Citations:stone

Noun: "hard earthen substance"

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * They showed him, moreover, the sling and stone with which David slew Goliath of Gath; and the sword, also, with which their Lord will kill the Man of Sin, in the day that he shall rise up to the prey.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass.
 * But even here, two men who watched the light had made a fire, that through the loophole in the thick stone wall shed out a ray of brightness on the awful sea.
 * Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went; and following the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, EBENEZER SCROOGE.

Adjective: "an intensifier"



 * 2002, Jocko Weyland, The Answer Is Never: A Skateboarder's History of the World, page 71:
 * Ellen Berryman is a stone fox and I wouldn't mind meeting her.
 * 2004, Lisa Scottoline, Everywhere That Mary Went, page 43:
 * Even the ugly headset doesn't mar her good looks. Lustrous red hair, a perfect nose, the sexiest pout in legal history. Brent is right. Delia is a stone fox.
 * 2008, Lorna Landvik, The View from Mount Joy, page 3:
 * Standing at the urinal, I read the first graffiti to mar the freshly scrubbed wall or the school bathroom: Viet Nam sucks and Kristi Casey is a stone fox.