How To Use Stone wall In A Sentence

In my own garden I have an old stone wall with remnants of whitewash that reflects the sunlight and heat in summer.
Rooms feature beamed ceilings, exposed stone walls and sunken baths. Times, Sunday Times
She leaned her bike against the stone wall and stood on tiptoe to peer over it.
An old stone wall marks the boundary of the plot to one side, while a rocky hill and concrete wall flanks the other.
Stone walls are left exposed or clad with broad wooden planks and painted white. Times, Sunday Times

The complex of field systems and large stone walls extend from the north western slopes of Mount Brandon to within the boundaries of Dingle.
This is a place to escape to, where you can sleep surrounded by whitewashed stone walls and lush gardens. Times, Sunday Times
The stone cages have a curiously sensual, primeval quality, like the ancient dry stone walls in fields.
We stayed there in an old farmhouse with thick stone walls and shutters, and silk worms in the attic. Times, Sunday Times
Hunger breaks stone wall.
Everything that lived or grew, was oppressed by the glare; except the lizard, passing swiftly over rough stone walls, and the cicala, chirping his dry hot chirp, like a rattle. Little Dorrit
He could see the grassy wilderness forming a high bank beyond the old bulging stone wall that held back the encroaching hillside.
The incident happened on September 1, when a driver careered off a road adjoining the lake, crashing through a drystone wall and ploughing into the water.
And already the site of the house is undiscoverable, the location of the stone walls may be deduced from the configuration of the landscape, and I am renewing the battle, putting in angora goats to browse away the brush that has overrun Haska's clearing and choked Haska's apple trees to death. Chapter 37
Ahead rose the manse, on the other side of a stone wall and some hedges. A TIME OF WAR
Some are separated by grass baulks, others by stone walls.
Thanks to the Grassington Festival I have learnt to build dry stone walls in limestone as he would have done.
When he topped the rise, he swerved to avoid the tree and collided with the stone wall behind.
But in the next 12 months alone, there is a need for almost 200 lime plasterers, around 140 wattle and daub craftspeople, over 100 glaziers and almost 60 cob builders and dry stone wallers.
They built a small garden shed beyond the vegetable garden and a low stone wall between the shed and the pergola.
She looked over to the greystone wall of the church, counting the windows along the northern transept. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
Just off the living room is a good sized kitchen, also with stone walls and terracotta tile floor.
From the stone walls and landscaped embankments to the sweep of the footbridges and the modern viaduct that carries the road over the river, this scheme was designed not just not to offend the eye but to please it.
The work carried out by the group is very evident in the beauty of the dry stone walls, the landscaping of the village and church surrounds and the cleanliness of the whole area.
Dry stone walls may appear stark and lifeless, but they provide a valuable habitat for plants and animals.
The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance
There are no cars in sight, so one could imagine feeling free to amble about, talk easily, smell the colourful flowers cascading over the whitewashed stone walls, and enjoy a glass of wine at an outdoor street café.
Beside this the oratory has a high beamed ceiling, an exposed stone wall and views over the garden to the front and side.
They approached a blank stone wall and the lad touched certain buttons upon the contraption he wore on his wrist.
We lay buried to the head in bracken that filled one side of the byre, and keeked through the plenteous holes in the dry-stone wall at the passing army. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
She wriggled off the windowsill and scrambled onto the stone wall, ignoring the twinges of pain in her damaged wrist.
Entering through the flagstone wall, the lobby's black terrazzo floor is inset with fragments of locally mined gems and copper ore.
Rooms have exposed stone walls and original beams, modern art, wicker sofas and designer lamps. Times, Sunday Times
Because the glacier moves a few inches a day, Gyalzen will build a temporary shelter with stone walls and use a tent for cover.
That is why stone walls are used instead of fences around New England fields.
The chamber beyond was long and narrow, with a seeled in a dark cherry, and the window casements were inset in the stone walls, also framed in cherry. Cadmian's Choice
The treatment rooms have an organic feel and simplicity of styling: drystone walling features in the health suite, mosaic tiling covers the flooring in the communal area and surrounds a sunken jacuzzi overlooking the mountains.
Well maintained buildings, gates, pillars, old stone walls and styles add to the visual appearance of the farm and help it blend into the landscape.
