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