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On the road, three children were throwing stones, and he gave them a good kick, shouting out to his comrades that it was no good breaking windows.
The stones, in spite of his orders, went on hailing, and he was astonished and terrified by these brutes he had unmuzzled, who were so slow to move and then so terrible, so ferociously tenacious in their rage.
It was simply the Grégoires, who had decided to bid farewell to the lawyer, and to cross the road to the manager's house; and they seemed so peaceful, they so clearly had the air of believing that the whole thing was a joke on the part of their worthy miners, whose resignation had nourished them for a century, that the latter, in fact, left off throwing stones, for fear of hitting this old gentleman and old lady who had fallen from the sky.
It was time, for as the Grégoires disappeared, the hail of
stones
began again.
The manager shook his head, while the tumult increased outside, and they could hear the dull crash of the
stones
against the house.
They waited on for another quarter of an hour, worn out by the noise in the street, and by the sound of the
stones
from time to time striking the closed shutters which rang out like gongs.
The brawlers were silent, and
stones
no longer struck the house; one only heard deep, full blows, those blows of the hatchet which one hears in distant woods.
He would have dragged himself up, however, if he had not begun to tremble with the fear of stones; for the crowd, which he could not see, continued to cry beneath him:"After the cat! after the cat!--Do for him!"
There was certainly a little cabin of dry
stones
there, where old Bonnemort used to take shelter when it blew a hurricane, but the order being not to leave the summit of the pit-bank, the soldier did not stir from it, his hands so stiffened by cold that he could no longer feel his weapon.
No smoke came out of the chimneys; the houses, without fire and as cold as the
stones
in the street, did not melt the thick layer on the tiles.
Every one soon had her ammunition at her feet, and the battle of
stones
began.
Beneath this shower of
stones
the little troop was disappearing.
He repeated the words with which he had intoxicated them at the time when he could keep them in hand like a faithful flock; but his power was dead, and only
stones
replied to him.
"Stones
don't fall from the sky," Conseil said, "or else they deserve to be called meteorites."
It was raining
stones
and arrows.
Armed with bows, arrows, and shields, nearly all of them carried from their shoulders a sort of net, which held those polished
stones
their slings hurl with such dexterity.
We took long strides, helped by our alpenstocks; but in general our progress was slow, because our feet kept sinking into a kind of slimy mud mixed with seaweed and assorted flat
stones.
I glimpsed piles of
stones
covered by a couple million zoophytes and tangles of algae.
Those piles of
stones
just mentioned were laid out on the ocean floor with a distinct but inexplicable symmetry.
They were huge stacks of
stones
in which you could distinguish the indistinct forms of palaces and temples, now arrayed in hosts of blossoming zoophytes, and over it all, not ivy but a heavy mantle of algae and fucus plants.
Who had set up these rocks and
stones
like the dolmens of prehistoric times?
Fifty feet below its peak, amid a shower of
stones
and slag, a wide crater vomited torrents of lava that were dispersed in fiery cascades into the heart of the liquid mass.
The terrain consisted mostly of thick slime mixed with petrified branches, but it changed little by little near four o'clock in the afternoon; it grew rockier and seemed to be strewn with pudding
stones
and a basaltic gravel called "tuff," together with bits of lava and sulfurous obsidian.
But the base of these high walls consisted of broken soil over which there lay picturesque piles of volcanic blocks and enormous pumice
stones.
The ground rose appreciably as it moved away from the sand flats by the waves, and we soon arrived at some long, winding gradients, genuinely steep paths that allowed us to climb little by little; but we had to tread cautiously in the midst of pudding
stones
that weren't cemented together, and our feet kept skidding on glassy trachyte, made of feldspar and quartz crystals.
Pudding
stones
and trachyte gave way to black basaltic rock: here, lying in slabs all swollen with blisters; there, shaped like actual prisms and arranged into a series of columns that supported the springings of this immense vault, a wonderful sample of natural architecture.
He tried to make
stones
do the work of bullets, and after several fruitless attempts, he managed to wound one of these magnificent bustards.
The ground was covered with slag, lava flows, and pumice
stones.
And there we were, climbing these blackish rocks amid sudden landslides and over
stones
slippery with ice.
It was an arduous climb over sharp lava and pumice
stones
in the midst of air often reeking with sulfurous fumes from the smoke holes.
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