Meaning of stonebound | Babel Free

Definitions

Bounded by stone.

not-comparable

Examples

“OUR hapless heroine—who in such a few short hours was plunged from the splendour and magnificence of a baronial castle to the depths of a stonebound dungeon and tortures, whose spotless mind⟳ knew nought of the cause of men’s unholy passions, whose dreams of love⟳ were such as floated round the angels’ bed, whose sighs arose from as pure a source as the breath that angels breathe⟳,—had now learnt to understand⟳ the book of life with all its repugnant secrets.”

“To the west lay⟳ the great basin of the Nile, a stonebound, godless waste⟳, scarce redeemed by wide-spreading acacias and the green-streaked courses of innumerable streamlets that oozed from the sun-baked hills and struggled through the dancing heat of the lowlands to join⟳ the Nile.”

“Austere, foreboding, it rises on a stonebound table over a tributary of the Loire.”

“The desolate images of rocks, of “stonebound suffering,” are every now and then juxtaposed with messages of inspiration like⟳ those of the epiphany of light⟳ in the lemon trees, of the re-creation of the winter wonderland of childhood, and of the sunflower, “crazed with light⟳,” which can be found where “life evaporates as essence.””

“We crossed a stream you couldn’t see⟳ from the road, feet drumming the floorboards of the wooden bridge to send⟳ a heartbeat through the mute village of stonebound, narrow lanes.”

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