The noon sun bit the naked stones; and everything, hiding and shrinking from that glowing sun-fire, seemed dead.

Dreary mountains, and declivities of naked stones, were round about: they are burrowed with holes in which Christian hermits lived and died.

Haven't you noticed how, in some spots, the current seems to scour away all the mud and leave naked stones and pebbles?

The whole of it is not upon the same level; it consists of four platforms separated from each other by a wall of naked stones.

Further on, tall façades rise suddenly up, the blue sky gleaming through their windows, the green moss already growing upon their naked stones and bricks.