Sentence examples for ordinary stone from inspiring English sources

Owen was amazed to see how its symmetrical flakes distinguished it from an ordinary stone.

In the words of a famous Arabic poem, he was an ordinary man in the same way as a ruby is an ordinary stone.

(1) Opus quadratum that is, ordinary stone walling was used as a facing especially for important public buildings under the earlier empire (for example, the exterior of the Colosseum).

Sadly, I have only an ordinary stone mortar at my disposal, but obediently I grind together a teaspoon each of chopped chilli, spring onion and coriander to make a paste, and then gently mash in the cubes of avocado, being sure to leave some chunks intact.

It's hard going but soon you will reach what look like a few pieces of a stone row. 5. Look north and south and you will realise that this is no ordinary stone row; in fact it's the longest one in the UK.

Tolkien's anti-materialistic worldview, in which he extolled the wonders of growing things and of the ordinary – "stone, and wood, and iron; tree and grass; house and fire; bread and wine", as he put it in his 1947 essay On Fairy-Stories – also dovetailed with the countercultural values.

Ordinary stones and blasted stumps had to be considered as potential sculpture — as Noguchi did when he went rock hunting in the Yucca Valley.

Ordinary stones and blasted stumps had to be considered as potential sculpture as Noguchi did when he went rock hunting in the Yucca Valley.

The ranger tours come free with a parks pass, which is required for entry, and are an excellent way to not only put into context what might otherwise look like an ordinary rock shelter or stone tool but provide a window into the lives and culture of the local Bininj/Mungguy traditional owners who, in their words, have called these lands home since the time of creation.

And Austin Thomas photographs or paints pictures of ordinary-looking stones and adds odd, typewritten diaristic stories about them.

The finest mosaics of antiquity were made of tesserae cut from glass threads or splinters of stone; ordinary floor decorations consisted of cubes about one centimetre square.