paving-stone

"I fear that I am as prosaic as a loaf of bread, and as psychically aware as a paving-stone."

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

You may have seen our old paving-stone path, as well as evidence of the dogs' love of romping in muck, here.

We've got stones Calamity Jen 2009

You may have seen our old paving-stone path, as well as evidence of the dogs' love of romping in muck, here.

Archive 2009-08-01 Calamity Jen 2009

Weeks earlier we had torn out the paving-stone path that I had very laboriously laid there three years ago.

Archive 2009-08-01 Calamity Jen 2009

Weeks earlier we had torn out the paving-stone path that I had very laboriously laid there three years ago.

We've got stones Calamity Jen 2009

The Thenardier woman snatched up an enormous paving-stone which lay in the angle of the window and served her daughters as an ottoman.

Les Miserables 2008

She had thrown off her shawl, but retained her bonnet; her husband, who was crouching behind her, was almost hidden under the discarded shawl, and she was shielding him with her body, as she elevated the paving-stone above her head with the gesture of a giantess on the point of hurling a rock.

Les Miserables 2008

Again he traversed the Place du Chatelet diagonally, regained the quay, and returned with automatic precision to the very point which he had abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and found himself again in the same attitude on the same paving-stone of the parapet.

Les Miserables 2008

Courfeyrac, seated on a paving-stone beside Enjolras, continued to insult the cannon, and each time that that gloomy cloud of projectiles which is called grape-shot passed overhead with its terrible sound he assailed it with a burst of irony.

Les Miserables 2008

So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the outlook behind their paving-stone dike and the sharpshooters of the banlieue massed at the corner of the street suddenly pointed out to each other something moving through the smoke.

Les Miserables 2008