Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pit or quarry where stones are dug.
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Examples
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It was the band of the Benefit Club, which had mustered in all its glory β that is to say, in bright-blue scarfs and blue favours, and carrying its banner with the motto, βLet brotherly love continue,β encircling a picture of a stone-pit.
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Kenkenes picked his way through the debris of sticks, stones, dust and cast-off water-skins, and serenely disregarding the stare of the laborers, went up to the edge of the stone-pit and watched the work with interest.
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"In the early years of this century, such a linen weaver, named Silas Marner, worked at his vocation, in a stone cottage that stood among the nutty hedgerows near the village of Raveloe, and not far from the edge of a deserted stone-pit."
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Peering down into the stone-pit, Dante then timidly proffers his request, only to be hotly reviled by Pope Nicholas III, who first mistakes his interlocutor for Pope Boniface, and confesses he was brought to this state by nepotism.
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In the night they took Harrison's money and 'tumbled me down a stone-pit.'
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They could have left him in the 'stone-pit:' he knew not who they were, and the longer they rode by daylight, with a hatless, handcuffed, and sorely wounded prisoner, his pockets overburdened with gold, the more risk of detection they ran.
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Therefore, as soon as our Bob had descended into the gray stone-pit, in which his dear father must have breathed his last, I took good care to be out of sight, after observing that he sat down exactly as his father must have sat, except that his attitude, of course, was sad, and his face pale and reproachful.
George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore
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In the early years of this century, such a linen-weaver, named Silas Marner, worked at his vocation in a stone cottage that stood among the nutty hedgerows near the village of Raveloe, and not far from the edge of a deserted stone-pit.
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Marner, worked at his vocation in a stone cottage that stood among the nutty hedgerows near the village of Raveloe, and not far from the edge of a deserted stone-pit.
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It was found in the process of enlarging a stone-pit in the parish of Castle Bytham.
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