flagstones

By the flagstones was a garden that was deep in the shadow of poplars.

Stallion Gate Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1986

The names are almost disappearing from the flagstones, which is why it is being restored.

Desicritics 2010

Hidden beneath the flagstones was a considerable quantity - many tons - of a pure white powder.

Grandinite 2008

The moment that the entire circumference of the circle touched the floor, the flagstones within it vanished, showing a patch of windblown sand.

GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

The charr rolled away just as the beast crashed down, driving flagstones deeper into the ground.

GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

Since its width is the same for the central portion as for the sides, the line of shadow cast by the column extends precisely to the corner of the house; but it stops there, for only the veranda flagstones are reached by the sun, which is still too high in the sky.

Translated Texts 2010

And it is a particularly literal-minded kind of description: no fussy, unnecessary adjectives, no figurative flourishes to get in the way of a full-on apprehension of the house and its wooden walls, its veranda flagstones and "vertical surfaces."

Translated Texts 2010

I heard the door of our croft scrape shut across the summer warmed flagstones, then one of the men offer my mother a ride on his mount.

The premature ending of Annie MacLeod Gill Hoffs 2011

The beast was dead, but its momentum carried it forward so that Logan had to spin aside and let the hyena smash to the flagstones.

GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

The hyena wailed, scabrous claws skittering on broken flagstones.

GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011