Ye nece myn, that ring moste han a stoon That mighte dede men alyve maken; And swich a ring trowe I that ye have noon.
Ye, nece myn, that ring moste han a stoon That mighte dede men alyve maken; And swich a ring, trowe I that ye have noon.
And the fletinge streem, that royleth doun dyversly fro heye mountaignes, is arested and resisted ofte tyme by the encountringe of a stoon that is departed and fallen from som roche.
Aboute him lefte he no masoun, That stoon coude leye, ne querrour; He hired hem to make a tour.
The stoonwas hard [as] ademant, Wherof they made the foundement.
Right so a jewel 100 betokeneth a gemme, and that is a stoon vertuous or els a perle.
For who that ever set his trust upon The report of the eyen, withouten more, 170 He might be deed and graven under stoon Or ever he shulde his hertes ese restore.
And Plato answerde unto him anoon, (900) 'Tak the stoon that Titanos men name.
Ther lakketh no-thing to thyn utter yën That thou nart blind, for thing that we seen alle That it is stoon, that men may wel espyen, 500 That ilke stoon a god thou wolt it calle.
Eek if a man, by caas or aventure, shete an arwe or caste a stoon with which he sleeth a man, he is homicyde.
I rede thee, lat thyn hand upon it falle, And taste it wel, and stoon thou shalt it finde, Sin that thou seest nat with thyn yën blinde.
Considereth eek, how that the harde stoon Under our feet, on which we trede and goon, Yit wasteth it, as it lyth by the weye.
And the noyse which that I herde, For al the world right so hit ferde, As doth the routing of the stoon That from thengyn is leten goon.
I rede thee, lat thyn hand upon it falle, And taste it wel, and stoon thou shalt it finde"; Ch.
Item, I will that in semblable wise a marble stoon of a convenyent me .
A stoon wil drawe the wighte of a pipe, as I suppose; the gret stones and nought the smallere stones shuld be sawed, so that every pece sawed shud holde the seid lengthe of iij.
And sende ye me word how mech more yn value yn a stoon shall I syle my wolle, and how [much?
To enquerre and wyte whether the stoon may be sawed or nought.
And the bilding of the wall thereoff was of the stoon iaspis and the citee it silff was cleen gold lyk cleen glas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stoon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
