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    stony


    1. in literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1972


    2. He sighed and squeezed himself down in stony silence


    3. Our pace quickened for the final thrust and so we raced, slipping and sliding through scattered sun-bleached tree bark, fragments of branches and odd pieces of driftwood that littered the stony ground until we were close enough to resist it no longer


    4. 20But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that hears the word, and


    5. One stony corner was


    6. He tries to give Ken a withering look, but it falls on stony ground


    7. Jesus told the parable of the farmer that sowed seeds on the ground, some on stony ground, some on hard ground, and some among the weeds


    8. But the dart guns came up as soon as she raised her voice and she lapsed into stony silence for an hour


    9. To the east of the cross-roads lay a track barely visible that wound over hummock and stony outcrop, twisting and turning though stunted bush and nodding button grass for many kilomiles until finally reaching the mighty outcrop called 'Rocky Mount'


    10. Penelope could scarcely believe as she watched the ever-irritable Breton man finally sink to the harsh and stony cave ground, quivering and gasping

    11. Even leaving the stony confines of the Keep and seeking out fresh morning air could not alleviate the festering frustration


    12. And he easily could have spent the rest of the day sitting there along the stony ledge


    13. Kate kissed Robert’s stony face, closed her tear-filled eyes for a moment, and then stood up and grasped his ankles


    14. ” His voice was stony as he leaned against a tree, crossed his arms and stared down at me


    15. In the next few days we walked across stony ground, sands and wadis


    16. Kevin grinned insincerely at Agent Thomas, but when Agent Thomas’ stony expression remained unchanged, he quickly turned to the nearest filing cabinet and carefully placed the box files on top of it


    17. A little of Frank's stony rationality returned


    18. the comment was met with a stony silence and so he broke it


    19. ’ He briefly fixed a stony expression


    20. The autumn leaves spiralled to the ground, littering the stony lane as Seraphia trod through the forest path

    21. He gave her a sidelong look with the faintest hint of amusement seeping through his stony façade


    22. His stony gaze remained fixed on Hollowcrest, who frowned as he watched Sicarius


    23. Hurrying along the trail, he followed the tracks as far as he could until they eventually petered out on the stony ground


    24. "I followed his trail for as far as I could, but lost it when the ground got too stony


    25. After killing the lone sentry guarding the pathway, Brokin returned to his group of fighters and together they moved up the stony track leading to the air vent at the rear of the sett


    26. By studying the sides of what was a huge stony bowl, they decided that it had to be a couple of thousand metres up there


    27. Langdon was listening to me talk with a stony indifferent thousand-yard stare that old cops and good poker players develop


    28. As she stared into the blackness she recognized the stony path leading from the Castle


    29. Walking with a limp, he followed Ingrid back to their van the way they came, along a stony uneven track


    30. He opened the door, saluted the men standing outside and walked away without a word, his face a stony mask

    31. They stand in stony silence, with stony faces, staring at the young man who did not betray them, but never truly felt that he belonged to them


    32. 6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet


    33. 19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart


    34. give you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of


    35. Nina's face was stony and emotionless, like she was doing her best to suppress the urge to cry


    36. 16 Every man from his youth is given to evil; neither could they make to themselves fleshy hearts for stony


    37. It was melting my stony veneer


    38. My stony heart melted into water


    39. Nevertheless, when the children sang, her eyes turned green and her face, stony


    40. Only a stony silence filled the house

    41. But I quickly discovered that the IC made a stop at 53rd street and Stony Island, walkable distance, and at closing time, it took me to 71st & Jeffrey quite well, thank you


    42. Or if I were really being stupid, I would walk to the bus station at 63rd and South Stony Island and ride to corner of 71st and Jeffrey


    43. I dropped everything and ran for my life catching the bus at 63rd and Stony Island as it was leaving


    44. Turning into a quiet country lane, the taxi driver slows down, driving with caution through the stony road


    45. A few council members shifted uneasily in their seats while others stared at Arakiel in stony silence


    46. I was chosen to present our petition when your stony friend informed us that only one of us could do so


    47. The stony ridge, that had offered some protection, lay shorn of all its sand and rocky fragments


    48. The stony ridge, that had offered some


    49. 13:3-9 Note a sower went out to sow; and when he sowed some seeds fell by the way side and the birds came and ate them; some fell upon stony places where they had not much soil and straight away they sprung up because they had no depth in the soil; and when the sun was up they were scorched and because they had no root they withered away; and some fell among thorns and the thorns sprung up and choked them but other fell into good ground and produced fruit some an hundred times some sixty times some thirty times; Whoever has ears to hear let him listen


    50. 13:11-32 Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven but to them it is not given because whoever has to him it shall be given back and he shall have greater abundance; but whoever has nothing from him it shall be taken away even that which he holds; therefore I speak to them in parables because they while looking see nothing and while hearing they do not listen neither do they understand; and through them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah who says: By hearing you shall hear and shall not understand and by seeing you all shall see and shall not perceive because this people’s heart is stiffened hard and their ears are deadened in hearing and their eyes they have closed in case at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and should understand with their heart and should be converted and I should heal them; but blessed are your eyes because they see and your ears because they hear; because truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see and have not seen them and to hear those things which you hear and have not heard them; therefore hear the parable of the sower: When any one hears the word of the Kingdom and does not understand it then the Wicked One comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart; This is he who received the seed by the way side; but he who received the seed in stony places he is the same who hears the word and oblivious with joy receives it; still he has no root in himself but endures for a while because when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word eventually he is offended












































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    Synonyms for "stony"

    granitelike granitic rocklike stony flint flinty obdurate bouldered bouldery rocky adamant stiff unbending unfeeling inflexible hard motionless stock-still

    "stony" definitions

    abounding in rocks or stones


    showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings


    hard as granite