In the morning, at dawn of day, we set off along shore in search of landing, and about ten o'clock we discovered a stony cove at the N W part of the island, where I dropt the grapnel within 20 yards of the rocks.
He saw and heard her in stony silence, apparently as indifferent to her tactics as she to his presence, but he was only biding his time.
Those who reach it have to do so by a steep and stony path, which we may take, if we will, as a symbol; and it is often difficult to stand in the graveyard because of the fierce winds that beat upon it.
Whether characters are reclaimed or no, there is an effort to reclaim the moor, which is the typical stony ground of the parable; and the gradual enclosure of parts that were formerly public is a result.
Now he was thinking, and at the bottom of his stonymeditation he beholds a pale, dreadful visage.
The worthy father had soon a satisfactory proof of the truth of their information, for the very place was found where a rock had burst and exploded from its entrails a stony mass, like a bomb-shell, and of the size of a bull's heart.
Then he pushed her from him with great violence, so that she fell heavily upon the stony ground.
Two important cases of “stony excrescence” of the gums (probably osteomas) are to be found in Chapter XXXII.
In one or two instances joined stalactites and stalagmites form pillars with bunches of formation all about them like stony efflorescence.
There are deep brown and delicate fawn-coloured banks, which seem as though they were covered with a stony network.
But the effect of water power is everywhere observable in graceful contours, caused by continuous motion, or in stony efflorescence, produced by intermittent humidity or dryness of the atmosphere.
If we pass that without being seen, we have nothing more to fear, for between this and the river there is only stony ground, without a vestige of vegetation, and quite uninhabited.
The country in these parts was flat, broken now and then by solitary shrubs, with here and there small stony hillocks.
An attempt was even made to lay out a garden on the stonyground within the enclosure.
Climbing down from the plateau in the darkness we reached a valley lying between stony hills.
He had quitted the village only the day before; and, dividing amongst the men the corn we found, we continued our march over most rugged country, alternate steep hills and deep valleys, and here and there a stony plain.
They had been given a patch of stony ground to the west of the town, where they had been ordered to build fresh houses.
In the year of his bereavement, before the beautiful brilliant cousin of his dead Alison came and seized on his life, the widower had spent days and nights of stony despair standing by her grave.
So Maggie was married, the old woman preserving her stony silence and apparent unconcern.
There were no stony walls here though--only a few slight boards between the gazers and the mystery whose solution they were so eager to read.
A city, like this of which we speak, seems a sort of stony growth out of the hillside, or a fossilized town; so ancient and strange it looks, without enough of life and juiciness in it to be any longer susceptible of decay.
It is at all times rather too stony in its aspect; and is apt to remind one almost painfully of every weird and sorrowful story treasured in the storehouse of memory.
It's getting cold, my dear, and it's high time the mistress of Marchmont should retire to her stony bower.
Symbolic Gem she wore fixed him with its stony yet mesmeric luster .
She paused and gave an upward glance at Villiers, who returned it with a blank and stony stare.
Those cast upon stony ground will grow a short time, but lacking deep roots will wither away.
For example, certain minerals come from the stony regions of the earth.
Should rain fall upon salty, stony earth, it will never have effect; but when it falls upon good pure soil, green and verdant growth follows, and fruits are produced.
She whom the Saint courted in the stony fields Where clear Through the thin trees the skies appear In delicate spare soil and fen, And slender landscape and austere was not the modern maiden-- Ah!
And the night palpitated with the beat of horses' feet upon the hard sand and against the stony ford of the parched river as the Pindari horsemen swept to Rajgar as if they rode in the sack of a city.
As Barlow staggered, almost blind, over the stony path from the cloister, he saw the group of sixteen Brahmins, their foreheads and arms carrying the white bars of Siva.
The latter is often the case, because the name is applied also to slippery elm and white elm if they grow on stony ground.
It is at its best among the mountains, thrives in deep ravines where the shade is dense, and on steep slopes and stony mountain tops.
They refer to the hardness of the wood, or they may have in mind the dry, stony situations where tough, strong elm grows.
The strongest hickory, ash, and oak do not come from stony land.
TEXAS CAT'S CLAW (Acacia wrightii) is a hardluck tree of western Texas where it is usually found on dry, gravelly hills and instony ravines.
It grows in narrow, rocky ravines, on stony ridges, and it clings to the faces of cliffs, or hangs on their summits as tenaciously as the western juniper of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
It is called rock elm when it is found on stony uplands, and swamp elm on low wet ground.
It maintains its existence under adverse circumstances, its home being on dry, stony ridges, cold and stormy in winter, and subject to excessive drought during the brief growing season.
It clings to stony peaks and wind-swept ridges where the ungainly trunks are welcome to the traveler, miner, or sheepherder who is in need of a shed to shelter him, or a fire for his night camp.
Trees in the stony canyon of Devil's river, in Texas, are in full bearing when so small that a man can stand on the ground and pick walnuts from their highest branches.
In a little time, a wild stony gorge confronted me, a stream ran down the gorge with hollow roar, a bridge lay across it.
In the morning at dawn of day we rowed along shore in search of a landing-place, and about ten o'clock we discovered a cove with a stony beach at the north-west part of the island, where I dropped the grapnel within 20 yards of the rocks.
Is n't it like splitting a toad out of a rock to think of this man of nineteen or twenty centuries hence coming out from his stony dwelling-place and speaking with us?
