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Example sentences for "standing stones"

  • It formed a prominent and beautiful object in that noble demesne, surrounded at its base with a circle of standing stones, and crowned on the summit with a large fir-tree.

  • Stornoway; noted for its circles of standing stones, from 10 to 17 ft.

  • In the little islet of Er Lannig are two cromlechs, or circles of standing stones; one is half submerged, and the other completely under water, even at low tides.

  • Here is an allĂ©e couverte, here is also a cromlech, or circle of standing stones.

  • The cromlech according to the signification accorded to it in France is a circle of standing stones.

  • The central is the greatest; two hundred thousand tons of stone heaped up, within a circular wall of stone, itself surrounded by a great outer circle of standing stones, thirty in number, like gray sentinels guarding the shrine.

  • The retreat of this foul-minded brood [the German Army] towards the Vesle will probably mean the doom of the celebrated Menhirs, or standing stones, of the Marne Valley.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    coarse cloth; could sing; establish schools; farre from; gift from; high standing; hollow sphere; little older; looking creature; made their; plain story; productive industry; pure light; she gazed; slavery cause; standing armies; standing before; standing committee; standing committees; standing erect; standing near; standing order; standing water; still living; unsound mind; usually supposed