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Definition of Stonily
1. Adverb. In a stony manner. "Stonily indifferent to time"
Definition of Stonily
1. adv. In a stony manner.
Definition of Stonily
1. Adverb. In a stony manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stonily
1. in a stony manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stonily
Literary usage of Stonily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1921)
"(She looks at him stonily) Immovable? So be it! (He turns to go. At this moment
a great yell of triumphant hatred goes up from the populace ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1870)
"Him from amid shore-weeds doth Minos' daughter, in anguish Rigid, a Bacchant-form,
dim-gazing stonily follow, stonily still, wave-tost on a sea of troublous ..."
3. The Leisure Hour edited by William Haig Miller, James Macaulay, William Stevens (1894)
"Him I "—The brown eyes looked right into the grey eyes, not stonily, because
brown eyes said, looking at the door. " We might go, I think. ..."
4. The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus, Robinson Ellis (1871)
"Him from amid shore-weeds doth Minos' daughter, in anguish 60 Rigid, a Bacchant-form,
dim-gazing stonily follow, stonily still, wave-tost on a sea of ..."
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