Stepping spots

Usage examples of stones.

The chiefs held each other close for a heartbeat, then Kital pulled away and, leading Hengall by the hand, took him to where Sannas waited beside one of the great stones that formed the death house.

I dragged her back and forth across the stones of her story for an hour, and she never budged from it.

To Stones surprise, Eduardo embraced him, then turned and walked back to join Dolce in the receiving line.

If wanting to work with the Marshall Stones and the Bert Hanrattys of the world is snobbery, then I am a snob.

The low stones were rough-hewn, mere stumps of rock, and some folk reckoned they were ugly compared to a properly trimmed pole.

The temple might have failed to impress them, but the avenue of stones did not, for these stones were larger than the temple markers and they led far across the open country.

There were so many stones flanking the sacred track that they could not be counted, and all were as tall or even taller than a man.

stones and more stones, for the great space within the soaring chalk wall seemed filled with heavy, high, grey boulders, and some had been newly wetted so that glints of light shone from their rough surfaces.

One of those stones was a ringstone, a boulder with a great hole in it, and that pierced rock had been lifted up on another, while nearby was a death house made from three massive stone slabs.

He did not understand how any man could raise such stones and he knew he must have come to a place where the gods worked marvels.

Most of the visitors gaped at the girls, but Galeth gazed at the stones and felt an immense sadness.

The shadows of the lovers were motionless now, but the dying firelight flickered and it seemed to him that the ring of stones was shimmering in the smoky night.

It was as though the stones were alive and the people were dead, and that made him think of the Old Temple, so far away, that was his home, and he leaned forward and put his forehead on the ground and swore to whatever gods were listening that he would make the Old Temple live.

The price for the stones had been one of the large gold lozenges and nine of the small, which Hengall reckoned cheap.

It was Galeth, practical, strong and efficient, who would have to raise the stones, and he tried to imagine how the eight great boulders would look in that clean setting of grass and chalk.