"Now I was on the breast of the mountain, and wandered to and for awhile between the great heaps of
stone. At length I found, as it were, a crack in the
stone thrice as wide as a man can jump, and in length half a spear's throw, and near this crack stood great
stones blackened by fire, and beneath them broken pots and a knife of flint.
Tarzan was sure that there was another and more lovely world than that which was confined to the darkness of the four
stone walls surrounding him.
First, two round coral
stones, weighing fully forty pounds each, were placed in Tiha's arms.
As they charged, they threw
stones and cursed in shrill chorus.
these walls - these ivy-clad arcades - These mouldering plinths - these sad and blackened shafts - These vague entablatures - this crumbling frieze - These shattered cornices - this wreck - this ruin - These
stones - alas!
It was a presentiment that human thought, in changing its form, was about to change its mode of expression; that the dominant idea of each generation would no longer be written with the same matter, and in the same manner; that the book of
stone, so solid and so durable, was about to make way for the book of paper, more solid and still more durable.
It seemed to have been tunneled through the earth, the sides being lined by either slabs of
stone, or walls made by a sort of concrete.
Or even if it had been dark a practiced hand would have felt by the rein that there was something wrong in the step, and they would have got down and picked out the
stone. But this man went on laughing and talking, while at every step the
stone became more firmly wedged between my shoe and the frog of my foot.
The
stone cannot be removed from its place by any force, because the hoop and its feet are one continued piece with that body of adamant which constitutes the bottom of the island.
At his feet D'Artagnan recognized the five chalands laden with rough
stone he had seen leave the port of Pirial.
On the 4th of November fifty workmen commenced digging, in the very center of the enclosed space on the summit of
Stones Hill, a circular hole sixty feet in diameter.
The mineral waters of Arva Wai* ooze forth from the crevices of a rock, and gliding down its mossy side, fall at last, in many clustering drops, into a natural basin of
stone fringed round with grass and dewy-looking little violet-coloured flowers, as fresh and beautiful as the perpetual moisture they enjoy can make them.