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The name of the village was Sennen, and near the church was a large stone 8 feet long and 3 feet wide, said to have been the table-stone at which seven Saxon kings once dined.
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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Copley was serious, however, in his intention of finding out if possible who was on the island; and when they had passed up the rough path to the round table-stone, Ruth had got over her little shivery feeling and was as eager as Chess himself.
Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands Alice B. Emerson
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A good example of this exists at Gaulstown, Waterford, where a table-stone weighing 6 tons rests on six uprights, three of which form the little portico just described.
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Once murdered for religion's sake, says the epitaph on the flat table-stone, beneath the wind tormented trees of Iron Gray.
Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Once murdered for religion's sake, says the epitaph on the flat table-stone, beneath the wind tormented trees of Iron Gray.
Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801
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Once murdered for religion’s sake, says the epitaph on the flat table-stone, beneath the wind tormented trees of Iron Gray.
Old Mortality 2004
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_Maen-hayr, _ for the standing stones of Brittany, and _Dol-men, _ °the table-stone, "for a cromlech.]
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