Stony
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As layer upon layer of sediment accumulated, pressure from all sides weighed in like a
stony
glove whose firm and enduring grip held each bone in a stabilizing embrace.
More example sentences with word stony
But it was too
stony
and full of cactus on top.
The colors reflect the composition of these asteroids, dry and
stony
in the center, water-rich and primitive towards the edge, water-rich asteroids which may have seeded the oceans and the seas that we find on our planet when they bombarded the Earth at an earlier time.
The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of
stony
sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Dorothy McGuire, swathed in furs for most of the picture, isn't a canny, clever heroine at all; when she's upset, she turns inward and
stony.
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