Stone in example sentence

The stone was uneven and broken, and the letters were straggling and irregular, but the following fragment of an inscription was clearly to be deciphered:--[cross] B I L S T u m P S H I S. M. ARKMr. Pickwick's eyes sparkled with delight, as he sat and gloated over the treasure he had discovered.

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Now for an intelligent being like our fly, this policy is not written in stone but rather changes as the animal learns from experience.

The oldest stone tools are choppers from the Olduvai Gorge in East Africa.

These crude tools were around for thousands of centuries, until around 1.4 million years ago when Homo erectus started shaping single, thin stone blades, sometimes rounded ovals, but often in what are to our eyes an arresting, symmetrical pointed leaf or teardrop form.

So the next time you pass a jewelry shop window displaying a beautifully cut teardrop-shaped stone, don't be so sure it's just your culture telling you that that sparkling jewel is beautiful.

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