Example Sentences

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Lady Everington has been criticised for stony-heartedness, for opportunism, and for selfish abuse of her husband's vast wealth.

From Kimono by Paris, John

No one, whom I saw, exhibited any emotion at the strewn spectacles on every side, and the stories I had read of the stony-heartedness during the plague, were more than rivalled by these charnel realities.

From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by Townsend, George Alfred

They discuss the inconsistency of the parson, the stony-heartedness of the farmer, the behaviour of this young woman and that young man; and what better could they do? 

From Catharine Furze by Rutherford, Mark

She told him of the stony-heartedness of music-publishers, of the difficulty of getting songs printed unless you paid for them, of their wretched sales.

From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)