Sentence examples for mountain of stone from inspiring English sources

The only feminine presence was Madame Alice, the patronne, an impassive mountain of stone, surmounted by a tightly pulled and smoothly sculpted mound of cold stone-gray hair.

On the Kerman plain stands the Jabel-e Sang (Mountain of Stone), a tomb built probably in the 11th or 12th century, and to the west is the Bagh-e Sirif, a luxuriant garden.

The Great Pyramid, a 146-metre-high mountain of stone, was created by arranging 2.3 million limestone blocks, each about 2.5 tonnes, with astonishing accuracy.

The buildings are mostly blue with a huge mountain of stone crowned with a large fortress called Mehrangarh Fort towering over the skyline.

The sky is considered to be a mountain, sometimes of stone, and is the residence of the sky gods.

Maybe the air is thin, or the exhaust fumes go to your head, but you get up there and begin seeing the city in epic clichés: it is a canyon of skyscrapers, a galaxy of streetlights, a river of traffic, a mountain range of stone and steel.

But no matter how hard he tried, there was one huge mountain made of stone that stood immovable and unaffected by his rain.

No brassy plaque, no monument, no tomb, no whittled initials on a makeshift cross, no pile of stones upon a mountain top.

For instance, it is argued, a pile of stones might signal a mountain summit, and physical patterns of ink (words) on a page can be about (many) things.

The road bobbed through a Martian landscape, red valleys raked with lines, flat expanses of gravel and dead shrubs, all ringed by hulking mountains of stratified stone.

But in north Wales the historic slate industry has left behind whole mountains of waste stone that no-one wants.