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  • It sat in the middle of several interior structures: a stuccoed field-stone chapel with a yard of well-tended short grass, a central hall of polished sandstone the color of lime, three wings of cloisters connected by shade-giving arbors, several out-buildings for the livestock, a small flower garden, a smithy, and the wishing pool, where it was nice to sit after a hard day's work.

    G'lder Curtis Hox 2011

  • The lichen seems to be loving this cold, wet weather, and in places, where it carpeted the field-stone walls and tree trunks, it almost seemed to glow an unearthly shade of greenish white.

    "I’m made of bones of the branches, the boughs, and the browbeating light..." greygirlbeast 2009

  • I could tell, from the field-stone foundation, that it was very old, but I'd not thought it quite that old.

    Notes from my Bubble (2) greygirlbeast 2009

  • Across a broad stretch of lawn flanked by field-stone terraces and brilliant gardens.

    Wild Dreams of Reality, 5 2010

  • Kellen admired the decoration around the edge: river stones and field-stone and tiles, all arranged in a harmonious whole, just the way everything else he'd seen here was.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • The field-stone wall had never looked more naked and fake.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • The field-stone wall had never looked more naked and fake.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • The field-stone wall had never looked more naked and fake.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Each restaurant boasts a 26-foot floor-to-ceiling field-stone fireplace, decorated with a stuffed moose, a bison and a fox.

    Building A Perfect Pizzeria 2007

  • He reread the piece of paper, still curled and slightly damp from the teletype printer, then balled it up and threw it onto the pile of still flickering embers in the yawning field-stone fireplace.

    The Dick Cheney Code Henry Beard 2004

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