stumbling stone

Example Sentences

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Patronage is the stumbling stone here to true political action.

From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

This Anton thought to be a thing wondrously sound and orthodox, and he saw in the child's word the stumbling stone of our mother Eve.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

"It is their stumbling stone; the rock of their offense."

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 by Walker, Aaron

Thou stumbling stone, thou barrier 'thwart 650     The gates of endless life!

From Elias An Epic of the Ages by Whitney, Orson F.

For they have stumbled at the stumbling stone.

From The first New Testament printed in English by