Sentence examples for men of stone from inspiring English sources

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From the first "howl" of "Howl, howl, howl/Oh, you are men of stone" to the end of the play I was riveted, transported by the genius of Plummer.

Some critics called them the men of stone.

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The third, which is roughly autobiographical, quotes "King Lear" and expresses anguish directly: "Oh, / you are men of stones.... Water?

O! you are men of stones".

"Oh, you are men of stones!

You are men of stones!" Getting my food to go (I'm never too scared to eat, or, for that matter, make a Shakespeare reference) I was back on the road heading north.

Glover tells how the Bolshevik leaders cultivated a reputation for hardness, down to their assumed names: Kamenev (man of stone), Molotov (the hammer), Stalin (man of steel).

And in the moving "The Flying Man of Stone" by Dilman Dila, 15-year-old Kera, having witnessed the slaughter of his mother and siblings by soldiers, is given a flying machine and a super-weapon by his ailing father, with tragic consequences.

It is a country in which victims of gang rape have been sentenced to prison and 200 lashes; in which an acceptable punishment for women accused of adultery is to bury them in the ground to their head and then allow a circle of men to stone them to death; in which women aren't allowed to work, travel, drive or even leave the house without permission from their male "guardians".

Atlas was subsequently represented as the king of that district, turned into a rocky mountain by the hero Perseus, who, to punish Atlas for his inhospitality, showed him the Gorgon's head, the sight of which turned men to stone.

Sheriff's shirt, extra large, to take a man of 16 stone and more than six feet tall.

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