Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
boulder , of which it is the older form.
Etymologies
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Examples
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So she led him into a courtyard where stood a great boulder-stone.
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And then she put her face down upon the boulder-stone and kissed it.
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The best defended camp was surrounded by bush abatis and flanked by half-moon _sungas_ of boulder-stone work, which held the sentries.
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His eye seizes the crisp indentations of ferns as they “fit their teeth to the polished block” of a grey boulder-stone; [74] seizes the “sharp-curled” olive-leaves as they
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So she led him into a courtyard where stood a great boulder-stone.
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So she led him into a courtyard where stood a great boulder-stone.
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That great boulder-stone at the north-eastern end of the magnificent avenue opposite is, most likely, a Roman landmark, though it is customary to declare that the Earn once flowed past it.
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Let me attempt in a few paragraphs to give some faint idea of the impression which this city, a boulder-stone left by the icedrift of the dissolving Empire amid the green fields of modern civilisation, produces on the mind of a traveller.
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The old grey boulder-stone that has finished its peregrination from the rock to the valley, is as easily to be set rolling up again as these men laughing.
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The old grey boulder-stone that has finished its peregrination from the rock to the valley, is as easily to be set rolling up again as these men laughing.
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