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Stony   /stˈoʊni/   Listen
Stony

adjective
(compar. stonier; superl. stoniest)
1.
Abounding in rocks or stones.  Synonyms: bouldered, bouldery, rocky.  "Stony ground" , "Bouldery beaches"
2.
Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings.  Synonyms: flint, flinty, granitic, obdurate.  "The child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
3.
Hard as granite.  Synonyms: granitelike, granitic, rocklike.



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"Stony" Quotes from Famous Books



... they were compelled to discard their overalls. Their foot gear was totally inadequate against the thorns and stony ground. Without water and with only a bar of chocolate between them they experienced terrible hardships before they ...
— Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force • Percy F. Westerman

... contemptuously consigned to the waste-basket as unworthy of answer. Long were the talks Constance and Marjorie had on the sore subject of Mary's unreasonable stand, and many were the plans proposed by which they might soften her stony little heart, but none of them were carried out. They were voiced, only to be laid ...
— Marjorie Dean - High School Sophomore • Pauline Lester

... French brandy and French beads. The Iroquois were no longer to pursue a timid foe across the great prairies of the valley of the Messasebe. The Ojibways were not to ambush the scattered parties of the Iroquois. The unambitious colonists of New England and New York were to be left to till their stony farms in quiet. Meantime, the fur trade, wasteful, licentious, unprofitable, was to extend onward and outward in all the marches of the West. From one end of the Great River of the West to the other the insignia of France and of France's king ...
— The Mississippi Bubble • Emerson Hough

... bottom is found sandstone, then alum-stone, then limestone, and above this red-stone, higher still slate, and lastly, trap." And, now that he has seen this, he descends again, and goes on board. He has seen Kinnakulla:—yes, the stony rock here, amidst the swelling verdure, showed him one heavy, thick stone finger, and most of the travellers think that they are like the devil, if they lay hold upon one finger, they have the body—but it is not always so. The least visited side of Kinnakulla is just the most characteristic, ...
— Pictures of Sweden • Hans Christian Andersen

... did I o'erperch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do that dares love attempt; Therefore thy kinsmen ...
— Molly Brown's Orchard Home • Nell Speed


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