Sentence examples for twenty stone from inspiring English sources
In a verse epistle to Lady Covell he gives his weight as "twenty stone within two pound", and hopes she will round this up by adding some pounds to his purse.
My desire to experience the realm of toxic substances was coming down on me like a twenty stone lad falling off a chewed up bodyboard.
More than twenty stone ossuaries for collecting human bones were found, along with textiles from a burial shroud, hair and skeletal remains.
More than twenty stone ossuaries for the collection of human bone were found, a few bearing inscriptions in Jewish and Greek script ("Mary Shimonmon ben [son of] Shulai"; "Salome"; "Phineas").
Somewhat reluctantly, Bracken seems to lay the blame more at the door of the husband, who was very fat indeed: 'I only remember two in which it failed, which, perhaps, might be a Fault in the Husband; for one of them was exceeding corpulent, weighing at least twenty Stone, and she none of the leanest of Women'.
"Nine, eight, seven," Dr. Stone counted down.
Two birds, one stone, right?
I lost three stone in three weeks".
"Two birds with one stone," he says.
