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Example sentences for "throw stones"

  • And I'm to ask you not to throw stones in the churchyard," he added, shaking his stick playfully.

  • Don't you like me to throw stones at the birds?

  • No, but it's a jackdaw, and you always want to throw stones at jackdaws.

  • Let maritime maniacs, wetted with spray, Discourse on a cleat or a cringle-- But let me throw stones in the water all day And roll on the sand and the shingle!

  • Good-bye,—and, let me see, I think you promised never to throw stones at rooks again.

  • Would you like anybody to throw stones at you?

  • Only let the next animal that he is going to kill or throw stones at, call out to him, and tell him not to do so.

  • Are you going to throw stones at me to-day?

  • I'll throw stones at the cow again and make her run at folks.

  • Alphonse wanted to throw stones at them, but his mother prevented him.

  • She threw it down as she entered, and was somewhat astonished on seeing with her nurse the very ladies whom she had splashed, and the young gentleman who was going to throw stones at her.

  • It would be a good joke," said he, "if it turned out to be my cousin, at whom I was going to throw stones.

  • They stoned a boy who left a group singly, and it was lawful for him to throw stones back at the rest, if the whim took him, when he got a little way off.

  • They came out of their houses, or front-yards, and began to throw stones, when they were on perfectly good terms, and they usually threw stones in parting for the day.

  • It was noted long ago how boys throw stones, for instance, at a tree, and feign to themselves that this thing or that, of great import, will happen or not as they hit or miss the tree.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been through; brought him; commonly called; different sort; great coat; great reason; last session; love will; mythical origin; not easy; passed several; quite likely; said poor; special sense; then ready; though not; throw away; throw down; throw herself; throw himself; throw light; throw them; throwing stones; thrown down; thrown open; thrown over