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  • If one of the first signs of ageing is being irritated by the young, I'd transformed into the ultimate short-fused, stony-eyed Methuselah.

    It's all too easy to hate teens – try a little love instead | Barbara Ellen 2011

  • There was no sign of Lachesis and Clotho, but Atropos was writing at the table, and Annette was on hand, stony-eyed but mighty jimp in a gown that seemed to consist of flowers and gauze.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Kids hush their playful chatter and watch you stony-eyed, and good-looking young men wearing combats and carrying footballs step aside mistrustingly.

    The One Where She's Not Mismatched kisobel 2007

  • Rome finally fell to the Allies on June 3, and around that time Tompkins was able to make his way to Allied lines: The GIs, still stony-eyed from action, dusty and tired, not altogether conscious of the fact that they were the first Allied soldiers ever to occupy the heart of Rome, lay in their blankets on the hoods of the half-tracks, or gazed in a friendly way at the excited paisanos.

    Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004

  • Rome finally fell to the Allies on June 3, and around that time Tompkins was able to make his way to Allied lines: The GIs, still stony-eyed from action, dusty and tired, not altogether conscious of the fact that they were the first Allied soldiers ever to occupy the heart of Rome, lay in their blankets on the hoods of the half-tracks, or gazed in a friendly way at the excited paisanos.

    Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004

  • Rome finally fell to the Allies on June 3, and around that time Tompkins was able to make his way to Allied lines: The GIs, still stony-eyed from action, dusty and tired, not altogether conscious of the fact that they were the first Allied soldiers ever to occupy the heart of Rome, lay in their blankets on the hoods of the half-tracks, or gazed in a friendly way at the excited paisanos.

    Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004

  • Rome finally fell to the Allies on June 3, and around that time Tompkins was able to make his way to Allied lines: The GIs, still stony-eyed from action, dusty and tired, not altogether conscious of the fact that they were the first Allied soldiers ever to occupy the heart of Rome, lay in their blankets on the hoods of the half-tracks, or gazed in a friendly way at the excited paisanos.

    Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004

  • THIS WAS A NIGHTMARE, Natalie thought, as she gazed at the stony-eyed detectives intent on interrogating her again.

    A Man Of Secrets Stevens, Amanda 1997

  • There was no sign of Lachesis and Clotho, but Atropos was writing at the table, and Annette was on hand, stony-eyed but mighty jimp in a gown that seemed to consist of flowers and gauze.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • There was no sign of Lachesis and Clotho, but Atropos was writing at the table, and Annette was on hand, stony-eyed but mighty jimp in a gown that seemed to consist of flowers and gauze.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

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