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Meanings of stony ground in inglês

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Usage of stony ground in inglês
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The cavalry marched over harder and more stony ground than the infantry.
How Jerusalem Was Won / Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign i...
2
Both fell to the stony ground right in front of the courthouse.
Lonesome dove
3
They headed straight for it, past cypress trees and over stony ground.
Nothing to lose
4
He stood up, and his inseparable sword clanked on the stony ground.
The Stowaway Girl
5
This, like other appeals of the same nature, fell on stony ground.
The Sowers
6
Some seed fell on stony ground where there was no good soil.
The Gospel of Mark for Readers
7
Her spirit felt as bruised as a fledgeling fallen upon stony ground.
The Ward of King Canute: A Romance of the Danish Conquest
8
Kneeling, the man pressed a gauntleted hand to the bare stony ground.
Stonewielder
9
Their horses' hoofs rang with a hard sound on the stony ground.
The Garden of Allah
10
A long fall to stony ground and hot smoke already around me.
The buried giant
11
But my first attempts to ask her out had fallen on stony ground.
Under orders
12
Some ardent believers went so far as to kneel on the stony ground.
South Wind
13
And these are likewise those who are sown on stony ground.
The Gospel of Mark for Readers
14
Bright golden coins spilled onto the stony ground, bouncing and clinking.
Wheel of Time [08]: The Path of Daggers
15
We reached a level, the open, stony ground, then the pool.
The Young Forester
16
A titanic entity of bone slowly straightened from the stony ground.
Assail
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Stony ground through the time
Stony ground across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common