Large upright standing stone.
A tall upright megalith; found primarily in England and northern France.
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Examples for "standing stone"
Examples for "standing stone"
1It is a standing stone, six feet tall, two wide, two deep.
2Their last meal had been lunch beside the standing stone the day before.
3Nicodemus saw that the formerly massive standing stone had crumbled.
4Then Ben was no longer there, and there was not one standing stone, but many.
5The Crow flew to a standing stone and went on speaking plain words to him.
1She feared the menhir no longer: its power over her was gone.
2Because of his strength, he can lift menhir stones or prehistoric monoliths.
3The menhir du Champ Dolent sinks an inch every hundred years.
4I had thought that this menhir had fallen when this came to pass.
5The distant smudge became a mound, and the mound a menhir.
6It waited, facing the menhir while the dust-devils criss-crossed the plain.
7When it cleared, Jhedel lay motionless, sprawled at the menhir's base.
8His escort, Stall and Evessa, straightened from where they leaned among the menhir-sized boulders.
9I do not know that there is a menhir, Thane.
10The great broken menhir of Locmariaker, with Cæsar's table.
11Dust drifted from the chiselled sides of the menhir.
12The menhir was full thrice a man's height.
13Dust flew like a scarf from the menhir.
14And I saw that in a flash, even as he reeled back from the menhir and staggered.
15The menhir was covered with dwarfish runes.
16Indeed, the exhibition's opener is no swirly brooch but a two-metre tall double-faced horned statue-menhir from southern Germany.