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He remembered the day when the little boy had stoned him away from the nest of O-pee-chee the Robin.

From The Magic Speech Flower or Little Luke and His Animal Friends by Hix, Melvin

When she measured the raisins which Ephraim had stoned she cast a sharp glance at him, but he was ready for it with beseechingly upturned sickly face.

From Pembroke A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

The men who had come near to killing M. de Gontaut, who had stoned M. de St. Alais, quailed before a woman!

From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John

By nine o'clock they had filled four baskets and had stoned more than half, and laid them in a shallow pan with sugar over them "to draw", as Grizzel explained.

From The Happy Adventurers by Middleton, Lydia Miller

Once I had stoned the steps as usual, but the madam grew angry as soon as she saw them.

From Thirty Years a Slave by Hughes, Louis