The scrubland has around a dozen olive trees surrounded by a low stone wall. The Sun
By the time I got to the drystone wall that divides the plot from the public footpath and the beck, the sobs had changed to screams of rage.
I assume that we'll be going in, but instead he crosses towards the sea loch, and there below the road, poking out of an old dry-stone wall, is a cluster of chanterelles.
The Americans ran in total rout from the field, leaping over the stone walls off Lexington Green.
Although it is luxurious, Philip Geoghegan insists it still has an agricultural feel about it, due in part to the original crossbeams and the rough stone walls limewashed by Richard Murphy, a heritage paint expert.
In the north of England they have discovered holes in stone walls as satisfactory nesting places. Times, Sunday Times
She leaned her bike against the stone wall and stood on tiptoe to peer over it.
Stone walls with fragile mortars can be damaged by high pressure sprays and the chemicals used.
There are infinite of these subtle trifles, and others more subtle than these, of notions, relations, instants, formalities, quiddities, haecceities, which no one can perceive without a Lynceus whose eyes could look through a stone wall and discover those things through the thickest darkness that never were. In Praise of Folly
A length of outside stone wall has been dated back to pre-1066.
A short walk out of the centre brings you to the cool stone walls of the cloistered courtyard, a welcome oasis of calm away from the busy city streets.
The flowers made a mass of colour against the stone wall.
The numbers were smaller over the two magic days of 2007, when I saw only one ring ouzel and that single redstart, but the island was still strewn with birds: there were thrushes all up the cliffs, robins along the stone walls. A Year on the Wing
The villas sleep six in three bedrooms and the interiors are a beautiful blend of original stone walls, oak beams and large fireplaces with contemporary furniture. Times, Sunday Times
He said the result of the tipping was that ‘the land becomes increasingly elevated above the adjoining fields and dry stone walls’.
With its thick, stone wall to our right and a steep drop to our left, we didn't dare take our eyes off the narrow path for long.
These terraces consist of a series of stone walls cascading down the side of steep slopes to keep small garden strips from being washed away.
Runoff from countless storms has worn the 50-to 60-foot-tall pink sandstone walls smooth, fluting some of its sections.
The lane squeezes tight between dry-stone walls, big green views billow away to the north and there are bijou meadows soaked with buttercups as tall as daffodils.
Boston Ivy can easily climb tree bark, wooden fences, concrete masonry, and brick or stone walls.
Cold, aching, and exhausted I swam in past the unscalable hulls of the ships toward the stone wall of the quay.
His chambers were as I remembered them, from the round stone altar table that sat opposite the entry door, neatly arranged with candles, a bell, his athame, and various other ritual items; to the stacked stone walls and leather seating in-the-round with two plush, armed seats across from each other and two armless semicircular couches. Arcane Circle
Armies of gilded statuettes of saintly figures adorned little notches in the chiselled stone walls and framed iconographic pictures hung from any spaces which weren't already occupied.
From the intime bar in the back, set off with stone walls and lights that would look at home on "Mad Men," flow some sublime cocktails. Tom Sietsema on the Atlas Room: Two-chef restaurant lives up to name
The Iron Age dyke near the finish has a drystone wall over it.
But the stone walls keep the farmer's cows from joining his neighbor's cows.
Forty or fifty feet before it lay the broken remains of a section of stone wall that had been erected there, possibly as a target.
All this, together with the stone walls, recalls a Victorian conservatory or orangery rather than a conventional museum, and is only possible because most sculpture, unlike paintings, is not vulnerable to light.
They were to be created from local limestone, sandstone and gritstone and each cairn was to feature a spiral design of dry stone walls emanating outwards.
There were photographs stuck to the stone wall, packages with letters, coins, tatters of cloth.
The works will include restoration of dry-stone walling; tree planting; building of stiles; regeneration of woodland and turning a disused quarry into an amenity area.
She seized the doll and dashed it against the stone wall with tremendous force.
Parks with elegant stone walls were covered with graffiti.
The child opened the heavy door for him, and he looked into a poor mountain grotto, with bare stone walls. The Girl from the Marsh Croft
He built the garage and stone walls around the house. Times, Sunday Times
Natural New Jersey sandstone walls, some dry-laid and others mortared, frame the plantings.
They approached a blank stone wall and the lad touched certain buttons upon the contraption he wore on his wrist.
In the east of the island there are two ruined cottages, a disused graveyard and the site of a cross and oratory plus several drystone walled fields once used for tillage.
