Sentence examples for head of stone from inspiring English sources

In the jungles of Guatemala, archaeologists were able in 2010 to identify nearly a hundred structures at the lost Mayan city of Holtun (meaning "head of stone").

But only a head of stone could ignore an obvious question: What was she doing in that strange place to begin with?

We walk away from the quayside in St Peter Port, up a curling road of elegant whitewashed Georgian houses, to a green door at the head of stone steps.

Sometime Thing, a 4 year old filly, brought top price of $100,000, it was bought by Whitney Stone, who is a member of the Jockey Club and head of Stone & Webster a construction firm; he also paid $42,500 for Sea Change, Almond Eyes brought $40,000, much lower price than was predicted.

"To do a statue of baby Jesus for a church is like an honour of my entire art career," she said, explaining that she would aim to sculpt a permanent head out of stone by next year.

In the western city of Kisumu, police used tear gas and fired live rounds over the heads of stone-throwing youths heeding opposition leader Raila Odinga's call for a voter boycott.

It is no easy job for a novelist to imagine himself into the head of a Stone Age hunter-gatherer.

Without speaking again, he took his seat at the head of the stone table and gestured to Christopher to take the place on his right.

What appeared to be the head of a stone mace, a symbol of authority, was found in one grave, the archaeologists said, indicating that this was probably a cemetery for the ruling dynasty responsible for erecting Stonehenge.

LAST night Doug Ducey, Arizona's treasurer and a former head of Cold Stone Creamery, a chain of ice-cream parlours, emerged victorious in a six-way Republican primary with 37% of the vote to become the party's candidate for November's gubernatorial race.

Round the corner from The Turf, outside the Sheldonian Theatre, are 13 Roman heads made of stone, each on top of its own pillar.