stonily back at him, various things suggested themselves to his fertile brain.

  7. Dumbly, dutifully, had she submitted to all his restrictions and severities, stonily watching her girlhood go, through a fading, lining and hardening of her prettiness.

  8. Yet a perverse old man had sat stonily under this sermon--had, even after so effective a baptism, neglected to undo that which he should never have done.

  9. Hedrick rose, and, looking neither to the right nor, to the left, went stonily into the house, and appeared before the powers.

  10. Then Mark, seeing in his words a certain likeness, with a difference, to his own dark visions, pressed his lips together and sate looking stonily before him.

  11. I mistrusted her concession so easily, so stonily made.

  12. He sat gazing stonily into space bounded by the yellow, burnt-up slopes of the rising ground a couple of miles away.

  13. Beldi stood stonily there as they went out, with open lips and a dull light in his eyes.

  14. A white form stood stonily motionless in the boat, and the blast kept twisting its soft garments round its body.

  15. Pedestalled high above it, the general sits his cavorting steed, with his face turned stonily down the river toward English Turn, whence come no more Britons to bombard his cotton bales.

  16. She sat erect, waving a much-ornamented fan, with her eyes fixed stonily far down the street.

  17. Outside, she sat down on a log and remained stonily oblivious as Sucatash hastily caught up several horses and dragged saddles and alforjas into position.

  18. Solange had shuddered and shrunk for a moment, but almost at once she shook herself as though casting off her repulsion and after that was stonily composed.

  19. His Grace sat very stern and upright in his chair and looked stonily at my friend.

  20. Such was the stately presence who looked stonily at us from the centre of Dr.

  21. Jane McPherson stared stonily at the back of the woman in front of her.

  22. In the light of passing street lamps he could see her face held straight ahead and her eyes staring stonily at the curtain in front.

  23. The Rajah sat still, glaring stonily upon the table, and Babalatchi gazed curiously at the perplexed mood of the man he had served so many years through good and evil fortune.

  24. Almayer let go his arm and stood very straight with his head up and shoulders thrown back, looking stonily at the multitude of suns shining in ripples of the river.

  25. I dared not look at Von Gerhard, for I knew that he was purple with suppressed mirth, so I stared stonily at the sardine sandwich and dill pickle on my plate, and felt myself growing hot and hysterical, and cold and tearful by turns.

  26. His Grace sat very stern and upright in his chair, and looked stonily at my friend.

  27. He turned and walked up the stone steps again, closely followed by his servant, and poor Oliver sat staring stonily after them.

  28. He unclosed his eyes and looked stonily out of the window.

  29. He was a stranger--this new, stonily indifferent Peter who had said very little but, in the few words he had spoken, had seemed to banish her out of his life and heart for ever.

  30. With this parting comment she quitted the room, leaving Nan staring stonily out of the window.

  31. For the first time in his life he found no response in the brown eyes, staring stonily out of the barred windows.

  32. Still there was no response in the brown eyes, staring stonily out of the barred windows.

  33. Mother hinted at terrible scenes between the woman, like a tragedy queen, and her baby, the child stormily demanding to be like other children, the mother stonily listening and never bending her ways.

  34. His mouth worked, and his eyes, the pupils standing aggressively and stonily in the center of the whites, abetted the protest of the indomitable old pioneer.

  35. Then she turned to Wingrave, who sat stonily silent.

  36. Wingrave stood stonily silent, like a figure of fate.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stonily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.