Sentence examples for load of stone from inspiring English sources

Between twelve noon and five l'clock the farmers and their families stand, packed and motionless, to cheer horses and oxen drawing a load of stone a foot or two across a square of loose red dirt.

It's just a load of stones between a fork in the road.

In the church's anniversary publication, Mrs. Postemski recalled the day her family delivered a final load of stones to the church.

One day his boss, Amon Goeth, glanced out the window and saw that a worker did not have a full load of stones in his wheelbarrow.

And then watching a load of stones rain down on a small [police] van and then watching it drive away was just something totally unreal to me at first.

He was horrified to discover that the entrance was blocked by a large load of stones and bricks recently dumped for a construction project.

His job was to remove anything that might be used as a weapon, and he duly had "about a quarter of a load" of stones carted away.

I love my church, it's very old, with a really high ceiling, loads of stone and absolutely freezing inside.

Tibetans who had collaborated in the Chinese takeover and who later fell victim to China's deadly political battles entered the work camps exuding ideological solidarity and eager-beaver enthusiasm, rushing from place to place with their heavy loads of stone.

When antiquary John Leland visited the castle some time between 1535 and 1543, he noted that: While in the care of The Crown, Warwick Castle underwent repairs and renovations using about 500 loads of stone.

When the frost ultimately retreats, in a warm rain or under a hot sun come spring, it will retreat with a load of subterranean stone in its grasp, creating a kind of thin, horizontal moraine across the pasture, and yet it will leave the beetle grubs where they lie.