Even after the site was scavenged by locals, tons of debris and some sections of the lower-story sandstone walls remained above ground.
The stone wall at the front still came up to my waist, and you could still sit down and run your hand over the thistled, clovered grass that ran right up to the edge. Weight of the World
The garden, reflecting the Elizabethan fashion, has four courtyards enclosed by high sandstone walls.
In the north of England they have discovered holes in stone walls as satisfactory nesting places. Times, Sunday Times
The light wavered unsteadily against the cold stone walls, threatening to diminish.
Buttermilk Lane is like a natural echo chamber, taking my crazy chords and loopy lines and reverberating them around from stone wall to shuttered window.
The metal rungs creaked and groaned as she put her weight on them, but held firm against the stone wall.
The scrubland has around a dozen olive trees surrounded by a low stone wall. The Sun
The immediate terrain is straightforward - large sheep pastures with gritstone walls.
Placing one hand on the cold stone wall for guidance, she plunged forward.
The site is bounded by natural limestone walls.
Materials such as dry stone walls and non-varnished timber cladding will be used to give a natural look and feel to the building, which takes full advantage of the exceptional site.
The building strongly reminded me of a medieval castle, complete with turrets and towers, and the gray stone walls practically breathed history.
In my own garden I have an old stone wall with remnants of whitewash that reflects the sunlight and heat in summer.
The villas sleep six in three bedrooms and the interiors are a beautiful blend of original stone walls, oak beams and large fireplaces with contemporary furniture. Times, Sunday Times
Hunger breaks stone walls.
When it was completed, this counterwork consisted of a solid stone wall, crowned with wooden towers, and defended in front by a palisade. Stories from Thucydides
The front of the house is true Baker - stone walls, palladian windows, a tall oriel window, an Italian staircase leading onto a three-arched verandah with the balcony above.
This allowed disaster relief experts to construct a new stone wall to reinforce the dam.
But homes today don't normally feature ramparts, drawbridges, moats and six-foot thick stone walls to keep out unwanted visitors.
Rich scarlet carpets covered the floor, and the high stone walls were hung with gorgeous tapestries embroidered with gold thread on satin and silk of every colour in the spectrum.
They had been walking along a narrow lane, bounded by stone walls. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
Domestic buildings in the Spanish colonial style are usually built of thick stone walls covered with stucco.
Old City, bounded by stone walls which once formed part of a fortress, is divided into four quarters, Armenian, Christian, Jewish and Muslim.
The runic patterns of the drystone walls seemed to stand out in relief as the light faded. AFTERMATH
Furious, she slammed her fist against a near redstone wall, and immediately regretted it.
Behind stone walls dripping with clematis, a crabapple's toss away from what he called a "muddle" of windblown daisies, beneath the dappled shade of a weeping beech tree, a ruddy-cheeked Englishman, dressed in a gently rumpled olive suit, sat with a sketch pad spread across his lap. The Seattle Times
Over the years he constructed some magnificent stone walls around the county which bear testament to his gifted craftsmanship in hard landscaping.
Armies of gilded statuettes of saintly figures adorned little notches in the chiselled stone walls and framed iconographic pictures hung from any spaces which weren't already occupied.
Dancing shadows cast by the flickering firelight struck the newly risen stone walls and foundation of the main lodge looming above the fire pit, sheltering the flames from steady northerlies. Genellan- Planetfall
During her first week, she'd bolted it to the stone wall herself. CHAMELEON
The path we followed was merely a space between two stone walls, dank and lightless.
Then, when its blackened freestone walls were repainted white to hide the traces of the fire, it was rechristened “The White House”. Inside the White House | Edwardian Promenade
She seized the doll and dashed it against the stone wall with tremendous force.
The sumptuous rooms have exposed stone walls. Times, Sunday Times
When the Depression struck in 1929, and especially after Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal began trying to meliorate its effects, reformers hit a stone wall of conservatism on the high court.
Around every corner lies another close, another lane, the bright sun throwing the rough stone walls into relief.
There were stone walls with cactus plants on top of them on the steeplechase course. Times, Sunday Times
Set within five acres of orchard and boasting battlements, parapet walkway, Great Hall and thick stone walls, the tower is perched above Crossford in the beautiful Clyde Valley.
