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paving stone
noun
- a concrete or stone slab for paving
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Tha are verry tuff ov life, and will outlive an injun rubber shoe, and don't seem tew gro old enny faster than a paving stone duz.
In case of a row, a paving-stone in trouser-pocket is worth a Krupp's Battery in the bush.
Don't you know what happens if you lay a heavy weight, such as a big paving-stone, on the ground?
At every step he crushed a flint, or split a contractor's paving-stone, and an asphalt walk was a quagmire to him.
A sheet of wet paper would afford as much resistance to a paving-stone as the walls of a steamboat cabin to a six-pound shot.
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