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  • If you try and clamp down on all aspects of life, there will be outrage, but I would not put it past this administration with such stone-headed characters like Harman, Smith and Straw who appear to know all the laws but not the concept of the Rule of Law to being to impose aspects of it - to "boil the frog" as it were.

    All This Talk of the Civil Contingencies Act Dan Vevers 2009

  • I never thought I'd pine for the desperate onanistic thread-jacking attempts of titus, but it's certainly better than the massively less entertaining droppings of our resident stone-hearted, stone-headed drama queen.

    "Well, there's something known as American conservatism, though it does not even call itself that." Ann Althouse 2008

  • The tools were mostly useless, rusted and rotten, except for one stone-headed hammer.

    City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007

  • The tools were mostly useless, rusted and rotten, except for one stone-headed hammer.

    City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007

  • Their arms consisted in short barbed swords of iron, heavy black bows, arrows tipped with flint, iron and copper, and stone-headed mallets.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • He was as trusting as a stone-headed giant, though.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • Indians — in their savage finery of curiously embroidered deerskin robes, wampum-belts, red and yellow ochre, and feathers, and armed with the bow and arrow and stone-headed spear — stood apart with countenances of inflexible gravity, beyond what even the

    The Scarlet Letter 2002

  • They did not even waste arrows upon them but swung in close to chop them to tatters with the spinning wheel-knives, or to lean out of the cockpit with the lance and cut them down, or to smash in their skulls with the stone-headed maces.

    River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

  • They held him there as one of the regimental armourers climbed the ladder beside him with a stone-headed mallet in his fist.

    River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

  • The warriors carried spears and stone-headed axes, the wizard a leather sack.

    Conan the Relentless Green, Roland 1992

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