Sentence examples for must be stone from inspiring English sources

Her new novel is called "The Stone Virgins" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $18), prompting us to speculate whether experience has transmogrified her virgins into stone or whether they must be stone to endure their fates — validating Yeats's sentiment that "Too long a sacrifice / Can make a stone of the heart".

The side of the pool must be stone, cobblestone or planks because if it is only dirt or sand it looks like a pond or a lake.

"Looking at this through Muslim goggles, for the F.P.I. and all Muslims, adulterers must be stoned to death," Mr. Qohar said.

Utopian also must be stoning to death "a man or a woman who does evil in the eyes of the Lord," or cutting off the offending hand of a woman who, in trying "to rescue her man from the hand of the one striking him," inadvertently seizes his genitals.

Criminal prosecution for adultery, and the handing down of a stoning verdict, does not even require a personal plaintiff; if it can be proven that a man or woman has committed adultery, even if the betrayed spouse offers his or her forgiveness, the transgressor must be stoned.

They must be replaced stone by stone, by man not machine.

This must be the stones, the sudden movement, the sound of frogs singing in the new year.

If this were true, Marsilius argued, the idea of producing a stone must be identical with either the stone itself, or the stone insofar as it is known by God.

There must be a proper stone-to-stone contact between the coarse aggregates of SMA, and hence aggregate gradation is an important factor in this mixture.

He did, however, hint that another presidential bid was not off the table by mocking the notion that his next role must be a stepping stone to a second shot at the White House.

(All official transcriptions of the first line of the chorus of Who Said I Would give, "But she's got a heart must be made of stone". But he definitely says "fucking" at 1.07).