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Penelope summoned her last reserves of pluck and returned to her stony seat by the fire.

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The carriage bounced and rattled along the stony streets, at times so violently it seemed as if the wheels would shatter.

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As a Colored woman, my neck had constantly been beneath the stony foot of racial segregation, so collapsing under the weight of a bad twist of fate was a luxury I did not have.

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They control the real-life troops as in a computer game but their faces are stony, their focus total.

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Waves rolled across the water and pounded the stony beaches.

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