stoon

This one of the things that pisses me off about the media, they will run a non-important stoon constant loop.

Palin: 'I will forever question' Rev. Wright strategy 2009

Once more in his tower, whither he returned without speaking to any one, "domb," he says, "as any stoon," the everyday world was done with; his neighbours were to him as though they had lived at the ends of earth [485]; his real neighbours were Dante and Virgil.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

A disciple of Plato is supposed to ask his master to tell him the "namè of the privee stoon."

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir

"Domb as any stoon, Thou sittest at another boke, Til fully daswed is thy loke."

Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911

That was fulled in a fount stoon and felow of owres.

Vanishing England 1892

"Fulled in a fount stoon," of course, means "washed or baptized in a stone font."

Vanishing England 1892

And he took me up in spirit into a greet hill and high, and he schewide to me the hooli cite ierusalem comynge doun fro heuene of god, hauynge the cleerte [glory] of god; and the light of it lyk a precious stoon as the stoon iaspis [jasper], as cristal.

The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Emily Sarah Holt 1864

I 'the mids o' a quaiet contemplation, suddenly, wi 'an awfu' stoon, a ghaistly doobt pat it's heid up i 'my breist, and cried:' It's a 'fause.

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

And syne whan the pain cam 'back wi' a terrible stoon, I jist amaist leuch; an I thoucht that gin he wad brack me a 'to bits, I wad never cry _haud_, nor turn my finger to gar him stent.

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

And the bilding of the wall thereoff was of the stoon iaspis and the citee it silff was cleen gold lyk cleen glas.

The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Emily Sarah Holt 1864