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
In the first place, those bags of coin behind the rocking stone weighed on his mind.
From Pocket Island A Story of Country Life in New England by Charles Clark Munn
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 Sir James George Frazer
Then he went to the rocking stone, and pushing it back, took from the niche, one by one, the bags of coin.
From Pocket Island A Story of Country Life in New England by Charles Clark Munn
He doubled and sometimes trebled these, and the hoard of silver and gold behind the rocking stone grew rapidly.
From Pocket Island A Story of Country Life in New England by Charles Clark Munn
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