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The funnier I tried to be, the stodgier and stiffer and stonier and duller they became.

The Secret of Writing Funny | Write to Done 2008

Indeed his initial diagnosis of the cause of England's travails, the players 'exhaustion, though valid, appears to have been sugar-coated for precisely that audience, but his later pronouncements on technical flaws and insufficient mental rigour may fall on stonier ground in the dressing room.

Cornered Fabio Capello knows precisely how to square the circle 2010

While the countryside is beautiful with its dry stone walls, i.e. without mortar, the ground becomes stonier too.

Out of Ireland (3) 2009

The further north you go (Clare, Galway, Sligo, or westwards towards Kerry) the land becomes stonier and less suitable for multipurpose agriculture.

Out of Ireland (3) 2009

Drier, stonier slopes in poorer forest are the only places where lianas are common.

Lesser Sundas deciduous forests 2008

The lynx (Lynx lynx), one of the largest wild cats in Eurasia, resides mainly in the foothills of the stonier mountains.

Kuhrud-Kohbanan Mountains forest steppe 2008

I watched anxiously for the water signs that Sergeant Duril had taught me - a line of trees, a depression where the plants were thick and greener than usual or animal tracks converging - but I saw only that the land was becoming more barren and even stonier.

Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005

Beyond these rose a further wall of mountain, the lower heights still overgrown with beautiful grass and plants, above which were stonier slopes, covered only with scrub, that led gradually up to the steep, bare rocky summits.

Heidi 2000

Her eyes were a gray even stonier than her hair, and, under the green silk shirt, the brushed gray leather trousers and vest, she seemed whipcord-thin.

The Death of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1995

The one growing ever stonier, the other ever more bewildered, Pompey and Cicero left the villa to gather its silence fast around it, and stood outside on the Via Nomentana looking both ways.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991