Citations:stone

English citations of stone

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1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
They showed him, moreover, the sling and stone with which David slew Goliath of Gath; and the sword, also, with which their Lord will kill the Man of Sin, in the day that he shall rise up to the prey.

1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass.

But even here, two men who watched the light had made a fire, that through the loophole in the thick stone wall shed out a ray of brightness on the awful sea.

Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went; and following the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, EBENEZER SCROOGE.

c. 2000, Sonya, “Femme Identity: Stone-Butch/Femme Dynamic, FTM/Femme Dynamic”, in Transensual Femme‎^[1], archived from the original on 2000-05-20:
For now, so much of my identity of "Femme" was linked to bottoming and to caring for my lover's stone... there is a great deal of loss I feel on a really essential level.

1999, Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon, The Chrome Borne:
If travel was this difficult, it was going to make escaping a stone bitch.
2004, K'Wan Foye, Street dreams, page 175:
The man who had broken up their little party was a stone gangsta.
2007, David Housewright, Dead Boyfriends, page 178:
Back then most men would have described you as being a stone babe.
2007, J. D. Robb, Born In Death:
Her widower father married my stone bitch of a mother when I was about fourteen.
2008, A. James, St. Martin's Academy: The Gifted Rule, page 64:
“Well, Bradley Wreede told Moiré George who told Julia Nickols who told Katie Kimber who told that big stone dude who told...."

2002, Jocko Weyland, The Answer Is Never: A Skateboarder's History of the World, page 71:
Ellen Berryman is a stone fox and I wouldn't mind meeting her.
2004, Lisa Scottoline, Everywhere That Mary Went, page 43:
Even the ugly headset doesn't mar her good looks. Lustrous red hair, a perfect nose, the sexiest pout in legal history. Brent is right. Delia is a stone fox.
2008, Lorna Landvik, The View from Mount Joy, page 3:
Standing at the urinal, I read the first graffiti to mar the freshly scrubbed wall or the school bathroom: Viet Nam sucks and Kristi Casey is a stone fox.