Sentence examples for chunks of stones from inspiring English sources

After the Israelis pulled out, Mr. Arafat emerged defiant, nearly carried by bodyguards over a wrecked car, bulldozed dirt and chunks of stones at the entrance to his once-impressive headquarters, a police station built by the British after World War I, now a wreck.

Running through the plantings along the eastern perimeter, for about 760 feet, are heavy wire cages, 18 inches wide, filled with broken chunks of stone.

We passed farmers with wooden plows drawn by oxen, turning up soil and chunks of stone so crystalline they gave light back to the sun.

Taxi drivers protesting measures to open their sector to competition hacked chunks of stone from sidewalks and hurled them at riot officers.

Island Lake stretched out next to us, fed by trickling streams that we had to hop over or cross on chunks of stone.

Television images showed that one elaborate steeple had fallen over and large chunks of stone work had crumbled away on the other.

Work crews on the dome have reported feeling vibrations from the firing of guns at Fort Lewis, and state officials fear that chunks of stone could be shaken loose.

Diego Della Valle, chairman of Tod's, the shoe and leather empire, offered last year to donate €25 million to restore the Colosseum in Rome, where chunks of stone have been tumbling from the amphitheater and its arches.

The rallies were mostly peaceful until the early afternoon, when self-styled anarchists broke off from the crowd and attacked the police with firebombs and chunks of stone torn up from sidewalks.

Dr. Cogan and others labor over the chunks of stone like detectives at a crime scene, using the old maps in Mr. Powell's book to recreate the original placement of the tombstones.

It was made by Antonio and his men from great boulders and chunks of stone and took me 45 minutes to negotiate the three miles in my faithful VW.