Stone

(noun.) building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose; 'he wanted a special stone to mark the site'.

(noun.) a lack of feeling or expression or movement; 'he must have a heart of stone'; 'her face was as hard as stone'.

(noun.) United States architect (1902-1978).

(noun.) United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946).

(noun.) United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989).

(noun.) United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893).

(noun.) United States filmmaker (born in 1946).

(noun.) United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946).

(noun.) the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed; 'you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking'.

(noun.) an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds; 'a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone'.

(verb.) kill by throwing stones at; 'People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock'.

(adj.) of any of various dull tannish or grey colors .

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• The day was cold and dark and wintry and the stone of the houses looked cold. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, thrown out on each side. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• It was a corrugated, unsightly mountain of stone. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• If you have got the value of the stone in your pocket, answered Mr. Franklin, say so, Betteredge, and in it goes! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• An inking roller, charged with an oily ink, is then passed over the stone and inks the drawing, but leaves all the other parts of the stone quite clean. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Well, then, he said, I yield; if not to your earnestness, to your perseverance: as stone is worn by continual dropping. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• A great stone that I happened to find, after a long search, by the sea-shore, served me for an anchor. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Yellow diamonds are more flashingly brilliant than white stones that cost much more. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• As they passed the different mile-stones, Oliver wondered, more and more, where his companion meant to take him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• He chose the trade of a lapidary, or polisher of precious stones, an art which in that age was held in almost as high esteem as that of the painter or sculptor. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• By dint of hard scrambling he finally straddled the top, but some loose stones crumbled away and fell with a crash into the court within. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• There, Mrs Clennam dropped upon the stones; and she never from that hour moved so much as a finger again, or had the power to speak one word. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• At one end he built a fireplace of small stones from the beach. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Do _you_ want to be trampled upon and stoned? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It tells how they was stoned and sawn asunder, and wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, and was destitute, afflicted, tormented. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Do you want me to be trampled upon and stoned? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The child belongeth to the parent; and the violator of wedlock shall be stoned. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They did it, and the people stoned the accused by the city wall, and he died. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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