rocking stone
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rocking stone
First recorded in 1730–40
Example Sentences
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"That's all we've got" He leaned his spear against the rocking stone and pushed back two handfuls of hair.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
That's the way it was with the rocking stone.
From The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City by Hope, Laura Lee
In this island cave nature had placed a curiosity, known as a rocking stone.
From Pocket Island A Story of Country Life in New England by Munn, Charles Clark
Near the tree is a rocking stone, which the ghosts set in motion, and the sound that they make in so doing is like the muffled roll of a drum.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir
In Bronx Park in New York the "rocking stone" always attracts attention.
From Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place by Rogers, Julia Ellen
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