Noun : paving stone; building stone. From Dictionary.com.
Adverb : stone cold. From Dictionary.com.
His dagger could not damage the stonelike hardness of the material. From Wordnik.com. [Split Infinity]
Hellboy smiled and touched her shoulder gently with his big stonelike hand. From Wordnik.com. [Unnatural Selection] Reference
The walls were not stone, but fruitcake with large stonelike sections of fruit. From Wordnik.com. [The Color of Her Panties]
In an instant, his normally relaxed face turned stonelike, and his eyes narrowed slightly. From Wordnik.com. [Fat Chance] Reference
Dozens of colors and stonelike patterns; near-invisible seams blend with integral sinks and edge. From Wordnik.com. [How To Buy & Sell just about Everything] Reference
How is it that a bone in its stonelike hardness is essentially the same as the exquisitely sensitive eye?. From Wordnik.com. [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference
And the vacancy had saved him, years of interior silence had made a quietness that was solid now, stonelike. From Wordnik.com. [Across The Sea Of Suns]
The station bustles around them as the Gabriels sit stonelike on their bench outside of Captain Pomeroy's of? ce. From Wordnik.com. ['City of the Sun'] Reference
How is it that a bone in its stonelike hardness is essentially the same as the infinitely tender tissues of the eye?. From Wordnik.com. [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference
Then be turned and set off at a brisk jog in the direction of the shuttleport, Pip dozing stonelike on one shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Tar Aiym Krang]
I don't know, but Mrs. W's floor is hard-stone, I think, or at least a stonelike substance-and we have no knee pads with us today. From Wordnik.com. [Nickel and Dimed]
It was only when its triple row of mouths smiled that Will realized it was not stone after all, just a creature of hard gray stonelike skin. From Wordnik.com. [Clockwork Angel] Reference
The reefs turned snow white, the color of the underlying stonelike structures they had built up over centuries, in a phenomenon known as coral bleaching. From Wordnik.com. [Global warming takes a toll on coral reefs] Reference
Soon the crowd began attacking the visitors by throwing shoes and turbas, the small stonelike objects to which worshippers touch their foreheads while praying. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Away With Murder?] Reference
They seemed to be of stone or a stonelike synthetic, rectangular in plan, peak-roofed, fronted or surrounded by porticos, their colors subdued when not plain white. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Of Empire]
Underfoot were smooth, alternating slabs of blue, green, and pure white stone, the white shining like glazed tile, while the blue and green remained convincingly stonelike. From Wordnik.com. [The End of The Matter]
Still the rivulet was purling as it flowed, and the fire crackling; while bathed in the red glow of the flames there was sitting, bent forward, the dark, stonelike figure of the. From Wordnik.com. [Through Russia] Reference
Presently the Demon Lord gained an unobstructed view of the spore, a stonelike sphere nested in a depression in the floor, black and dull, and protected by a shell of insurmountable hardness. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
They were running in a half-trot, the tree branches and vines slapping against their faces and steel pots, their expressions stonelike and heedless of the other Claymores that must have been set on the trail. From Wordnik.com. [Neon Rain] Reference
Mary bent her head on her hands in strange, stonelike rigidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Rainbow Trail] Reference
Claire René would watch the flamelight spread over the stonelike face. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
Not the movement of a finger broke the stonelike immobility of his attitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunted Woman] Reference
The owners of the huts, their peaceful brethren, were impassive with the stonelike impassivity of. From Wordnik.com. [The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution] Reference
The blade entered the soil for a matter of seven inches, when it struck upon something stonelike. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Continent] Reference
She wished she might greet her squatter friends as of yore, but her heart was sad and lay stonelike in her breast. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of the Storm Country] Reference
His face, in this cold light before the moon came up, was almost like the face of some marble statue, lifeless, set, of almost stonelike severity. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo] Reference
Finely ground shale mixed with lime and water was poured into stone-shaped molds, and then heated to create a stonelike wafer that could be applied much like contemporary faux interior "bricks.". From Wordnik.com. [Baltiblogs] Reference
The wet bridal robes were drenched and dripping about her, the long dark hair hung in saturated masses over her neck and arms, and contrasted vividly with a face, Ormiston thought at once, the whitest, most beautiful, and most stonelike he had ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Midnight Queen] Reference
(consisting of animal and mineral matter), and others are entirely hard and stonelike. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
There was no sense or sign of the violet-red stonelike creatures" but there hadn't been any sign of the soarer until the moment she had appeared. From Wordnik.com. [Alector's Choice]
"First, he's a huge globe in form, perhaps a hundred meters in diameter, with a stonelike shell of sufficient thickness and strength to support that tremendous weight on a planet of approximately Earth-gravity. From Wordnik.com. [Misinformation]
They just sat there, stonelike. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: June 9, 2002 - June 15, 2002 Archives] Reference
Pip dozing stonelike on one shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [The Tar-Aiym Krang]
It was a dead, stonelike gray. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunted Woman] Reference
Cietu’s expression was stonelike. From Wordnik.com. [In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Lady Blackheart] Reference
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