Eat on the splendid terrace under the branches of plane, chestnut, maple, and acacia trees; the low stone walls are dressed with impatiens and hydrangeas (and the peonies were blooming in March).
Ashen threw his hands in the air and then retired to a stone wall, leaning against it.
What do you call a headless, legless girl on a stone wall? Here comes the bri...AAAAUUGGHHH!!!
She plants tender climbing vines such as wisteria and sweet peas so they can cling to the warm stone walls.
Armies of gilded statuettes of saintly figures adorned little notches in the chiselled stone walls and framed iconographic pictures hung from any spaces which weren't already occupied.
Beads of murky water dripped down stone walls blackened by grime, and the floor was cold gray stone.
Two seconds later, a loud noise sounded as the chicken bone clattered off of the stone wall and onto the floor.
You could see some of the original stone walls on the inside. Times, Sunday Times
Expect exposed beams, stone walls and painted floorboards in the four bedrooms. Times, Sunday Times
The area grew and prospered during the Industrial Revolution, but it's now an oasis of green calm, where canals and rivers meander through hills dotted with sheep and dry-stone walls.
The sheltered space with its stone wall and paving offers small recesses with seats, and some carved stone tablets from the old building have been re-used, preserving its memory.
This is a place to escape to, where you can sleep surrounded by whitewashed stone walls and lush gardens. Times, Sunday Times
There's no noise from the street, and rarely a breeze, so their strange noises and chatter ping off the stone walls and right through my window.
He built the garage and stone walls around the house. Times, Sunday Times
Large rocks or a stone wall make great basking spots for these cold-blooded insects.
It's been done out rather stylishly, but still feels rustic, with original limewashed stone walls, and the stalls and hay rack are still there.
The sun reflected dully off the stone walls.
Her sunlit profile blends with the fake lime-stone wall behind her.
Stone walls are left exposed or clad with broad wooden planks and painted white. Times, Sunday Times
Beyond this garden, abrupt, there was a grey stone wall overgrown with velvet moss that uprose as, gazing, Matthew stood long, all mazed and blinking, to see this place so eerie and fair.
While the countryside is beautiful with its dry stone walls, i.e. without mortar, the ground becomes stonier too. Out of Ireland (3)
He twists his tall, wiry frame and points downstream to where the roiling current is slamming into a stone wall.
On one side, a stone wall has been fully exposed and the white wooden flooring has a limed wash finish.
With a sunny south-facing aspect, the demesne, which includes mature deciduous trees and a lake, is shielded from the road by a high cut-stone wall.
The numbers were smaller over the two magic days of 2007, when I saw only one ring ouzel and that single redstart, but the island was still strewn with birds: there were thrushes all up the cliffs, robins along the stone walls. A Year on the Wing
a stone wall trails raggedly through the woods
There's a wood fire, exposed stone walls and scuffed wood floors. Times, Sunday Times
[Footnote: The inner ward, or ballium, which (according to Quinault) was defended by ten towers, connected by an embattled stone wall about thirty feet in height and eight feet thick, on the summit of which was a footway; now demolished to make way for the famous gardens.] Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes
A walkway from the street, set off from the sidewalk by a stone wall, led to a side entrance.
He drilled a hole in a stone wall.
The post and wire fence at the end of the road needed attention - in the long term, a hedge, wooden paling or stone wall would be attractive if a replacement is considered.
The red door clashed with the soft, natural tones of the stone walls.
Being an Islam nation crossing over the Eurasia, Turkey has positively applied to join Europe Union for many years, hut runs up against a stone wall time and again.
This is a place to escape to, where you can sleep surrounded by whitewashed stone walls and lush gardens. Times, Sunday Times
I climbed the stone wall beside, glanced at the water — very trouty water indeed — glanced at the hill-pasture above — very arbutusy indeed — laid down my rod and my trout and my box, and ran up the low bank to a clump of bay and berry-bushes that I thought I remembered. More Jonathan Papers
This allowed disaster relief experts to construct a new stone wall to reinforce the dam.
The property is a converted farmhouse with thick stone walls and oak beams. Times, Sunday Times
Hunger breaks stone walls.
I roamed around archways leading nowhere and windows framed by stone walls standing in isolation.
My only request to drystone wallers is, when rebuilding, please leave a little more gap in the squeezer stiles, the sheep can't be so thin hereabouts, and walkers less sylph-like than my navigator might get their thighs wedged.
