She was eliminated after spelling the word menhir wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference

The best known of these types are as follows: Firstly, the menhir, which is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders] Reference

Lying also prostrate on the ground, by the side of it, is a smaller menhir, which is, however, above 30 feet long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference

"Yes!" after getting a word correct, finished third after flubbing "menhir", a type of monolith.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home - BostonHerald.com] Reference

"Yes!" after getting a word correct, finished third after flubbing "menhir," a type of monolith.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taipei Times] Reference

Aishwarya Pastapur, 13, from Springfield, Ill., finished third after misspelling "menhir," a type of monolith.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"menhir," supposed to be the solitary survivor of a large group of these huge stones, stood near the village school some years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northumberland Yesterday and To-day] Reference

And the LJ spellcheck has never heard of "menhir.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Definition of a minority] Reference

I went to the menhir that had spoken to me earlier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Rose]

Holger retreated till he had the menhir behind him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Hearts and Three Lions]

Holger and Carahue returned to the menhir and gasped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Hearts and Three Lions]

I said, "The menhir says we might have more visitors.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Rose]

"I am charged with delivering a warning," the menhir said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Rose]

"Get on to the next phase!" he shouted at the scarred menhir.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Spike]

She feared the menhir no longer: its power over her was gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Loose End and Other Stories] Reference

As I arrived, one menhir told me to go to another of its kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Rose]

Ten miles from the Hole we breasted a hill and encountered a menhir.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Rose]

Raven stepped around a small menhir, climbed, made signs one-handed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Spike]

Not for anything was she going to tell him how the menhir affected her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rich Man's Royal Mistress]

For a menhir to repeat itself meant it considered its message critical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Rose]

Vaguely, I was aware that a menhir now stood near Silent's lurking place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Rose]

Directly opposite, to the east, a single menhir leaned like a weary drunk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silicon Mage]

The menhir is estimated to be one-third the height of Notre Dame at Paris.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference

As we passed it the menhir said, "There are strangers on the Plain, Croaker.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Rose]

He had located a previously unknown menhir and had identified the spells it anchored.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Rose]

The boss menhir wanted a couple of his flint-hearted buddies there to keep an ear on us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Spike]

A menhir yammered behind me, instructing me in the care and stroking of the windwhale ego.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Rose]

He became a menhir and for a thousand years he stood on that desolate stretch of coastline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moonheart]

The talking menhir that had forewarned us about the messenger remained rooted beside the path.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Rose]

It is the largest menhir known, but it has been broken into three pieces, some say by thunder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference

Which she had — the spring in the grassy glade where the menhir kept its ancient surveillance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rich Man's Royal Mistress]

The mare fidgeted and tossed her head, then took a couple of steps up the trail towards the menhir.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rich Man's Royal Mistress]

Outside each corner was a representation of a menhir which, on the Barrowland, was a twelve-foot pillar topped by a two-faced owl's head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Rose]

Two steps took me to the menhir, and I drew my seax that I might do as he asked me.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex] Reference

I have seen pool and menhir, and the cliffs that hem them, even as the princess saw them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex] Reference

Then it would send its rays across the pool full on the face of the menhir, as it seemed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex] Reference

Obelix and Co (1976) Jacques Chirac threatens the village with a surplus of menhir production.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference