Sentence examples for stone ball from inspiring English sources

At 6ft 7in and 19 stone, Ball will provide an extra punch to a Welsh pack already boasting seven British & Irish Lions.

Penny constantly drew my attention to the way elements of a painting match or "rhyme" each other: a mandrill and stone ball, two counterpointed figures.

In Pillar and Moon, you notice the alignment between the stone ball finial on the top of the pillar, and the full moon in the sky: two globes, the same size, set almost at the same level in the picture.

Now seventy-two of those images have found their way onto the walls of the Rose Center, where they split into three categories: the voyage to the moon, the trip around the moon, and the big stone ball in the sky that caused all the fuss.

Articles found in the tomb of an Egyptian child buried in about 3200 bc included nine pieces of stone, to be set up as pins, at which a stone "ball" was rolled, the ball having first to roll through an archway made of three pieces of marble.

In these last two events, there are links with the past in the wooden shaft of the hammer (though the original hammer head is replaced by an iron ball) and in the round stone ball used for putting at many games.

Stone balls the size of cricket balls have been found near monuments in Scotland.

The ancient Greeks and Romans liked playing with stone balls; medieval Europeans preferred wooden ones studded with nails.

Carefully shaped round stone balls, believed to have been used as bola weights in hunting, constitute part of the Fauresmith assemblage.

Bola, also called Bolas, (Spanish: "balls"; from boleadoras), South American Indian weapon, primarily used for hunting, consisting of stone balls, usually in a group of three, attached to long, slender ropes.

Eleanor Billet, a new dealer in New York, has a pair of unpainted antique English stone chairs with carved griffin-head bases and a pair of foot-tall, moss-covered old stone balls from England that together weigh 600 pounds.