Sentence examples for shell of a stone from inspiring English sources
In 1952, for $8,000, they bought the shell of a stone home there that years earlier almost burned to the ground.
For example, the pigmented core and the yellow shell of a stone would have been sampled if present.
On their first official shopping trip, in November 2004, they visited Casperia, a hilltop hamlet 40 miles north of Rome, and fell in love with the shell of a place — crumbling stone walls, antiquated beams and all.
It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone". And for Ruskin, a scene captured in writing -- or "word-painting," as he put it -- was no less held in the memory.
Antonio could pull every drop of symbolism from a Romanesque church facade, unfurl the centuries of history belonging to one of Matera's rupestrian churches and then show us pieces of shells in a stone wall to identify it as limestone rather than volcanic tuff.
Until recently, the fire-gutted, stone-and-brick shell of a huge high school down the street from the center dominated the landscape, looking more like a ruined medieval monastery than a modern-day American urban academy.
A shell of a man, really".
"It was a shell of a cabin.
Only a few of hundreds of rooms have been restored; the rest of the monastery is hollowed shells of stone, jagged pillars and clumps of dirt.
To pry an abalone off its rock, it hammers the abalone shell using a large stone, with observed rates of 45 blows in 15 seconds.
