Sentence examples for as stone in from inspiring English sources

A previous search turned up nails, which will be useful in debates about Roman Britain's use of wood as well as stone in buildings, and a delicate dolphin-shaped piece of bronze which is thought to have been part of a tap.

The aim was to give an overall effect that resembled such natural objects as stones, in being largely uncontrived.

Like other prosopagnosics, Sieghart finds most human faces to be about as distinguishable as stones in a driveway.

After years of suggesting that the priest sexual abuse scandal was the fault of a few unstable clergymen, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops sat still as stones in a hotel ballroom today as the blame was laid squarely at their own feet.

Trachyte was used not only as stone blocks in the core.

Therefore, we evaluated stent insertion, peri-interventional complications, as well as stone clearance in patients with midsize kidney stones treated with extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (3,500 shock waves) in a prospective randomized trial.

Limestone exposed in the Great Ouse valley northwest of the town of Bedford was formerly used as building stone in the small riverside villages.

"No," I said finally, shaking my head in slow emphasis, the word itself, the denial, heavy as a stone in my mouth.

He would return home and write or read until he fell into his bed — "dumb as any stone," in his words.

The name is derived from Swedish and translates as "heavy stone", in recognition of one of this metal's more obvious qualities.

Decay of trachyte used as building stone in urban environment was investigated through the analysis of crusts and patinas found on trachyte of the Euganean Hills in the Renaissance city walls of Padua, northeastern Italy.