Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Hard as a stone; unfeeling.
  • Firm; fast.

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Examples

  • Brys stopped and looked at her, his face stone-hard through the white mist of his breath.

    THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010

  • The demon had me up against the wall; I could feel stone behind my head and stone beneath my grasping fingers, and a stone-hard body pressing hard against me, bony knee between my own, stone and bone, between my own" legs, more stony hardness" ah.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Something caught him by the foot and he went crashing down onto the centuries-old, stone-hard earth.

    LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

  • This one "feels sluggish and tired; its relentless, not-so-great gags hit with the soft thud of stone-hard bread crumbs."

    GreenCine Daily: Shrek the Third. 2007

  • Something caught him by the foot and he went crashing down onto the centuries-old, stone-hard earth.

    LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

  • Something caught him by the foot and he went crashing down onto the centuries-old, stone-hard earth.

    LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

  • The light tracer ammunition whistled in the air from all sides with flashes of light bouncing off the stone-hard ground, catapulting into the air to buzz away aimlessly.

    Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

  • They're trying really hard, stone-hard to inculcate their values to their kids.

    In Austin, Texas, I pay my traditional visit to the 10 Commandment monument. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Before he'd realized what he was doing he'd had his hands around her throat, his fingers squeezing, and something inside him had gone stone-hard and icy cold.

    Wicked Pleasures Leigh, Lora 2008

  • He felt no sorrow or remorse, just the stone-hard hunger of a separate kind.

    Deeper Jeff Long 2007

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