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Stony   /stˈoʊni/   Listen
Stony

adjective
(compar. stonier; superl. stoniest)
1.
Abounding in rocks or stones.  Synonyms: bouldered, bouldery, rocky.  "Stony ground" , "Bouldery beaches"
2.
Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings.  Synonyms: flint, flinty, granitic, obdurate.  "The child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
3.
Hard as granite.  Synonyms: granitelike, granitic, rocklike.



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"Stony" Quotes from Famous Books



... weather tomorrow. Some people seem to look at nature through a glass of red wine or in a Claude Lorraine mirror; to them the landscape has ever the bloom of summer or a spring-tide grace. To others, it is always cloudy, dreary, dull. The desolate ravine, the stony path, the blighted heath—that is all they can find in a book which should have a chapter for everybody. And the latter are apt to call the former dreamers, visionaries, fools. They are dubbed in society often flatterers, people whose "geese are ...
— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

... all round the stable, and presently Joe called out, "Here they are, all three of them." I thought he had found the horses, but it was only their tracks he had discovered, which with much difficulty we followed over the stony ground, until, after half an hour of careful trailing, they led us to the dusty road some distance below camp, where they were ...
— The Boys of Crawford's Basin - The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado • Sidford F. Hamp

... in a deep recess in some dark and rocky canon whose sides were vertical walls. Tumbling down from the wooded heights above—rare sight in Arizona—a little brook of clear, sparkling water came brawling and plashing over its stony bed at his feet and went on down the gorge to its opening on the sandy plain. There, presumably, it burrowed into the bosom of the earth, for no vestige of running stream could the Cababi Valley show. The walls about ...
— Foes in Ambush • Charles King

... Enterprise headline the next day. She did not cry or faint or go into hysterics; but she forgot to put salt in the soup, and that is something Susan never did in my recollection. Mother and Miss Oliver and I cried but Susan looked at us in stony sarcasm and said, 'The Kaiser and his six sons are all alive and thriving. So the world is not left wholly desolate. Why cry, Mrs. Dr. dear?' Susan continued in this stony, hopeless condition for twenty-four ...
— Rilla of Ingleside • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... a regular shaking up; it'll make her hold her tongue and do her good," he said to himself, as a stony ...
— Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories • Louisa M. Alcott


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