The smooth stone walls of the place were covered in runes and Glyphs.
Stone walls are left exposed or clad with broad wooden planks and painted white. Times, Sunday Times
There's a wood fire, exposed stone walls and scuffed wood floors. Times, Sunday Times
You could see some of the original stone walls on the inside. Times, Sunday Times
She plants tender climbing vines such as wisteria and sweet peas so they can cling to the warm stone walls.
Backed up against the old stone wall, the building adjoins the main house and faces south across a newly planted garden.
The red door clashed with the soft, natural tones of the stone walls.
She seized the doll and dashed it against the stone wall with tremendous force.
She planted a rare vine against the stone wall near the back of her yard. Christianity Today
The new home was inside a loosely built stone wall, far safer than the old one.
As one juror remarked, this space, with its stone walls, beamed ceiling, and antique maple chopping block, brings a South American estancia to mind.
The tiny windows in the sides of the tower were proportioned to make it look as if it were twice the size it actually was, and since the stone walls were a handspan thick, they let in very little light. Widows and Orphans
Here, you can find traces of human residences, including a neglected paddy field, collapsed stone walls, and broken nickel silverware and brazen kitchenware.
There was a low, long building on the far side of the lot and beyond it a high stone wall.
At about noon, the city loomed before, the big black stone walls making a sharp contrast against the clear blue of the sky.
The property is a converted farmhouse with thick stone walls and oak beams. Times, Sunday Times
Then came a waste of bog and boulders, and then a long, neat stone wall, well coped with unhewn stone, which announced the vicinity of Father M'Fadden's house, quite the best structure in the place after the chapel and the hotel. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)
The estate is surrounded by high stone walls.
The diagrams demonstrate the great variety and uses for stone wall copings.
Pinks bring quality to dry-stone walls and rockeries. Times, Sunday Times
An 18th century drover's inn with bags of original character, it has big stone fireplaces which blaze with logs in winter, timbered ceilings and immensely thick stone walls.
Last week stonemasons were working on the surrounding drystone walls in preparation for the unveiling.
Inside the bounding ditch might be a paling fence, or a live hedge, or a stone wall.
‘Nothing looks worse than the wrong material in the wrong place, say a yellow sandstone wall in a limestone area,’ he says.
Hydrostatic pressure can build up behind a stone wall if there is inadequate drainage at the base.
He battered his head against the stone wall.
It looked more like a castle than a railhead, with solid stone walls pierced by tiny loopholes.
Does it not occur to these office-bound mandarins that many white and middle class people balk at being faced with fells, lakes and dry stone walls?
The tree is against a stone wall, in soil which is stony and south facing. Times, Sunday Times
This was a "facer"; the librarian seemed to have brought up against a stone wall, but she waited, knowing that a situation, unlike a knot, will sometimes untie itself. A Librarian's Open Shelf
This declivity runs between detached villas and stone walls, sheltering prim gardens, right on to the west end of the esplanade, which is, in fact, a continuation of it. The Man Who Lost Himself
Fireplaces and fieldstone walls accent each of the rooms, as well as the main dining area.
The complex of field systems and large stone walls extend from the north western slopes of Mount Brandon to within the boundaries of Dingle.
The courtyard, encased within high stone walls, is a suntrap, and the current owners, who live in the coach-house, make good use of the sheltered amenity.
A police spokesman said the car careered off the road and crashed into a small roadside stone wall before overturning.
The last couple of miles is an auto-pilot cruise back down the Nidderdale Way on a wide stone track with dry stone walls each side.
Several mortarless stone walls separated the property from the one next to it. American Legacy
Around the doors, carved into the stone walls and the flagstones at his feet, are a series of immense concentric circles.
Hunger breaks stone wall.
The black raspberry, which we called thimble berry, was found along the stone walls, but was not abundant. Confessions of Boyhood
He lost control of the car, striking a kerb, a stone wall and a telegraph pole.
It's been done out rather stylishly, but still feels rustic, with original limewashed stone walls, and the stalls and hay rack are still there.
The old actor could just as easily be any European but he is firmly located in the west of Ireland, with its distinctive dry-stone walls and vernacular shebeens in the middle distance.
Expect exposed beams, stone walls and painted floorboards in the four bedrooms. Times, Sunday Times
Old City, bounded by stone walls which once formed part of a fortress, is divided into four quarters.

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