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Set in stone   /sɛt ɪn stoʊn/   Listen
Set in stone

adjective
1.
No longer changeable.  Synonym: carved in stone.






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"Set in stone" Quotes from Famous Books



... Christ are the three windows invisible from outside, and over them again the huge dead rose window, looking like a blind eye, and lighting up, like the windows, only when seen from within, when they glow with clear flame and pale sapphires set in stone; then, higher yet, above the rose, is the gallery of French kings, under the great triangular gable between ...
— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans



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