Under heavy loads, stone is superior to wood but not to iron, steel, or reinforced concrete.
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.
The results can be applied to a broad range of load bearing stone elements such as columns, beams and vaults.
It's just a load of stones between a fork in the road.
I love my church, it's very old, with a really high ceiling, loads of stone and absolutely freezing inside.
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.
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.
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.
