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Then it would send its rays across the pool full on the face of the menhir, as it seemed.

I think that the fall of the menhir scared them, for they were yet tied where Evan left them, just before that.

The largest known is the Menhir of Locmariaquer in Morbihan, now fallen and broken.

Thus it is believed in many localities that a "menhir" in the neighbourhood turns on its axis at midnight.

Grey dolmen and grey menhir already stand there, by the last shores, memorials of his destiny.

Occasionally legend assists us to prove the mortuary character of menhir and dolmen.

A menhir is a rude monolith set up on end, a great single stone, the base of which is buried deep in the soil.

In Gilead I found a fallen menhir with a hollow artificially made in the side, as though to put something into the stone.

PALESTINECLAUDE REIGNIER CONDER

About half a mile due north-west of the church is a menhir eight feet high, situated on a mound overlooking the sea.

Then the mountain piper sunk down breathless at the foot of the Menhir.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985