What is "stony"

Usage examples of "stony".

With her first coherent thought, finding herself blanketed by tons of stony carbon, Maia realized that there were indeed worse things than acrophobia or seasickness.

I had inside me an analog to that forbidding shape, something equally stony and vast.

Cheered by this nearer presence of human life, our young gentleman presently gathered his benumbed powers together, arose, and after a while began slowly and feebly to climb a stony hill that lay between the rocky beach and that faint but encouraging illumination.

Monsieur le Vicomte Bouvier de Brie--a Marshal of Bulls whom he controlled in the stony pastures near the cottage.

Then I return to my lost world--to the whistling, dry-leaved, thin oaks that are not these giant ones--to the stony little hillsides and treacherous river-pits that are not these secure pastures--to the sharp scents that are not these scents--to the companionship of poor Pluton and Dis--to the Street of the Fountain up which marches to meet me, as when I was a rude little puppy, my friend, my protector, my earliest adoration, Monsieur le Vicomte Bouvier de Brie.

Clay would turn stony, refusing to explain himself or listen to Bret at all.

The path, made some years ago when the expressway was engineered, was too stony and overgrown for the cars that would carry away the hijackers and their spoils: these were parked on a loop of country road far below.

Golden Soak was at the foot of these two, in rough hillocked country with the stony beds of dry watercourses and nothing much growing there but mallee and spinifex.

They were obliged at times to hold on to the whiplike trunks of immature Marre pines huddled in patches on the stony slope.

Anna Weinstein, professor of microbiology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Ike disappeared into his new castle with proud tears standing in his eyes, Milt Warden watched in stony silence.

The sergeant grounded the jeep in a stony pocket far enough below the crest to be clear of the Molt marksman who had fired as they climbed the back slope.

But as I turned, the sunlight against the concrete walls of the overpass formed a cube of intense light, almost as if the stony surface had become incandescent.

I could see the moist air when he exhaled, and this made me want to palpate my own stony lungs.

The sides of it were so steep and stony, and so thickly grown with gorse, that she had to dismount and, leaving Periwinkle beneath the pine trees, climb down by herself.