stony
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The colors offer precious flashes of charm in this novel’s harsh, stony setting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
The last part of our journey is a climb up a stony hillside.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
They sit in stony silence because they are watching their life’s work being systematically dismantled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
They control the real-life troops as in a computer game but their faces are stony, their focus total.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025
I kept glancing at the blank, stony, pinched faces of the men and women staring at me from steps and doorways, and at the children, all white-headed just like you see them in the Appalachians.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
It seemed both more substantial and more subdued, stonier and less exuberant.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2021
But with Diana as a contrast, the Queen is suddenly less regal and a good deal stonier.
From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2020
Yet in my experience, these wines very much bore out what I would have expected to see: The Crozes-Hermitage was the most open, and the St.-Joseph more tightly wound and stonier.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2020
That being said, the dismal returns of RoboCop prove the soil in Q1 is stonier than we think. digging.
From Time ● Feb. 19, 2014
As Torak followed the sound, the ground got stonier, and the trees shrank to waist-high birch and willow.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Sarah Paulson operates under the belief that blood once flowed through even the stoniest of hearts.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2020
Mini Grey's deliciously inventive story told through illustrations with familiar speech bubble comments will make even the stoniest and least imaginative hearts and minds believe in this beautifully imagined fantasy.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2012
Only the stoniest of hearts remains unmoved during the "reveal", as the needy, war veterans and people with disabled kids are gifted the house of their dreams.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2011
He played a careful game, kept one of the stoniest poker faces in the South Pacific, and "seemed always to end up a game somewhere between $30 and $60 ahead." a wartime friend recalls.
From Time Magazine Archive
So Mr. Doolittle produced the crash and cut off the six yards, the three pairs of shoes were picked out, and the stoniest of the stone colors chosen, the parcel tied up and paid for.
From A Terrible Secret by Fleming, May Agnes
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The Crucible
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The Secret Garden
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"Lift Every Voice and Sing" by James Weldon Johnson
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